[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 69 (Monday, April 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17673-17674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8979]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-460]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration.

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Care Financing 
Administration (HCFA), Department of Health and Human Services, is 
publishing the following summary of proposed collections for public 
comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this 
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 
including any of the following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved collection;
    Title of Information Collection: Medicare Participating Physician 
or Supplier Agreement, HCFA-460;
    Form No.: HCFA-460 (OMB# 0938-0373);
    Use: The HCFA-460 is completed by nonparticipating physicians and

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supplier if they choose to participate in Medicare Part B. By signing 
the agreement, the physician or supplier agrees to take assignment on 
all Medicare claims. To take assignment means to accept the Medicare 
allowed amount as payment in full for the services they furnish and to 
charge the beneficiary no more than the deductible and coinsurance for 
the covered service. In exchange for signing the agreement, the 
physician or supplier receives a significant number of program benefits 
not available to nonparticipating physicians and suppliers. The 
information is needed to know to whom to provide these benefits.;
    Frequency: Once, unless re-enrolled;
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, and Individuals or 
Households;
    Number of Respondents: 45,000;
    Total Annual Responses: 45,000;
    Total Annual Hours: 11,250.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access HCFA's 
Web Site address at http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail 
your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and 
HCFA document identifier, to P[email protected], or call the Reports 
Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be mailed 
within 60 days of this notice directly to the HCFA Paperwork Clearance 
Officer designated at the following address: HCFA, Office of 
Information Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA 
Enterprise Standards, Attention: Dawn Willinghan, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: March 31, 1999.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-8979 Filed 4-9-99; 8:45 am]
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