[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 108 (Monday, June 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 30340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14318]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-65]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    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, has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following 
proposal for the collection of information. Interested persons are 
invited to send comments regarding the 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: Information Collection 
Requirements in Final Peer Review Organization Sanction Regulations 42 
CFR 1004.40, 1004.50, 1004.60, and 1004.70;
    Form No.: HCFA-R-65 (OMB# 0938-0444);
    Use: The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 amended Title XI of 
the Social Security Act to create the Utilization and Quality Control 
Peer Review Organization (PRO) program. The PRO program replaced the 
existing Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO) program and 
streamlined peer review activities. PROs will ensure that care provided 
to Medicare patients is reasonable, medically necessary, appropriate, 
of a quality that meets professionally recognized standards of care, 
and that inpatient services could not be more appropriately provided on 
an outpatient basis or in a different type facility;
    Frequency: On occasion;
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions, and Business or other 
for-profit;
    Number of Respondents: 53;
    Total Annual Responses: 1,060;
    Total Annual Hours: 22,684.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement 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 and phone number, 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 30 days of this notice directly to the OMB Desk Officer 
designated at the following address: OMB Human Resources and Housing 
Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: May 6, 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. 99-14318 Filed 6-4-99; 8:45 am]
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