[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65860-65861]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28171]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-0209 and HCFA-R-0245]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.
    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.
    1. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Medicare and 
Medicaid Programs: Reporting Outcome and Assessment Information Set 
(OASIS) Data as Part of the Conditions of Participation for Home Health 
Agencies and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 484.11 and 484.20; Form 
No.: HCFA-R-0209 (OMB# 0938-0761); Use: The information collection 
requirements contained in the regulations state that HHAs must report 
data from the OASIS data set as a condition of participation for HHAs. 
Specifically, they provide guidelines for HHAs for the electronic 
transmission of the OASIS data set as well as responsibilities of the 
State agency or OASIS contractor in collecting and transmitting this 
information to HCFA. These requirements are necessary to establish a 
prospective payment system for HHAs and to achieve broad-based, 
measurable improvement in the quality of care furnished through Federal 
programs; Frequency: As determined by HHA and monthly; Affected Public: 
Business or other for profit, Not for profit institutions, and State, 
Local, or Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 7,500; Total Annual 
Responses: 7,500; Total Annual Hours: 911,313.
    2. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Medicare and 
Medicaid Programs: Use of Outcome and Assessment Information Set 
(OASIS) as Part of the Conditions of Participation for Home Health 
Agencies and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 484.55; Form No.: HCFA-R-
0245 (OMB# 0938-0760); Use: These information collection requirements 
are part of the existing conditions of participation that home health 
agencies (HHAs) must meet to participate in the Medicare program. 
Specifically, each patient must receive from the HHA a patient-
specific, comprehensive assessment that identifies the patient's need 
for home care and that meets the patient's medical, nursing, 
rehabilitative, social and discharge planning needs. In addition, the 
regulation requires that, as part of the comprehensive assessment, HHAs 
use a standard core assessment data set, the OASIS, when evaluating 
adult, non-maternity patients. These changes are an integral part of 
the Administration's efforts to achieve broad-based improvements in the 
quality of care furnished through Federal programs and in the 
measurement of that care; Frequency: Upon patient assessment; Affected 
Public: Business or other for profit, Not for profit institutions, and 
State, Local, or Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 7,500; Total 
Annual Responses: 7,500; Total Annual Hours: 885,000.

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    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 [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: Julie Brown, Room N2-
14-26, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Date: October 24, 2000.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 00-28171 Filed 11-1-00; 8:45 am]
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