[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 10, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18645-18646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8728]


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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: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, DHHS.
    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

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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 section 484.20 state that HHAs must report 
data from the OASIS data set as a condition of participation for HHAs. 
Specifically, the above section provides 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: Monthly; Affected 
Public: Business or other for profit, Not for profit institutions, 
Federal Government, and State, Local, or Tribal Government; Number of 
Respondents: 7,100; Total Annual Responses: 85,200; Total Annual Hours: 
996,368.
    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 and 484.220; Form 
No.: HCFA-R-0245 (OMB# 0938-0760); Use: These information collection 
requirements in 42 CFR 484.55 and 484.220 require, as a condition of 
participation for home health agencies in the Medicare program, that 
each patient receive from the agency 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, they require that as part of the 
comprehensive assessment, agencies use a standard core assessment data 
set, the OASIS, when evaluating adult, non-maternity patients; 
Frequency: On patient assessment Affected Public: Business or other for 
profit, Not for profit institutions, Federal Government, and State, 
Local, or Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 7,100; Total Annual 
Responses: 9,510,900; Total Annual Hours: 10,454,100.
    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 30 days of this notice directly to the OMB desk officer: OMB 
Human Resources and Housing Branch, Attention: Wendy Taylor, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: March 19, 2001.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 01-8728 Filed 4-9-01; 8:45 am]
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