[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 902-903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-424]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

[Document Identifier: CMS-R-283]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services (CMS) (formerly known as the Health Care Financing 
Administration (HCFA)), Department of Health and Human Services, is 
publishing the following summary of proposed

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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: Market Survey of 
Fraud, Waste and Abuse Detection Software; Form No.: CMS-R-0283 (OMB# 
0938-0783); Use: This information collection tool is essential to 
providing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a 
vehicle to ascertain cutting edge fraud, waste, and abuse detection 
products. CMS and its contractors presently use a number of these 
tools, as do other segments of government, the health care industry, 
and industry generally. New products taking advantage of new 
technologies are in continuous development. This completely voluntary 
survey will ensure that CMS is vigilant in identifying new advances to 
help fight the scourge of Medicare fraud and abuse; Frequency: 
Annually; Affected Public: Business or other for profit, and Not for 
profit institutions; Number of Respondents: 200; Total Annual 
Responses: 250; Total Annual Hours: 500.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access CMS'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 CMS 
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 CMS Paperwork Clearance 
Officer designated at the following address: CMS, Office of Information 
Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of CMS Enterprise 
Standards, Attention: Julie Brown, CMS 10001, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: December 20, 2001.
Julie Brown,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Security and Standards Group, 
Division of CMS Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 02-424 Filed 1-7-02; 8:45 am]
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