[Federal Register: August 28, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 167)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
[Document Identifier: CMS-2552-96]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS.
In an effort to revise the current Hospital and Health Care Complex
Cost Report, we are interested in receiving public comments to help aid
in making the necessary revisions to this cost report. 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: Revision of a currently
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Hospital and
Health Care Complex Cost Report and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR
413.20 and 413.24; Form No.: CMS-2552-96 (OMB 0938-0050); Use: Form
CMS-2552-96 is the form used by hospitals participating in the Medicare
program. This form reports the health care costs used to determine the
amount of reimbursable costs for services rendered to Medicare
beneficiaries; Frequency: Annually; Affected Public: Businesses or
other for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions; and State, Local or
Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 6,038; Total Annual
Responses: 6,038; Total Annual Hours: 4,274,105.
To obtain a copy of the forms and related materials 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 Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. The revised ``Hospital and Health
Care Complex Cost Report'' will be available after the close of this
solicitation, at which time, we will publish a subsequent 60-day
Federal Register notice announcing the revisions and canvassing public
comment before submitting to OMB. Written comments and recommendations
for the solicitation 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: Dawn
Willinghan, CMS-2552-96, Room N2-14-26, 7500 Security Boulevard,
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.
Dated: August 21, 2001.
John P. Burke III,
CMS Reports Clearance Officer, CMS Office of Information Service,
Security and Standards Group, Division of CMS Enterprise Standards.
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