[Federal Register: June 4, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 107)]
[Notices]               
[Page 30042]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr04jn99-79]


[[Page 30042]]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-137]

 
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.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved collection.
    Title of Information Collection: Internal Revenue Service/Social 
Security Administration/Health Care Financing Administration Data Match 
and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR Section 411.20-411.206.
    Form No.: HCFA-R-137 (OMB# 0938-0565).
    Use: The purpose of this collection is to save the Medicare 
program, money. MSP is essentially the same concept known in the 
private insurance industry as coordination of benefits, and refers to 
those situations where Medicare assumes a secondary payer role (private 
insurance being the primary payer) for covered services provided to a 
Medicare beneficiary. It is HCFA's responsibility to implement the 
various Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Affected Public: Federal Government, Business or other for-profit, 
Not-for-profit institutions, Farms, State, and Local or Tribal 
Government.
    Number of Respondents: 276,251.
    Total Annual Responses: 276,251.
    Total Annual Hours: 1,051,722.
    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 Paperwork@hcfa.gov, 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: Dawn Willinghan, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: May 26, 1999.
John Parmigiani,
Manager, HCFA Office of Information Services, Security and Standards 
Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-14122 Filed 6-3-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4120-03-P