2024-09745. Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information (including each proposed extension or reinstatement of an existing collection of information) and to allow 60 days for public comment on the proposed action. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding our burden estimates or any other aspect of this collection of information, including the necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of the agency's functions, the accuracy of the estimated burden, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected, and the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize the information collection burden.

DATES:

Comments must be received by July 5, 2024.

ADDRESSES:

When commenting, please reference the document identifier or OMB control number. To be assured consideration, comments and recommendations must be submitted in any one of the following ways:

1. Electronically. You may send your comments electronically to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for “Comment or Submission” or “More Search Options” to find the information collection document(s) that are accepting comments.

2. By regular mail. You may mail written comments to the following address: CMS, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs, Division of Regulations Development, Attention: Document Identifier/OMB Control Number: __, Room C4-26-05, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

To obtain copies of a supporting statement and any related forms for the proposed collection(s) summarized in this notice, please access the CMS PRA website by copying and pasting the following web address into your web browser: https://www.cms.gov/​Regulations-and-Guidance/​Legislation/​PaperworkReductionActof1995/​PRA-Listing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William N. Parham at [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Contents

This notice sets out a summary of the use and burden associated with the following information collections. More detailed information can be found in each collection's supporting statement and associated materials (see ADDRESSES ).

CMS-10054 New Technology Services for Ambulatory Payment Classifications under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System

Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. The term “collection of information” is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and includes agency requests or requirements that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA requires Federal agencies to publish a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension or reinstatement of an existing collection of information, before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, CMS is publishing this notice.

Information Collection

1. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection; Title of Information Collection: New Technology Services for Ambulatory Payment Classifications Under Outpatient Prospective Payment System; Use: In the April 7, 2000 final rule with comment period first implementing the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), we created a set of New Technology ambulatory payment classifications (APCs) to pay for certain new technology services under the OPPS. These APCs are intended to pay for new technology services that were not covered by the transitional pass-through payments provisions authorized by the Balanced Budget Refinement Act (BBRA) of 1999.

Since implementation of the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) on August 1, 2000, transitional pass-through payments have been made to hospitals for certain drugs, biologicals, and medical devices. These are temporary additional payments required by section 1833(t)(6) of the Social Security Act (the Act), which was added by section 201(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1999 (BBRA). The law required the Secretary to make these additional payments to hospitals for at least 2 but no more than 3 years.

In the April 7, 2000 final rule with comment period, we specified an application process and the information that must be supplied for us to consider a request for payment under the New Technology APCs (65 FR 18478). We posted the application process on our website at www.cms.hhs.gov. Services were only considered eligible for assignment to a New Technology APC if we listed them in one of a number of lists published in Medicare Program Memoranda, which are posted to our website ( https://www.cms.gov/​medicare/​regulations-guidance/​transmittals/​cms-program-memoranda). We established a quarterly application process by which interested parties could submit applications to us for particular services. We assign new services to the New Technology APCs that we determine cannot be placed appropriately in clinical APCs. Under our current policy, we retain services in a New Technology APC until we gain sufficient information about actual hospital costs incurred to furnish a new technology service. Form Number: CMS-10054 (OMB control number: 0938-0860); Frequency: Once; Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for-profit; Number of Respondents: 25; Number of Responses: 25; Total Annual Hours: 400. (For policy questions regarding this collection contact Josh Mcfeeters at 410-786-9732.)

William N. Parham, III,

Director, Division of Information Collections and Regulatory Impacts, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs.