[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 155 (Thursday, August 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 44030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20915]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-0283]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Comment request.
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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: New collection; Title of
Information Collection: Market Survey of Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Detection Software; Form No.: HCFA-R-0283 (OMB# 0938-new); Use: This
information collection tool is essential to providing the Health Care
Financing Administration (HCFA) a vehicle to ascertain cutting edge
fraud, waste, and abuse detection products. HCFA 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 HCFA 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: 400; Total Annual Responses: 450; Total Annual Hours:
1,350.
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: Louis Blank, Room N2-14-26, 7500
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.
Dated: July 29, 1999.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services,
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-20915 Filed 8-11-99; 8:45 am]
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