Emergency Clearance: Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

Emergency Clearance: Public Information Collection Requirements

Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration.

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 (DHHS),

has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the

following requirement for Emergency review. We are requesting an

emergency review because the collection of this information is needed

prior to the expiration of the normal time limits under OMB's

regulations at 5 CFR Part 1320, in order to prevent hospitals from

inappropriately transferring individuals with emergency medical

conditions, as mandated by Congress. The Agency cannot reasonably

comply with the normal clearance procedures because public harm is

likely to result if normal clearance procedures are followed. Without

this information, HCFA could not assure compliance with this

Congressional mandate.

HCFA is requesting that OMB provide a two-day review and a 90-day

approval. During this 90-day period HCFA will publish a separate

Federal Register notice announcing the initiation of an extensive 60-

day agency review and public comment period on these requirements. Then

HCFA will submit the requirements for OMB review and an extension of

this emergency approval.

Type of Information Collection Request: Emergency (This is an

identical package to the one that was approved in January, 1995. This

is not a new package.); Title of Information Collection: Information

Collection Requirements Contained in BPD-393, Examination and Treatment

for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor; Form No.: HCFA-R-

142; Use: BPD-393 contains information collection requirements for

hospitals that would seek to prevent them from inappropriately

transferring individuals with emergency medical conditions, as mandated

by Congress. HCFA will use this information to help assure compliance

with this mandate. This information is not contained elsewhere in

regulations. Frequency: On occasion; Affected Public: Individuals or

households, not-for-profit institutions, Federal Government, and State,

local or tribal government; Number of

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Respondents: 7,000; Total Annual Responses: 7,000; Total Annual Hours

Requested: 8,818,577.

To request copies of the proposed paperwork collections referenced

above, call the Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. Written

comments and recommendations for the proposed information collections

should be sent within 2 working days of this notice directly to the OMB

Desk Officer designated at the following address: OMB Human Resources

and Housing Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive Office

Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: January 25, 1996.

Kathleen B. Larson,

Director, Management Planning and Analysis Staff, Office of Financial

and Human Resources, Health Care Financing Administration.

[FR Doc. 96-2124 Filed 1-31-96; 8:45 am]

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