# Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** March 26, 1998
- **Citation:** 63 FR 14719

## Text

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-5]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request

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 the
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: Physician
Certification / Recertification in Skilled Nursing Facilities and
Supporting Regulations 42 CFR 424.20; Form No.: HCFA-R-5; Use: The
Medicare program requires as a condition of participation for Medicare
Part A payment for posthospital skilled nursing facility (SNF)
services, that a physician must certify and periodically recertify that
a beneficiary requires an SNF level of care. The physician
certification requirement is intended to ensure that the beneficiary's
need for services has been established and then reviewed and updated at
appropriate intervals. Frequency: On occasion; Affected Public:
Individuals or Households, Business or other for-profit, Not -for-
profit institutions, State, Local or Tribal Government; Number of
Respondents: 1,493,493; Total Annual Responses: 3; Total Annual Hours:
365,914.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement for the proposed
paperwork

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collections referenced above, or any related forms, E-mail your
request, including your address and phone number, to
P[email protected], 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, nformation Technology
Investment Management Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards,
Attention: John Rudolph, Room C2-26-17, 7500 Security Boulevard,
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

Dated: March 17, 1998.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards,
Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-7855 Filed 3-25-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4120-03-P

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