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(1) Identify, obtain, and organize sales information, prepare response: 30–70 hours 

(2) Identify, obtain, and organize information on advertising and marketing expenditures, prepare response: 50–130 hours 

(3) Identify, obtain, and organize placement information, prepare response: 240–560 hours 

(4) Identify, obtain, and organize information regarding compliance review, prepare response: 20–40 hours 

(5) Identify, obtain, and organize information regarding data collection, prepare 

response: 

20–40 hours 

The staff anticipates that the 

cumulative hours burden to respond to 

the information requests will be 

between 360 and 840 hours per 

company. Nonetheless, in order to be 

conservative, the staff estimates that the 

burden per company for each of up to 

fourteen intended recipients will be 840 

hours. Accordingly, the staff estimates a 

total burden for these companies of 

approximately 11,760 hours (14 

companies × 840 average burden hours 

per company). These estimates include 

any time spent by separately 

incorporated subsidiaries and other 

entities affiliated with the ultimate 

parent company that has received the 

information request. 

Estimated Cost Burden: $252,000. 

It is difficult to calculate with 

precision the labor costs associated with 

the information requests, as the costs 

entail varying compensation levels of 

management and/or support staff among 

companies of different sizes. Financial, 

legal, marketing, and clerical personnel 

may be involved in the information 

collection process. The staff has 

assumed that professional personnel 

and outside legal counsel will handle 

most of the tasks involved in gathering 

and producing responsive information, 

and has applied an average hourly wage 

of $300/hour for their labor. Thus, the 

staff estimates that the total labor costs 

per company will range between 

$108,000 ($300 × 360 hours) and 

$252,000 ($300 × 840 hours). 

The staff estimates that the capital or 

other non-labor costs associated with 

the information requests will be 

minimal. Although the information 

requests may necessitate that industry 

members maintain the requested 

information provided to the 

Commission, they should already have 

in place the means to compile and 

maintain business records. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; 

Recommendations Received From the 

HIT Policy Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology (ONC), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 3002(e) of the Public 

Health Service Act, as amended by the 

Health Information Technology for 

Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) 

Act, requires the National Coordinator 

for Health Information Technology to 

publish in the Federal Register and post 

on the internet all policy 

recommendations made by the HIT 

Policy Committee. 

Policy recommendations presented at 

the February 2, 2011 HIT Policy 

Committee meeting have been 

transmitted from the HIT Policy 

Committee to the National Coordinator 

and are available on the ONC Web site: 

http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/

community/healthit_hhs_gov__policy_

recommendations/1815. 

Dated: February 14, 2011. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Office of Programs and Coordination, Office 

of the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4290 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–2326–FN] 

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; 

Approval of the Joint Commission for 

Deeming Authority for Psychiatric 

Hospitals 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces our 

decision to approve the Joint 

Commission for recognition as a 

national accreditation program for 

psychiatric hospitals seeking to 

participate in the Medicare or Medicaid 

programs. This initial 4-year approval is 

effective February 25, 2011, through 

February 25, 2015. 

DATES: Effective Date: This final notice 

is effective February 25, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: L. 

Tyler Whitaker, (410) 786–5236; Patricia 

Chmielewski, (410) 786–6899. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Under the Medicare program, eligible 

beneficiaries may receive covered 

services in a psychiatric hospital 

provided certain requirements are met. 

Section 1861(f) of the Social Security 

Act (the Act) establishes distinct criteria 

for facilities seeking designation as a 

psychiatric hospital. The regulations at 

42 CFR part 482, subpart E specify, 

among other things, the conditions that 

a psychiatric hospital must meet to 

participate in the Medicare program. 

Regulations concerning provider 

agreements are located at 42 CFR part 

489 and those pertaining to survey and 

certification of facilities are at 42 CFR 

part 488. 

Generally, in order to enter into a 

provider agreement, a psychiatric 

hospital must first be certified by a State 

survey agency as complying with the 

conditions or requirements set forth in 

section 1861(f) of the Act, and 42 CFR 

part 482, including the special 

provisions applying to psychiatric 

hospitals in subpart E of our regulations. 

Thereafter, the psychiatric hospital is 

subject to ongoing review by a State 

survey agency to determine whether it 

continues to meet the Medicare 

requirements. However, there is an 

alternative to State compliance surveys. 

Accreditation by a nationallyrecognized accreditation program can 

substitute for ongoing State review. 

Section 1865(a)(1) of the Act provides 

that, if a provider entity demonstrates 

through accreditation by an approved 

national accreditation organization (AO) 

that all applicable Medicare conditions 

are met or exceeded, we may ‘‘deem’’ 

that provider entity as having met the 

requirements. Accreditation by an AO is 


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