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Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 

498–2733. 

The Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, has been delegated the 

authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5623 Filed 3–10–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[Document Identifier: CMS–10367] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services (CMS), 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 function; 

(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. 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: New collection (Request for a 

new OMB Control Number); Title of 

Information Collection: Medicaid State 

Plan Preprint for Use by States When 

Implementing Section 6505 of the 

[Patient Protection and] Affordable Care 

Act; Use: CMS has developed a 

Medicaid State Plan Preprint for use by 

States and specifically to support the 

January 1, 2011, mandate of the 

prohibition on payments outside of the 

United States. The preprint follows the 

format and requested information from 

prior preprints provided to the States by 

CMS and provides a placeholder and 

assurance of compliance with section 

1902(a) of the Social Security Act; Form 

Number: CMS–10367 (OMB#: 0938– 

NEW); Frequency: Occasionally; 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Governments; Number of Respondents: 

56; Total Annual Responses: 56; Total 

Annual Hours: 5. (For policy questions 

regarding this collection contact Carla 

Ausby at 410–786–2153. For all other 

issues call 410–786–1326.) 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, access CMS Web Site 

address at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ 

PaperworkReductionActof1995, or Email your request, including your 

address, phone number, OMB number, 

and CMS document identifier, to 

Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the 

Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786– 

1326. 

To be assured consideration, 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collections must 

be received by the OMB desk officer at 

the address below, no later than 5 p.m. 

on April 11, 2011: OMB, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: CMS Desk Officer, Fax 

Number: (202) 395–6974, E-mail: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: March 4, 2011. 

Martique Jones, 

Director, Regulations Development Group, 

Division B, Office of Strategic Operations and 

Regulatory Affairs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[Document Identifier: CMS–2540–10, CMS– 

10115, CMS–10136, CMS–10260, CMS– 

10320, CMS–10381, CMS–855(S), CMS– 

855(A, B, I, R) and CMS–855(O)] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services (CMS) 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. 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Skilled Nursing 

Facility and Skilled Nursing Facility 

Health Care Complex Cost Report. Use: 

Form CMS 2540–10 is used by Skilled 

Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and Skilled 

Nursing Facility Complexes 

participating in the Medicare program to 

report the health care costs to determine 

the amount of reimbursable costs for 

services rendered to Medicare 

beneficiaries. It is required under 

sections 1815(a), 1833(e) and 

1861(v)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act 

(42 U.S.C. 1395g) to submit annual 

information to achieve settlement of 

costs for health care services rendered to 

Medicare beneficiaries. The revision is 

due to new reporting requirements as 

mandated by the Patient Protection and 

Affordability Act section 6104. The 

Patient Protection and Affordable Care 

Act, § 6104(1) of Public Law 111–148 

amended § 1888(f) of the Social Security 

Act (‘‘Reporting of Direct Care 

Expenditures’’), requires SNFs to 

separately report expenditures for wages 

and benefits for direct care staff 

(registered nurses, licensed professional 

nurses, certified nurse assistants, and 

other medical and therapy staff). In 

implementing these changes Worksheet 

S–3, part V was added. With the 

addition of this worksheet the average 

record keeping time for each provider 

will be increased by 5 hours and the 

average reporting time by 1 hour. Form 

Number: CMS–2540–10 (OMB#: 0938– 

0463); Frequency: Yearly; Affected 

Public: Private Sector; Business or other 

for-profit and not-for-profit institutions; 

Number of Respondents: 15,071; Total 

Annual Responses: 15,071; Total 

Annual Hours: 3,171,602 (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Amelia Citerone at 410–786– 

3901. For all other issues call 410–786– 

1326.) 

2. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension of currently 

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Information Collection: Federal 

Reimbursement of Emergency Health 

Services Furnished to Undocumented 

Aliens (Sections 1011) Provider 

Enrollment Application; Use: Section 

1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 

Improvement, and Modernization Act of 

2003, provides that the Secretary will 

establish a process (i.e., enrollment and 

claims payment) for eligible providers to 

request payment. The Secretary must 

directly pay hospitals, physicians and 

ambulance providers (including Indian 

Health Service, Indian Tribe and Tribal 

organizations) for their otherwise unreimbursed costs of providing services 

required by section 1867 of the Social 

Security Act (EMTALA) and related 

hospital inpatient, outpatient and 

ambulance services. CMS will use the 

application information to administer 

this health services program and 

establish an audit process. The Federal 

Reimbursement of Emergency Health 

Services Furnished to Undocumented 

Aliens (Sections 1011) Provider 

Enrollment Application has been 

revised. For a list of these revisions, 

refer to the summary of changes 

document. 

Form Number: CMS–10115 (OMB# 

0938–0929); Frequency: On occasion; 

Affected Public: Private sector— 

Business or other for-profit and Not-forprofit institutions; Number of 

Respondents: 5,000; Total Annual 

Responses: 5,000; Total Annual Hours: 

2,999. 

3. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Demonstration Ambulatory Care Quality 

Measure Performance Assessment Tool 

(‘‘PAT’’); Use: This request is to cover a 

modification of an existing, approved 

data collection effort with a new secure 

Web based system. This system will also 

provide a platform for developing tools 

to collect clinical quality data for future 

demonstrations and programs. There is 

no increase in burden. In fact, because 

all of the practices submitting data will 

have Electronic Health Records (EHRs), 

it is likely that the originally estimated 

burden will decrease over the coming 

years of the demonstration. CMS is 

requesting an extension of the currently 

approved tool for the collection of 

ambulatory care clinical performance 

measure data. 

The data will be used to continue 

implementation of two Congressionally 

mandated demonstration projects (the 

Physician Group Practice (PGP) 

Demonstration and the Medicare Care 

Management Performance (MCMP) 

Demonstration); also the support data 

collection under the new EHR 

Demonstration. Each of these 

demonstrations, test new payment 

methods for improving the quality and 

efficiency of health care services 

delivered to Medicare fee-for-service 

beneficiaries, especially those with 

chronic conditions that account for a 

disproportionate share of Medicare 

expenditures. In addition, the MCMP 

and EHR demonstration specifically 

encourage the adoption of electronic 

health records systems as a vehicle for 

improving how health care is delivered. 

4. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension without change; 

Title of Information Collection: 

Medicare Advantage and Prescription 

Drug Program: Final Marketing 

Provisions CFR 422.111(a)(3) and 

423.128 (a)(3). Use: Medicare Advantage 

(MA) plans must provide notice to plan 

members of impending changes to plan 

benefits, premiums and copays in the 

coming year so that members will be in 

the best position to make an informed 

choice on continued enrollment or 

disenrollment from that plan at least 15 

days before the Annual Election Period 

(AEP). Beginning 2009, organizations 

will be required to notify plan members 

of the coming year changes using a 

combined standardized document at the 

time of enrollment and annually 

thereafter. 

Section 422.111 requires, to the extent 

that a MA plan has a Web site, annual 

notification through the Web site of 

written, hard copy notification sent to 

the beneficiaries. Section 423.128 

requires that a part D plan have 

mechanisms for providing specific 

information on a timely basis to current 

and prospective enrollees upon request. 

These mechanisms include, Internet 

Web site that includes information on 

part D plan description. MA 

organizations (formerly M+C 

organizations) and Prescription Drug 

Plan Sponsors use the information to 

comply with the eligibility requirements 

and the MA and part D contract 

requirements. CMS will use this 

information to ensure that correct 

information is disclosed to Medicare 

beneficiaries, both potential enrollees 

and enrollees. Form Number: CMS– 

10260 (OMB#: 0938–1051); Frequency: 

Reporting—Yearly; Affected Public: 

Business or other for-profits; Number of 

Respondents: 790; Total Annual 

Responses: 790; Total Annual Hours: 

9,480. (For policy questions regarding 

this collection contact Camille Brown at 

410–786–0274. For all other issues call 

410–786–1326.) 

5. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Reinstatement of previously 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Health Care 

Reform Insurance Web Portal 

Requirements 45 CFR part 159; Use: In 

compliance with the requirement of 

section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Center for 

Consumer Information and Insurance 

Oversight, Centers for Medicare and 

Medicaid Services, Department of 

Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of a 

proposed information collection request 

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. 

This information collection is 

mandated by Sections 1103 and 10102 

of The Patient Protection and 

Affordability Care Act, Public Law 111– 

148 (ACA). Once all of the information 

is collected from insurance issuers of 

major medical health insurance (hereon 

referred to as issuers) and other affected 

parties, it will be processed for will 

display at http://www.healthcare.gov 

with quarterly refreshes. The 

information that is provided will help 

the general public make educated 

decisions about organizations providing 

private health care insurance. 

In accordance with the provisions of 

the ACA referenced above, the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services created a Web site called 

healthcare.gov to meet these and other 

provisions of the law, and data 

collection was conducted for six months 

based upon an emergency information 

collection request. The interim final rule 

published on May 5, 2010 served as the 

emergency Federal Register Notice for 

the prior Information Collection Request 

(ICR). The Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) reviewed this ICR under 

emergency processing and approved the 

ICR on April 30, 2010. The CCIIO will 

be submitting a new ICR to OMB for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

CCIIO is currently updating a system 

(hereon referred to as Web portal) where 

State Departments of Insurance and 

issuers will log in to using a custom 

user ID and password validation. The 


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States will be tasked to provide 

information on issuers in their State and 

various Web sites maintained for 

consumers. The issuers will be tasked to 

provide information on their major 

medical insurance products and plans. 

They will ultimately be given the choice 

to download a basic information 

template to enter data then upload into 

the Web portal; to manually enter data 

within the Web portal itself; or to 

submit xml files containing their 

information. Once the States and issuers 

submit their data, they will receive an 

e-mail notifying them of any errors, and 

that their submission was received. 

CCIIO is mandating the issuers verify 

and update their information on a 

quarterly basis and is requesting the 

States to verify State submitted 

information on an annual basis. In the 

event that an issuer enhances its 

existing plans, proposes new plans, or 

deactivates plans, the organization 

would be required to update the 

information in the Web portal. Changes 

occurring during the three month 

quarterly periods will be allowed 

utilizing effective dates for both the 

plans and rates associated with the 

plans. Information that is to be collected 

from State high risk pools will be 

collected from The National Association 

of State Comprehensive Health 

Insurance Plans (NASCHIP) at this time. 

Updates to this information may be 

submitted voluntarily. 

The estimated hour burden on issuers 

for the Plan Finder data collection in the 

first year is estimated as 84,600 total 

burden hours, or 113 hours per 

organization. This estimate is based on 

an assumed average of 450 individual 

plan issuers and 700 small group plan 

issuers per each of the four quarterly 

collections. It includes 30 hours per 

organization for training and 

communication. Additionally, for each 

of the issuers it includes 10 hours of 

preparation time, one hour of login and 

upload time, two hours of 

troubleshooting and data review and 

one half hour for attestation per 

organization per quarterly refresh. 

The estimated hour burden on the 

States is informed by the fact that they 

have already submitted the data once 

and only need to update. The overall 

hours estimate is 575, or 11.5 per 

Department of Insurance. This is 

premised on 2 hours of training and 

communication, 8 hours for data 

collection, and one half hour of 

submission. Form Number: CMS–10320 

(OMB#: 0938–1086); Frequency: 

Reporting—Annually/Quarterly; 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits and States; Number of 

Respondents: 801; Total Annual 

Responses: 3,051; Total Annual Hours: 

85,175. (For policy questions regarding 

this collection contact Beth Liu at 301– 

492–4268. For all other issues call 410– 

786–1326.) 

6. Type of Information Collection 

Request: New collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Version 5010/ 

ICD–10 Industry Readiness Assessment 

Use: The Health Insurance Portability 

and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) 

requires the Secretary of HHS to adopt 

transaction standards that covered 

entities are required to use when 

electronically conducting certain health 

care administrative transactions, such as 

claims, remittance, eligibility and 

claims status requests and responses. 

Accordingly, on January 16, 2009, HHS 

published final rules adopting by 

regulation two sets of standards for 

HIPAA transactions: Version 5010 

standards for eight types of electronic 

health care transactions (claims, 

eligibility inquiries, remittance advices, 

etc.) and ICD–10 code set standards. The 

final rules set compliance dates of 

January 1, 2012 for Version 5010 

standards and October 1, 2013 for ICD– 

10 standards. HIPAA transactions not 

meeting the standards by those dates 

will be rejected. The final rules also 

outlined interim milestones that 

organizations should meet in order to 

achieve compliance by the required 

dates. For Version 5010, these interim 

milestones include completing internal 

testing and being able to send and 

receive compliant transactions by 

December 2010, commencing external 

testing with trading partners by January 

2011, and completing that testing and 

moving into production by the 

compliance date of January 1, 2012. 

Entities cannot implement ICD–10 

standards until they are in compliance 

with Version 5010; the interim 

milestone for ICD–10 is to begin 

compliance activities (gap analysis, 

design, development, internal testing) 

by January 2011. 

CMS has developed an education and 

communication campaign to support the 

adoption of and transition to Version 

5010 and ICD–10. The education and 

communication activities will be 

targeted towards the millions of 

professionals across the health care 

industry who must take steps to prepare 

for the implementation of the new codes 

and transaction standards. CMS is 

requesting Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval to conduct 

survey research to monitor the health 

care industry’s awareness of, and 

preparation for, the transition to Version 

5010 and ICD–10. The aggregated data 

obtained through the survey will help 

inform CMS outreach and education 

efforts to help affected entities (health 

care providers, health plans, 

clearinghouses, and then vendors who 

service them) meet interim milestones 

and achieve timely compliance so that 

they can continue to process HIPAA 

transactions without interruption. 

CMS has contracted to conduct a 

tracking survey of populations charged 

with implementing Version 5010 and 

ICD–10 electronic transaction 

processing, specifically payers (health 

insurance plans and managed care 

organizations), providers (hospitals and 

primary care providers), and vendors 

(software providers, third-party billers 

and clearinghouses). A selfadministered Web-based survey will be 

the data collection. The data collection 

field period is expected to be four weeks 

in Summer 2011. Form Number: CMS– 

10381 (OMB#: 0938–NEW); Frequency: 

Once; Affected Public: Business or other 

for-profits and Not-for-profit 

institutions; Number of Respondents: 

600; Total Annual Responses: 600; Total 

Annual Hours: 150. (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Rosali Topper at 410–786–7260. 

For all other issues call 410–786–1326.) 

7. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Durable Medical Equipment Supplier 

Enrollment Application Use: The 

primary function of the CMS 855S 

DMEPOS supplier enrollment 

application is to gather information 

from a supplier that tells us who it is, 

whether it meets certain qualifications 

to be a health care supplier, where it 

renders its services or supplies, the 

identity of the owners of the enrolling 

entity, and information necessary to 

establish the correct claims payment. 

The goal of evaluating and revising the 

CMS 855S DMEPOS supplier 

enrollment application is to simplify 

and clarify the information collection 

without jeopardizing our need to collect 

specific information. Additionally, 

periodic revisions are necessary to 

incorporate new regulatory 

requirements. The goal of this revision 

of the CMS 855S is to incorporate new 

regulatory provisions found at 42 CFR 

424.57(c) (1 through 30) and 42 CFR 

424.58. These revisions will allow CMS 

to be in compliance with the above 

stated regulations implementing new 

quality standards for DMEPOS 

suppliers, including accreditation 

requirements. This revision will also 

incorporate new supplier standard 

regulations found in the final regulation 

that published on August 27, 2010 (75 

FR 52629–52649). Form Number: CMS– 

855(S) (OMB#: 0938–1056); Frequency: 


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Yearly; Affected Public: Private Sector; 

Business or other for-profit and not-forprofit institutions; Number of 

Respondents: 140,290; Total Annual 

Responses: 140,290; Total Annual 

Hours: (For policy questions regarding 

this collection contact Kim McPhillips 

at 410–786–5374. For all other issues 

call 410–786–1326.) 

8. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Enrollment Application Use: The 

primary function of the CMS–855 

Medicare enrollment application is to 

gather information from a provider or 

supplier that tells us who it is, whether 

it meets certain qualifications to be a 

health care provider or supplier, where 

it practices or renders its services, the 

identity of the owners of the enrolling 

entity, and other information necessary 

to establish correct claims payments. 

The goal of this submission is to address 

the following issues. The CMS–855A 

enrollment form currently captures 

ownership/managerial information on 

providers. The data required under 

sections 6401 and 6001, however, is 

more specific than that currently 

obtained on the CMS–855A. CMS will 

therefore create four attachments to the 

CMS–855A—two for SNFs and the other 

two for physician-owned hospitals—to 

secure this information. In addition to 

the application changes triggered by 

ACA, CMS is making other revisions to 

the forms as well. Form Number: CMS– 

855 (A, B, I, R) (OMB#: 0938–0685); 

Frequency: Yearly; Affected Public: 

Private Sector; Business or other forprofit and not-for-profit institutions; 

Number of Respondents: 440,450; Total 

Annual Responses: 440,450; Total 

Annual Hours: 842,810 (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Kim McPhillips at 410–786– 

5374. For all other issues call 410–786– 

1326.) 

9. Type of Information Collection 

Request: New collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Enrollment Application for Eligible 

Ordering and Referring Physicians and 

Non-physician Practices Use: CMS is 

adding a new CMS–855 Medicare 

Enrollment Application (CMS 855O— 

Medicare Enrollment Application for 

Ordering and Referring Physicians 

only). CMS has found that many 

providers and suppliers who are not 

enrolled in Medicare are ordering and 

referring physicians for Medicare 

enrolled providers and suppliers. The 

ordering and referring data field on the 

CMS 1500 claims submission form 

requires an ordering or referring 

physician to have a Medicare 

identification number. Without an 

ordering or referring physician, specific 

types of claims submitted by Medicare 

approved providers and suppliers are 

rejected by Medicare Administrative 

Contractors (MAC) as required by 

Medicare regulation. Therefore, if an 

ordering or referring physician does not 

participate in the Medicare program, but 

orders or refers his/her patients to a 

Medicare provider or supplier, the claim 

submitted by the Medicare provider or 

supplier for the given ordered or 

referred service is automatically rejected 

by the MAC. The CMS 855O allows a 

physician to receive a Medicare 

identification number (without being 

approved for billing privileges) for the 

sole purpose of ordering and referring 

beneficiaries to Medicare approved 

providers and suppliers. This new 

Medicare application form allows 

physicians who do not provide services 

to Medicare beneficiaries to be given a 

Medicare identification number without 

having to supply all the data required 

for the submission of Medicare claims. 

It also allows the Medicare program to 

identify ordering and referring 

physicians without having to validate 

the amount of data necessary to 

determine claims payment eligibility 

(such as banking information), while 

continuing to identify the physician’s 

credentials as valid for ordering and 

referring purposes. Form Number: 

CMS–855(O) (OMB#: 0938–NEW0685); 

Frequency: Yearly; Affected Public: 

Private Sector; Business or other forprofit and not-for-profit institutions; 

Number of Respondents: 48,000; Total 

Annual Responses: 48,000; Total 

Annual Hours: 46,000 (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Kim McPhillips at 410–786– 

5374. For all other issues call 410–786– 

1326.) 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, access CMS’ Web site 

at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ 

PaperworkReductionActof1995, or email your request, including your 

address, phone number, OMB number, 

and CMS document identifier, to 

Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the 

Reports Clearance Office at 410–786– 

1326. 

In commenting on the proposed 

information collections please reference 

the document identifier or OMB control 

number. To be assured consideration, 

comments and recommendations must 

be submitted in one of the following 

ways by May 10, 2011: 

1. Electronically. You may submit 

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) 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. 

Dated: March 4, 2011. 

Martique Jones, 

Director, Regulations Development Group, 

Division B, Office of Strategic Operations and 

Regulatory Affairs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–3246–N] 

Medicare Program; Meeting of the 

Medicare Evidence Development and 

Coverage Advisory Committee, May 

11, 2011 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that a 

public meeting of the Medicare 

Evidence Development & Coverage 

Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) 

(‘‘Committee’’). The Committee generally 

provides advice and recommendations 

concerning the adequacy of scientific 

evidence needed to determine whether 

certain medical items and services can 

be covered under the Medicare statute. 

This meeting will focus on the currently 

available evidence regarding the 

outcomes associated with the use of 

unilateral and bilateral cochlear implant 

technology for hearing loss. This 

meeting is open to the public in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 

10(a)). 

DATES: Meeting Date: The public 

meeting will be held on Wednesday, 

May 11, 2011 from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 

p.m., eastern daylight time (e.d.t.). 

Deadline for Submission of Written 

Comments: Written comments must be 

received at the address specified in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice by 5 

p.m. e.d.t., Monday, April 11, 2011. 

Once submitted, all comments are final. 

Deadlines for Speaker Registration 

and Presentation Materials: The 


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