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Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA 

requires federal agencies to publish a 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension or reinstatement of an existing 

collection of information, before 

submitting the collection to OMB for 

approval. To comply with this 

requirement, CMS is publishing this 

notice. 

Information Collection 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved Information Collection; Title 

of Information Collection: CMS Plan 

Benefit Package (PBP) and Formulary 

CY 2025; Use: Under the Medicare 

Modernization Act (MMA), Medicare 

Advantage (MA) and Prescription Drug 

Plan (PDP) organizations are required to 

submit plan benefit packages for all 

Medicare beneficiaries residing in their 

service area. The plan benefit package 

submission consists of the Plan Benefit 

Package (PBP) software, formulary file, 

and supporting documentation, as 

necessary. MA and PDP organizations 

use the PBP software to describe their 

organization’s plan benefit packages, 

including information on premiums, 

cost sharing, authorization rules, and 

supplemental benefits. They also 

generate a formulary to describe their 

list of drugs, including information on 

prior authorization, step therapy, 

tiering, and quantity limits. 

CMS requires that MA and PDP 

organizations submit a completed PBP 

and formulary as part of the annual 

bidding process. During this process, 

organizations prepare their proposed 

plan benefit packages for the upcoming 

contract year and submit them to CMS 

for review and approval. CMS uses this 

data to review and approve the benefit 

packages that the plans will offer to 

Medicare beneficiaries. This allows 

CMS to review the benefit packages in 

a consistent way across all submitted 

bids during with incredibly tight 

timeframes. This data is also used to 

populate data on Medicare Plan Finder, 

which allows beneficiaries to access and 

compare Medicare Advantage and 

Prescription Drug plans. Form Number: 

CMS–R–262 (OMB control number: 

0938–0763); Frequency: Yearly; 

Affected Public: Private Sector, Business 

or other for-profits and Not-for-profit 

institutions; Number of Respondents: 

825; Total Annual Responses: 8,770; 

Total Annual Hours: 55,782 (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Kristy Holtje at 410–786–2209.) 

2. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension without change of a 

currently approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Quality Bonus 

Payment Appeals; Use: Section 1853(o) 

of the Act requires CMS to make QBPs 

to MA organizations that achieve 

performance rating scores of at least 4 

stars under a five-star rating system. 

While CMS has applied a Star Rating 

system to MA organizations for a 

number of years, prior to the QBP 

program these Star Ratings were used 

only to provide additional information 

for beneficiaries to consider in making 

their Part C and D plan elections. 

Beginning in 2012, the Star Ratings CMS 

assigns for purposes of QBPs directly 

affected the monthly payment amount 

MA organizations receive from CMS 

under their contracts. Additionally, 

section 1854(b)(1)(C)(v) of the Act, as 

added by the Affordable Care Act, also 

requires CMS to change the share of 

savings that MA organizations must 

provide to enrollees as the beneficiary 

rebate specified at § 422.266(a) based on 

the level of a sponsor’s Star Rating for 

quality performance. 

The information collected on the 

Request for Reconsideration form from 

MA organizations is considered by the 

reconsideration official and potentially 

the hearing officer to review CMS’s 

determination of the organization’s 

eligibility for a QBP. The form asks MA 

organizations to select the Star Ratings 

measure(s) they believe was 

miscalculated or used incorrect data and 

describe what they believe is the issue. 

Under § 422.260(c)(3)(ii) these are the 

only bases for appeals. In conducting 

the reconsideration, the reconsideration 

official will review the QBP 

determination, the evidence and 

findings upon which it was based, and 

any other written evidence submitted by 

the organization with their Request for 

Reconsideration or by CMS before the 

reconsideration determination is made. 

Form Number: CMS–10346 (OMB 

Control Number 0938–1129; Frequency: 

Yearly; Affected Public: Private Sector; 

Number of Respondents: 20; Total 

Annual Responses: 20; Total Annual 

Hours: 160. (For policy questions 

regarding this collection contact Joy 

Binion at 410–786–6567.) 

Dated: October 24, 2023. 

William N. Parham, III, 

Director, Paperwork Reduction Staff, 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–10398 #17] 

Medicaid and Children’s Health 

Insurance Program (CHIP) Generic 

Information Collection Activities: 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On May 28, 2010, the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

issued Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

guidance related to the ‘‘generic’’ 

clearance process. Generally, this is an 

expedited process by which agencies 

may obtain OMB’s approval of 

collection of information requests that 

are ‘‘usually voluntary, low-burden, and 

uncontroversial collections,’’ do not 

raise any substantive or policy issues, 

and do not require policy or 

methodological review. The process 

requires the submission of an 

overarching plan that defines the scope 

of the individual collections that would 

fall under its umbrella. On October 23, 

2011, OMB approved our initial request 

to use the generic clearance process 

under control number 0938–1148 

(CMS–10398). It was last approved on 

April 26, 2021, via the standard PRA 

process which included the publication 

of 60- and 30-day Federal Register 

notices. The scope of the April 2021 

umbrella accounts for Medicaid and 

CHIP State plan amendments, waivers, 

demonstrations, and reporting. This 

Federal Register notice seeks public 

comment on one or more of our 

collection of information requests that 

we believe are generic and fall within 

the scope of the umbrella. Interested 

persons are invited to submit comments 

regarding our burden estimates or any 

other aspect of this collection of 

information, including: the necessity 

and utility of the proposed information 

collection for the proper performance of 

the agency’s functions, the accuracy of 

the estimated burden, ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected, and the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

November 13, 2023. 


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ADDRESSES: When commenting, please 

reference the applicable form number 

(see below) and the OMB control 

number (0938–1148). To be assured 

consideration, comments and 

recommendations must be submitted in 

any one of the following ways: 

1. Electronically. You may send your 

comments electronically to https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for ‘‘Comment or 

Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’ 

to find the information collection 

document(s) that are 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: CMS–10398 (#64)/OMB 

control number: 0938–1148, Room C4– 

26–05, 7500 Security Boulevard, 

Baltimore, Maryland 21244–1850. 

To obtain copies of a supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed collection(s) summarized in 

this notice, please access the CMS PRA 

website by copying and pasting the 

following web address into your web 

browser: https://www.cms.gov/ 

Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/ 

PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William N. Parham at (410) 786–4669. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following 

is a summary of the use and burden 

associated with the subject information 

collection(s). More detailed information 

can be found in the collection’s 

supporting statement and associated 

materials (see ADDRESSES). 

Generic Information Collection 

1. Title of Information Collection: 

CHIP State Plan Eligibility; Type of 

Information Collection Request: 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection; Use: This iteration proposes 

to revise CHIP State Plan template CS27 

to make continuous eligibility 

mandatory for separate CHIPs. 

Additional revisions would: (1) revise 

language in the template to reflect that 

CE for children is mandatory, (2) 

remove age selection for optional CE 

and the drop-down menu for the 

number of months for the CE eligibility 

period, (3) add assurances for a state 

that elects to provide coverage for the 

from-conception-to-end-of pregnancy 

(FCEP) population (otherwise known as 

the ‘‘unborn’’), and (4) change the 

authority of continuous eligibility from 

section 2105(a)(4)(A) to 2107(e)(1)(K). 

Form Number: CMS–10398 (#17) (OMB 

control number: 0938–1148); Frequency: 

Once and on occasion; Affected Public: 

State, Local, or Tribal Governments; 

Number of Respondents: 56; Total 

Annual Responses: 56; Total Annual 

Hours: 2,800. For policy questions 

regarding this collection contact: Joyce 

Jordan at (410) 786–3413. 

Dated: October 24, 2023. 

William N. Parham, III, 

Director, Paperwork Reduction Staff, 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–10393, CMS– 

10861 and CMS–10146] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing 

an opportunity for the public to 

comment on CMS’ intention to collect 

information from the public. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension or reinstatement of an existing 

collection of information, and to allow 

a second opportunity for public 

comment on the notice. Interested 

persons are invited to send comments 

regarding the burden estimate or any 

other aspect of this collection of 

information, including the necessity and 

utility of the proposed information 

collection for the proper performance of 

the agency’s functions, the accuracy of 

the estimated burden, ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected, and the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. 

DATES: Comments on the collection(s) of 

information must be received by the 

OMB desk officer by November 27, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

To obtain copies of a supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed collection(s) summarized in 

this notice, please access the CMS PRA 

website by copying and pasting the 

following web address into your web 

browser: https://www.cms.gov/ 

Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/ 

PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Parham at (410) 786–4669. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies 

must obtain approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for each 

collection of information they conduct 

or sponsor. The term ‘‘collection of 

information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and 

includes agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)) requires federal agencies 

to publish a 30-day notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension or 

reinstatement of an existing collection 

of information, before submitting the 

collection to OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, CMS is 

publishing this notice that summarizes 

the following proposed collection(s) of 

information for public comment: 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a previously 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Beneficiary and 

Family Centered Data Collection; Use: 

To ensure the QIOs are effectively 

meeting their goals, CMS collects 

information about beneficiary 

experience receiving support from the 

QIOs. This is a request to revise the 

information collection. The revisions to 

this information collection include the 

deletion of the previously approved 

Direct Feedback Survey and associated 

instructions and the General Feedback 

Web Survey and associated instructions. 

The information collection uses both 

qualitative and quantitative strategies to 

ensure CMS and the QIOs understand 

beneficiary experiences through all 

interactions with the QIO including 

initial contact, interim interactions, and 

case closure. Information collection 


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