[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 138 (Monday, July 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 38838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-19255]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-P0015S]


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: Revision of a currently 
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Medicare Current 
Beneficiary Survey: National Baseline Medicare Beneficiary Knowledge 
Supplement; Form No.: HCFA-P-0015S; Use: This survey will establish 
baseline measures of Medicare beneficiary knowledge/understanding of 
the Medicare program, their new choices legislated under the Balanced 
Budget Act (BBA) which will allow HCFA to quantify current knowledge 
and attribute future changes in their understanding and knowledge to 
HCFA information and education initiatives. Frequency: Biennially; 
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Number of Respondents: 
16,000; Total Annual Responses: 16,000; Total Annual Hours: 2,667.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement for the proposed 
paperwork collections referenced above, E-mail your request, including 
your address and phone number, to P<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ed8c9d889f9a829f86ad858e8b8cc38a829b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3051405542475f425b70585356511e575f46">[email protected]</span></a>, 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, Security and Standards Group, 
Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards, Attention: John Rudolph, Room 
C2-26-17, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: July 9, 1998.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards, 
Security and Standards Group, Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-19255 Filed 7-17-98; 8:45 am]
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