Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 1995 / Notices 16657

Title Number of

respondents

Number of responses per

respondent

Average burden per

response

60.11 (a)(5) Queries by Attorneys .......................................................................................... 10 1 .25 hour

60.11(a)(7) Queries for Research Purposes ........................................................................... 100 1 1 hour

60.14 (b) Practitioner’s Disputing Data Bank Reports ............................................................ 1,080 1 .17 hour

60.14(b) Practitioner Requests for Secretarial Review ........................................................... 100 1 8 hours

60.14(b) Practitioner Statements ............................................................................................ 2,700 1 1 hour

Biennial Entity Verification Document ..................................................................................... 5,750 1 .25 hour

Entity File Update .................................................................................................................... 1,150 1 .25 hour

Note: Estimated Total Annual Burden: 167,489 hours.

Written comments and

recommendations concerning the

proposed information collections

should be sent within 30 days of this

notice directly to the individual

designated.

Dated: March 28, 1995.

James Scanlon,

Director, Data Policy Staff Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Health and PHS,

Reports Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–8022 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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Method for Evaluating and

Establishing Reimbursement Rates for

Health Care Services Authorized Under

the Indian Health Service Contract

Health Service Regulations—Portland,

Alaska, and Nashville Areas

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Extension of Project Date.

SUMMARY: The termination date for the

Portland Pilot Project now being

conducted in the Portland, Alaska, and

Nashville Areas to determine an

alternative method of evaluating and

establishing reimbursement rates for

contract health services has been

changed from March 31, 1995 to

September 30, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

J.T. Garrett, Ed.D., Acting Chief, Health

Care Administration Branch, Division of

Health Care Administration/Contract

Health Services, Room 6A–41, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857,

(301) 443–8373 (This is not a toll-free

number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Indian Health Service (IHS) issued a

general notice in 56 FR 10566 on March

13, 1991 to inform the public that the

IHS was conducting a pilot project in

the IHS Portland Area. This project is

designed to determine whether an

alternative method of evaluating and

establishing reimbursement rates for

contract health services will result in

greater participation by health care

providers and lower costs to IHS.

The project invited providers within

the Portland Area to submit their most

favorable rate quotations and was

scheduled to end on March 31, 1992.

The response was far greater than the

expectations of the IHS. As a result of

this greater than expected response, and

the need to develop complex rate

quotation analysis methodologies for

facilities, outpatient and professional

providers, and the need to develop

preferred provider lists from these

analyses, the termination date was

extended to March 31, 1993, 57 FR

10671. The termination date was again

extended to March 31, 1995, 58 FR

11864. Additionally, the IHS published

notification on June 18, 1992, 57 FR

27262, that additional sites were being

added to the pilot project to provide

more information from a wide

geographic area.

The evaluation of the facility

component of the project was completed

January 28, 1994. The overall results of

the evaluation were positive. The formal

review process of the professional

provider component has not been

completed. Extension of the project

termination date to September 30, 1996

will allow the IHS time to complete the

evaluation and to assess the results.

Based upon the results of the

evaluation, IHS will formulate, publish

and implement a new payment and

procurement policy for contract health

services. We are, therefore, extending

the termination date of this pilot project

from March 31, 1995 to September 30,

1996.

This pilot project does not change the

current IHS payment policy requirement

that health care services be procured at

rates which do not exceed prevailing

Medicare rates.

Dated: March 24, 1995.

Michel E. Lincoln,

Acting Director.

[FR Doc. 95–7867 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Community Planning and

Development

[Docket No. N–95–1917; FR–3778–N–30]

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities

To Assist the Homeless

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and

surplus Federal property reviewed by

HUD for suitability for possible use to

assist the homeless.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 1995.

ADDRESSES: For further information,

contact David Pollack, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, Room

7256, 451 Seventh Street SW,

Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202)

708–1234; TDD number for the hearingand speech-impaired (202) 708–2565,

(these telephone numbers are not tollfree), or call the toll-free Title V

information line at 1–800–927–7588.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the December 12, 1988

court order in National Coalition for the

Homeless v. Veterans Administration,

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis,

identifying unutilized, underutilized,

excess and surplus Federal buildings

and real property that HUD has

reviewed for suitability for use to assist

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the

purpose of announcing that no

additional properties have been

determined suitable or unsuitable this

week.

Dated: March 24, 1995.

Jacquie M. Lawing,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic

Development.

[FR Doc. 95–7834 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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