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2.  Since the supporting statement does not make a claim of confidentiality for this collection, the following sentence must be removed from the “Overview and Important Instructions” page of the survey: “Individual responses to this survey will be kept confidential.”

We would like to include the confidentiality statements in the questionnaire materials, and so request the following revision the confidentiality section of the OMB supporting statement:

MPR will take several steps to assure respondents that the information they provide will be treated as private to the fullest extent permitted by law and used for research purposes only. Advance letters to contracts will inform respondents that data will be aggregated in reports to CMS and that contract level data will not be reported. Staff assigned to work on the project sign confidentiality pledges as a term of employment. This pledge requires staff to maintain the privacy of all information collected.

 

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