Pursuant to 42 CFR 422.624(b)(1),
providers in skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and
comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities must deliver to
MA enrollees a 2-day advance notice of termination of services. Per
requirements at 42 CFR 422.626(e)(1), MA organizations must deliver
detailed notices to the QIO and enrollees upon request for appeal
of the termination of services. These notices fulfill the
regulatory requirement. 42 CFR 417.600(b) provides that cost plans
must follow these same fast track appeal notification procedures
for their enrollees in SNFs HHAs and CORFs.
US Code:
42
USC 1395-21 Name of Law: Implementation of Medicare Advantage
Program
PL:
Pub.L. 108 - 173 234 Name of Law: Medicare Prescription Drug,
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
Our revised methodology for
calculating the total burden is responsible, in part, for the
increase in burden for this package. We now include the total
number of affected providers in our estimates, whereas we
previously only included the total number of Medicare health plans.
Additionally, the number of Medicare health plans has grown from
376 to 740 plans, the number of Medicare enrollees has increased
from 6.1 million to 10.9 million, and the hourly wage for a GS-12,
Step 1 employees has increased from $26.53 to $28.88. Please see
Supporting Statement for further details concerning the increase in
burden for this package.
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No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Bonnie Harkless
4107865666
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.