CMS should
re-submit this collection again with the final rule and include any
comments on the information collection requirements that were
received on the proposed rule, as well as any changes to the
proposed requirements that have been adopted in the final
rule.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
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0
0
0
0
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0
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0
The MA program was enacted in Title II
of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization
Act of 2003 (MMA) on December 8, 2003. The MA program attempts to
broadly reform and expand availability of private health plan
options to Medicare beneficiaries. Section 103 of the Medicare
Improvements for Patients and providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), Pub.
L. 110-275, enacted on July 15, 2008, established new statutory
prohibitions and limitations for Medicare advantage plans and
Medicare prescription drug plans. On September 18, 2009, we
published the Final Rule-4131F in the Federal Register (E8-21674).
Among provisions of that final rule included requirements for plan
disclosure of information to enrollees as specified in ?422.111(b)
and ?423.128(b). This proposed rule would add new paragraphs (12)
and (11) to ?422.111(b) and ?423.128(b), to require MA
organizations and Part D sponsors to periodically provide each
enrollee with enrollee specific data to use to compare utilization
and out-of-pocket costs in the current plan year to projected
utilization and out of pocket costs for the following plan year.
Plans would disclose this information to plan enrollees in each
year in which a minimum enrollment period has been met, in
conjunction with the annual renewal materials (currently the ANOC
and EOC) described in ?422.111(b) and 423.128(b).
PL:
Pub.L. 110 - 275 103 Name of Law: The Medicare Improvements for
Patients and Providers Act of 2008.
PL:
Pub.L. 108 - 117 201 Name of Law: The Medicare Prescription
Drug Improvement, and modernization Act of 2003
This proposed rule would
require MA organizations and Part D sponsors to periodically
provide each enrollee with enrollee specific data to use to compare
utilization and out-of-pocket costs in the current plan year to
projected utilization and out of pocket costs for the following
plan year. Plans would disclose this information to plan enrollees
in each year in which a minimum enrollment period has been met, in
conjunction with the annual renewal materials (currently the ANOC
and EOC) described in ?422.111(b) and 423.128(b)
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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.