Essential Community Provider
Data Collection to Support QHP Certification (CMS-10561)
Reinstatement without change of a previously approved
collection
No
Regular
06/09/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
12,408
0
9,420
0
0
0
For plan years beginning on or after
January 1, 2017, Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to collect
more complete provider data for inclusion on the HHS Essential
Community Provider (ECP) list to ensure a more accurate reflection
of the universe of qualified available ECPs in a given service area
that can be counted toward an issuer's satisfaction of the ECP
standard. The HHS will collect data on qualified and available ECPs
from providers. Providers will submit an ECP petition to be added
to the HHS ECP list or provide required missing data fields to
remain on the list. The degree of provider participation in this
data collection effort through the ECP provider petition will help
inform HHS's future proposals for counting issuers' ECP write-ins
toward satisfaction of the ECP standard.
Reductions in the three-year
provider cost burden are associated, in part, with programming
enhancements that HHS has made to its online ECP petition process
for providers updating their data for inclusion on the HHS ECP
list. For instance, during year one (2022), we expect providers to
experience a lower burden as a result of programming enhancements
made to the facility search feature and the selective display of
only the data fields applicable to the respective provider.
Furthermore, providers that are renewing their ECP listing will
simply enter their ECP reference number from the existing ECP list
into the online petition, which will then auto-populate their
provider data from the ECP list, so that the provider only needs to
update data that have changed, rather than manually enter each data
element anew. We estimate that these logic enhancements will reduce
the amount of time for providers to complete their provider updates
and respond to the new telehealth questions. Additional reductions
in the three-year provider cost burden pertain to an estimated
decrease of total providers needing to submit the online ECP
petition, due to an overall decrease in available ECPs. Fewer
providers needing to submit the online ECP petition will reduce the
three-year cost burden to the Federal Government with respect to
reviewing these online petitions. The total number of respondents
have been reduced from 14,958 respondents to 12,408, a total
reduction of 2,550. The number of burden hours have been reduced
from 22,404 to 9,420, a total reduction of 12,984 hours.
$199,445
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Jamaa Hill 301 492-4190
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.
CMS-10561 ECP Petition Supporting Statement_10.28.21.docx
Essential Community Provider Petition