Attachment M -- Initial Letter for Multi-Unit Private Sector

MEPS-L1P
(05-04-2022)

Reference ID:

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Office of the Director
Washington, DC 20233-0001

A Message from the Director, U.S. Census Bureau:
Your response is requested to the 2022 Health Insurance Cost Study, the Insurance Component of the Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC). Healthcare is an important issue facing the United States. Policymakers and
researchers rely on good informaon to guide our Naon’s healthcare system. Your response makes this possible.
Please respond online within 30 days. If you are unable to access the records needed to answer the quesons in
this survey, please provide your best estimate.
Respond for the address:

To complete the survey online:
1. Register OR sign in at https://portal.census.gov
2. Add your authentication code.
3. Click on "Report Now" to start the survey. You can return to your account over multiple sessions to
complete the survey.

YOUR RESPONSE IS CONFIDENTIAL. Information about the authority, confidentiality, and burden of this data
collection can be found on the back of this letter. Learn more about this survey by vising the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at: https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/Insurance.jsp.
Thank you!
Sincerely,

Robert L. Santos
Director

census.gov

MEPS-L1P
(05-04-2022)

OMB Number
This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit OMB approval
number is 0935-0110 and appears at the upper right of the survey form/login screen. Without this approval, we
could not conduct this survey.
Authority and Confidenality
Title 13, United States Code, Section 8(b), and Section 913 of the Public Health Service Act (Title 42, United States
Code, Section 299b-2(a)) authorize the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Health and Human Services to
conduct this collection and to request your voluntary assistance. The U.S. Census Bureau is required by Title 13,
United States Code, Section 9, to keep your information confidential and can use your responses only to produce
statistics. The U.S. Census Bureau is not permied to publicly release your responses in a way that could idenfy
your business, organization, or institution. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are
protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.
Burden Esmate Statement
We estimate this survey will take 45 minutes, on average, to complete, including the me for reviewing
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and compleng and
reviewing the collection of information. If you offered more than two plans, we estimate an extra 11 minutes per
additional plan. Factors such as company size, complexity, and acvity will affect your actual me to complete the
survey.