Medicare Prescription Drug
Inflation Rebate Program: Sections 11101 and 11102 of the Inflation
Reduction Act (IRA) (CMS-10930)
New
collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
No
Regular
07/24/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
26,000
0
208,000
0
0
0
The purpose of this ICR is for the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to collect
information to implement the Medicare Part D Drug Inflation Rebate
Program as proposed in CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)
proposed rule. Specifically, section 1860D 14B(b)(1)(B) of the Act
requires that beginning with plan year 2026, CMS shall exclude from
the total number of units for a Part D rebatable drug, with respect
to an applicable period, those units for which a manufacturer
provides a discount under the 340B Program. In the CY 2026 PFS
proposed rule, CMS proposed to establish a 340B repository to
receive voluntary submissions from covered entities of certain data
elements from Part D 340B claims to allow CMS to assess such data
for use in identifying units of Part D rebatable drugs for which a
manufacturer provides a discount under the 340B Program in a future
applicable period. CMS proposed to allow covered entities to submit
data on units of Part D rebatable drugs for which a manufacturer
provides a discount under the 340B Program beginning in 2026 to
begin testing the usability of the 340B repository. This ICR will
enable CMS to collect information to implement this voluntary
collection.
We estimate that approximately
6,500 covered entities will respond and submit data to the 340B
Repository Data Elements Reporting Form for CY 2026 based on
internal CMS analyses of the unique 340B ID numbers in the HRSA
OPAIS database that are active (that is, not terminated) with at
least one contract pharmacy association listed and based on
comments received on the CY 2025 PFS proposed rule from interested
parties, including covered entities, requesting and expressing
support for the establishment of a 340B repository. We expect that
each submission would take 6 hours at $106.02/hr for a Software
Quality Assurance Analyst and Tester and 2 hours at $128.00/hr for
a General and Operations Manager. In aggregate, we estimate an
annual burden of 208,000 hours (6,500 covered entities x 8
hr/response x 4 responses/year) at a cost of $23,195,120 (26,000
responses x [(2 hr x $128.00/hr) + (6 hr x $106.02/hr)]).
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.