[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 89 (Monday, May 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25043-25044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11534]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research's (AHCPR) intention to request the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to allow a proposed information collection: ``Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC) for
1998, 1999 and 2000.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), AHCPR, invites the
public to comment on this proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by June 9, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Allison Eydt, Human
Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, OMB: New Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC
20503.
All comments will become a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ruth A. Celtnieks, AHCPR Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 594-6659.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Medical Panel Expenditure Survey Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC)
for 1998, 1999 and 2000.
The ``Medical Panel Expenditure Survey Medical Provider Component
(MEPS-MPC) for 1998, 1999 and 2000.''
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is a survey of hospitals, physicians and other medical providers. The
purpose of this survey is to supplement and verify the information
provided by household respondents in the household component of the
MEPS (MEPS-HC) about the use of medical services. With the permission
of members of the households surveyed in the MEPS-HC, we plan to
contact their medical providers to determine the actual dates of
service, the diagnoses, the services provided, the amount that was
charged the amount that was paid and the source of payment. Thus, the
MPC is derived from or is based upon the core survey, the MEPS-HC.
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC)
to be conducted will provide annual, nationally representatives
estimates of health care use, expenditures, and sources of payment and
insurance coverage for the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized
population. MEPS is cosponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research (AHCPR) and the National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS).
MEPS data confidentially is protected under sections 308(d) and
903(c) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m and 42 U.S.C.
299a-1).
Data from medial providers linked to household respondents in the
MEPS Household component for calendar year 1998 will be collected
beginning in 1999 and continuing into the year 2000, data for calendar
year 1999 will be collected beginning in 2000 and continue into the
year 2001. Data for calendar year 2000 will be collected beginning in
2001 and continue into the year 2002.
Method of Collection
The medical provider survey will be conducted predominantly by
telephone, but may include self-administered mail surveys, if requested
by the respondent.
The estimated annual hour burden is as follows:
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Average number Average
Type of provider Number of of patients/ number of Average burden/event
respondents providers events/patient
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Hospital......................... 3,500 2 3.2 5 min. (.083 hrs.)
Office-based doctor.............. 8,500 1.3 3.5 5 min.
Separately billing doctor (e.g., 800 1 1.3 5 min
radiologists, anesthesiologists
or those who bill hospital
patients directly).
Home health...................... 500 1.1 5.8 5 min.
Pharmacy......................... 6,000 1.8 10.3 3 min.
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Estimated Annual Burden Total: 11,759 hours.
Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) The necessity of the proposed
collection; (b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques of
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection.
Copies of these proposed collection plans and instruments can be
obtained from the AHCPR Reports Clearance Office (see above).
Dated: May 3, 1999.
John M. Eisenberg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 99-11534 Filed 5-7-99; 8:45 am]
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