Notice2024-13272
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Health Insurance Claim Form
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Published
June 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51373-51374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13272]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Health Insurance Claim Form
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Office of
Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)-sponsored information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review
and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that the agency
receives on or before July 17, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Neary by telephone at 202-
693-6312, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#de9a9192818e8c9f818e8b9c92979d9ebab1b2f0b9b1a8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f6b2b9baa9a6a4b7a9a6a3b4babfb5b692999ad8919980">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Form OWCP-1500 is used by OWCP and
contractor bill payment staff to process bills for medical services
provided by medical professionals other than medical services provided
by hospitals, pharmacies and certain other medical providers. This
information is required to pay health care providers for services
rendered to injured employees covered under the Office of Workers'
Compensation Programs--administered programs. Appropriate payment
cannot be made without documentation of the medical services that were
provided by the health care provider that is billing OWCP. The
information obtained to complete claims under these programs is used to
identify the patient and determine their eligibility. It is also used
to decide if the services and supplies received are covered by these
programs and to assure that proper payment is made. For additional
substantive information about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on February 21, 2024 (89 FR 13106).
Comments are invited on: (1) whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) if the information will be processed and used in a timely
manner; (3) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (5) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless the OMB approves it and displays a currently valid
OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions
of law, no person shall generally be subject to penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid
OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
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DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOL notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL-OWCP.
Title of Collection: Health Insurance Claim Form.
OMB Control Number: 1240-0044.
Affected Public: Private Sector--Businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 43,706.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 3,544,050.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 413,473 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michelle Neary,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2024-13272 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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