Notice2024-23196
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act-Private Sector
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Published
October 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-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 195 (Tuesday, October 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81552-81553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23196]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under
the Affordable Care Act-Private Sector
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee
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Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-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 November 7, 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: Michael Howell by telephone at 202-
693-6782, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#de9a9192818e8c9f818e8b9c92979d9ebab1b2f0b9b1a8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c1858e8d9e9193809e9194838d888281a5aeadefa6aeb7">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act, Public Law 111-148, (the Affordable Care Act) was enacted on March
23, 2010 and amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation
Act of 2010, Public Law 111-152 on March 30, 2010. The Affordable Care
Act added section 2713 to the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and
incorporated this provision into ERISA and the Code. The Departments of
Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury first published interim
final rules on July 19, 2010, which implements the requirements of PHS
Act section 2713, including the requirement that non-grandfathered
group health insurance coverage to provide benefits for certain
preventive services without cost sharing, including benefits for
certain women's preventive health services as provided for in
comprehensive guidelines supported by the Health Resources and Services
Administration. The Departments subsequently published regulations
establishing an exemption for certain religious objectors with respect
to the requirement to cover contraception pursuant to comprehensive
guidelines supported by HRSA.
In 2013, the Department issued final rules, which clarified the
definition of religious employer for purposes of the religious employer
exemption and also provided accommodations for health coverage
established or maintained or arranged by certain nonprofit religious
organizations with religious objections to contraceptive services
(eligible organizations). The 2018 final rules expanded the exemption
to include additional entities (any kind of employer) and persons that
object based on religious beliefs or moral convictions objecting to
contraceptive or sterilization coverage, and by making the
accommodation compliance process optional for eligible organizations
instead of mandatory. The regulations contain the following collections
of information. First, each organization seeking to be treated as an
eligible organization for the optional accommodation process offered
under the regulation must either notify an issuer or third-party
administrator using the EBSA Form 700 method of self-certification or
provide notice to HHS of its religious or moral objection to coverage
of all or a subset of contraceptive services. Second, a health
insurance issuer or third-party administrator providing or arranging
separate payments for contraceptive services for participants and
beneficiaries in insured plans (or student enrollees and covered
dependents in student health insurance coverage) of eligible
organizations is required to provide a written notice to plan
participants and beneficiaries (or student enrollees and covered
dependents) informing them of the availability of such payments. The
notice must be separate from but, contemporaneous with (to the extent
possible) any application materials distributed in connection with
enrollment (or re-enrollment) in group or student coverage of the
eligible organization in any plan year to which the accommodation is to
apply and will be provided annually. To satisfy the notice requirement,
issuers may, but are not required to, use the model language set forth
in the 2018 final rules or substantially similar language. Third, an
eligible organization may also revoke its use of the accommodation
process and must provide participants and beneficiaries written notice
of such revocation as soon as possible. For additional substantive
information about this ICR, see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on February 5, 2024 (89 FR 7732).
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) 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; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4) 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.
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-EBSA.
Title of Collection: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under
the Affordable Care Act-Private Sector.
OMB Control Number: 1210-0150.
Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for profits.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 60.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 595,312.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 72 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $181,222.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michael Howell,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2024-23196 Filed 10-7-24; 8:45 am]
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