Notice2025-07302
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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April 28, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Abstract
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension or reinstatement of an existing collection of information, and to allow a second opportunity for public comment on the notice. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including the necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of the agency's functions, the accuracy of the estimated burden, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected, and the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize the information collection burden.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 80 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17601-17603]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07302]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
[Document Identifier: CMS-10105, CMS-10325 and CMS-10653]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is
announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention
to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), federal agencies are required to publish notice in
the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed extension or reinstatement of an
existing collection of information, and to allow a second opportunity
for public comment on the notice. Interested persons are invited to
send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the proper performance of the
agency's functions, the accuracy of the estimated burden, ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected, and the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection
burden.
DATES: Comments on the collection(s) of information must be received by
the OMB desk officer by May 28, 2025.
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.
To obtain copies of a supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed collection(s) summarized in this notice, please access
the CMS PRA website by copying and pasting the following web address
into your web browser: <a href="https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRA-Listing">https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRA-Listing</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Parham at (410) 786-4669.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. The term ``collection of
information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and
includes agency requests or requirements that members of the public
submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires
federal agencies to publish a 30-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each
proposed extension or reinstatement of an existing collection of
information, before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, CMS is publishing this notice that
summarizes the following proposed collection(s) of information for
public comment:
1. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: National
Implementation of the In-Center Hemodialysis CAHPS Survey; Use: The
national implementation of the ICH CAHPS Survey is designed to allow
third-party, CMS-approved survey vendors to administer the ICH CAHPS
Survey using mail-only, telephone-only, or mixed (mail with telephone
follow-up) modes of survey administration. Experience from previous
CAHPS surveys shows that mail, telephone, and mail with telephone
follow-up data collection modes work well for
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respondents, vendors, and health care providers. Any additional forms
of information technology, such as web surveys, is under investigation
as a potential survey option in this population.
Data collected in the national implementation of the ICH CAHPS
Survey are used for the following purposes:
<bullet> To provide a source of information from which selected
measures can be publicly reported to beneficiaries as a decision aid
for dialysis facility selection.
<bullet> To aid facilities with their internal quality improvement
efforts and external benchmarking with other facilities.
<bullet> To provide CMS with information for monitoring and public
reporting purposes. To support the ESRD Quality Improvement Program.
Form Number: CMS-10105 (OMB control number: 0938-0926); Frequency:
Annually; Affected Public: Individuals and Households; Number of
Respondents: 95,000; Number of Responses: 95,000; Total Annual Hours:
51,300. (For policy questions regarding this collection, contact Lauren
Popham at 410-786-8568 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ec2effbfcebe0a0fee1fee6efe3ceede3fda0e6e6fda0e9e1f8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0549647077606b2b756a756d6468456668762b6d6d762b626a73">[email protected]</span></a>.)
2. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Disclosure and
Recordkeeping Requirements for Grandfathered Health Plans under the
Affordable Care Act; Use: Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act
provides that certain plans and health insurance coverage in existence
as of March 23, 2010, known as grandfathered health plans, are not
required to comply with certain statutory provisions in the Act. The
final regulations titled ``Final Rules under the Affordable Care Act
for Grandfathered Plans, Preexisting Condition Exclusions, Lifetime and
Annual Limits, Rescissions, Dependent Coverage, Appeals, and Patient
Protections'' (80 FR 72192, November 18, 2015) require that, to
maintain its status as a grandfathered health plan, a plan must
maintain records documenting the terms of the plan in effect on March
23, 2010, and any other documents that are necessary to verify,
explain, or clarify status as a grandfathered health plan. The plan
must make such records available for examination upon request by
participants, beneficiaries, individual policy subscribers, or a state
or federal agency official. A grandfathered health plan is also
required to include a statement in any summary of benefits under the
plan or health insurance coverage that the plan or coverage believes it
is a grandfathered health plan within the meaning of section 1251 of
the Affordable Care Act and provide contact information for questions
and complaints. In addition, a grandfathered group health plan that is
changing health insurance issuers is required to provide the succeeding
health insurance issuer (and the succeeding health insurance issuer
must require) documentation of plan terms (including benefits, cost
sharing, employer contributions, and annual limits) under the prior
health insurance coverage sufficient to make a determination whether
the standards of paragraph Sec. 147.140(g)(1) of the 2015 final
regulations are exceeded. It is also required that, for an insured
group health plan (or a multiemployer plan) that is a grandfathered
plan, the relevant policies, certificates, contracts of insurance, or
plan documents must disclose in a prominent and effective manner that
employers, employee organizations, or plan sponsors, as applicable, are
required to notify the issuer (or multiemployer plan) if the
contribution rate changes at any point during the plan year. Form
Number: CMS-10325 (OMB control number: 0938-1093); Frequency: On
Occasion; Affected Public: Private Sector, State, Local or Tribal
governments; Number of Respondents: 14,603; Total Annual Responses:
2,094,506; Total Annual Hours: 40. (For policy questions regarding this
collection contact Adam Pellillo at 667-290-9621.)
3. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of information Collection: Coverage of
Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act; Use: Section
2713 of the PHS Act requires non-grandfathered group health plans and
health insurance issuers offering non-grandfathered group or individual
health insurance coverage to provide benefits for certain recommended
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 (HRSA). The final regulations issued on November 15,
2018, titled ``Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of
Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' (83 FR
57536) and ``Moral Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of
Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' (83 FR
57592) (2018 final regulations) finalized interim final rules that
expanded exemptions for religious beliefs and established an exemption
for moral convictions for certain entities or individuals whose health
plans are otherwise subject to the requirement to cover contraceptive
services without cost sharing under PHS Act section 2713. The final
regulations extended the exemption to health insurance issuers with
sincerely held religious or moral objections to contraceptive coverage
in certain circumstances, as well as to additional categories of group
health plan sponsors.
The 2018 final regulations also left in place, from previous
rulemaking, an accommodation process for certain objecting entities
that wish to use it to avoid contracting, arranging, paying, or
referring for contraceptive coverage, but made use of the accommodation
optional for such entities. An organization seeking to be treated as an
eligible organization for purposes of the optional accommodation may
self-certify (by using EBSA Form 700), prior to the beginning of the
first plan year to which an accommodation is to apply, that it meets
the definition of an eligible organization. The eligible organization
must provide a copy of its self-certification to each health insurance
issuer that would otherwise provide such coverage in connection with
the health plan (for insured group health plans or student health
insurance coverage). The issuer that receives the self-certification
must provide separate payments for contraceptive services for plan
participants and beneficiaries (or student enrollees and covered
dependents). For a self-insured group health plan, the self-
certification must be provided to its third party administrator, which
must provide or arrange separate payments for contraceptive services.
An eligible organization may submit a notification to the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) as an alternative to submitting EBSA
Form 700 to the eligible organization's health insurance issuer or
third party administrator. A health insurance issuer or third party
administrator providing or arranging separate payments for
contraceptive services for participants and beneficiaries in plans (or
student enrollees and covered dependents in student health insurance
coverage) of eligible organizations must provide a written notice to
such plan participants and beneficiaries (or such student enrollees and
covered dependents) informing them of the availability of such
payments.
Under the 2018 final regulations, eligible organizations can revoke
the
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accommodation process if participants and beneficiaries (or student
enrollees and covered dependents) receive written notice of such
revocation from the issuer or third party administrator, and such
revocation will be effective on the first day of the first plan year
that begins on or after 30 days after the date of revocation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is requesting an
extension of OMB approval for the data collections included in this
information collection request. HHS will only implement the information
collections to the extent they are consistent with regulations that are
in effect. Form Number: CMS-10653 (OMB control number: 0938-1344);
Frequency: Occasionally; Affected Public: Private Sector; Number of
Respondents: 60; Total Annual Responses: 595,312; Total Annual Hours:
72. (For policy questions regarding this collection contact Russell
Tipps at 301-869-3502.)
William N. Parham, III,
Director, Division of Information Collections and Regulatory Impacts,
Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-07302 Filed 4-25-25; 8:45 am]
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