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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices
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wages, number of home health agencies and number of OASIS assessments at each time point. Form Number: CMS
10545 OMB control number: 0938
1279; Frequency: Occasionally;
Affected Public: Private Sector Business or other for-profit and Not-for-profit institutions; Number of Respondents:
11,400; Total Annual Responses:
17,932,166; Total Annual Hours:
9,893,376. For policy questions regarding this collection contact Joan Proctor at 4107860949.
2. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of currently approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Granting and Withdrawal of Deeming Authority to Private Nonprofit Accreditation Organizations and CLIA Exemption Under State Laboratory Programs; Use:
The information required is necessary to determine whether a private accreditation organization/State licensure program standards and accreditation/licensure process is at least equal to or more stringent than those of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
CLIA. If an accreditation organization is approved, the laboratories that it accredits are deemed to meet the CLIA requirements based on this accreditation. Similarly, if a State licensure program is determined to have requirements that are equal to or more stringent than those of CLIA, its laboratories are considered to be exempt from CLIA certification and requirements. The information collected will be used by HHS to: Determine comparability/equivalency of the accreditation organization standards and policies or State licensure program standards and policies to those of the CLIA program; to ensure the continued comparability/equivalency of the standards; and to fulfill certain statutory reporting requirements. Form Number:
CMSR185 OMB control number:
09380686; Frequency: Occasionally;
Affected Public: Private Sector Business or other for-profits and Notfor-profit institutions; Number of Respondents: 9; Total Annual Responses: 9; Total Annual Hours:
5,464. For policy questions regarding this collection contact Arlene Lopez at 4107866782.
Dated: July 26, 2021.
William N. Parham, III, Director, Paperwork Reduction Staff, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Document Identifier: CMS10500

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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 agencys 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.

SUMMARY:

Comments on the collections of information must be received by the OMB desk officer by August 30, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function.
To obtain copies of a supporting statement and any related forms for the proposed collections summarized in this notice, you may make your request using one of following:
1. Access CMS website address at website address at: https
www.cms.gov/Regulations-andGuidance/Legislation/
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Parham at 410 7864669.
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA
44 U.S.C. 35013520, 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.
35023 and 5 CFR 1320.3c and includes agency requests or requirements that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party. Section 3506c2A of the PRA 44 U.S.C.
3506c2A 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 collections of information for public comment:
1. Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently approved information collection; Title of Information Collection: National Implementation of the Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems OAS CAHPS Survey; Use:
The national implementation of OAS
CAHPS is designed to allow third-party, CMS-approved survey vendors to administer OAS CAHPS using mailonly, telephone-only, mixed-mode mail with telephone follow-up, mixed-mode web with mail follow-up, or mixedmode web with telephone follow-up.
The information collected in the OAS
CAHPS will be used for the following purposes:
To provide a source of information from which selected measures can be publicly reported to beneficiaries to help them make informed decisions for outpatient surgery facility selection;
To aid facilities with their internal quality improvement efforts and external benchmarking with other facilities; and To provide CMS with information for monitoring and public reporting purposes.
CMS established a reporting program in which ASCs and HOPDs can choose to participate in the survey and also choose whether or not to publicly report data. HOPD and ASC facilities that choose to participate contract with a CMS-approved, independent third-party survey vendor to implement the survey on their behalf and to submit the OAS

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