HHS Seeks Info Collection: Medicaid Program

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has asked the Office of Management and Budget to approve an extension of an information collection entitled "Medicaid Program."

A March 25, 2022, notice published in the Federal Register by William N. Parham, III, Director, Paperwork Reduction Staff, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs, opens a new 30-day public comment period.

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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: Medicaid Program; Eligibility Changes under the Affordable Care Act of 2010; Use: The State Medicaid and CHIP agencies will collect all information needed to determine and redetermine eligibility for Medicaid and will transmit information, as appropriate, to other insurance affordability programs. The information collection requirements will assist the public to understand information about health insurance affordability programs and will assist CMS in ensuring the seamless, coordinated, and simplified system of Medicaid and CHIP application, eligibility determination, verification, enrollment, and renewal. Form Number: CMS-10410 (OMB control number: 0938-1147); Frequency: Occasionally; Affected Public: Individuals or Households, and State, Local, and Tribal Governments; Number of Respondents: 25,500,096; Total Annual Responses: 76,500,218; Total Annual Hours: 21,276,302. For policy questions regarding this collection contact Suzette Seng at 410-786-4703.

2. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Children's Health Insurance Program Managed Care and Supporting Regulations; Use: CHIP enrollees use the information collected and reported as a result of this regulation to make informed choices regarding health care, including how to access health care services and the grievance and appeal system. States use the information collected and reported as part of contracting processes with managed care entities, as well as its compliance oversight role. CMS uses the information collected and reported in an oversight role of State CHIP managed care programs and CHIP state agencies. Form Number: CMS-10554 (OMB control number: 0938-1282); Frequency: Yearly; Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments, and the Private Sector (Business or other for-profits and Not-for-profit institutions); Number of Respondents: 62; Total Annual Responses: 2,735,964; Total Annual Hours: 371,710. For policy questions regarding this collection contact Amy Lutzky at 410-786-0721.

3. 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 providing contact information for participants to direct 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 147.140(g)(1) of the 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, or 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: 14,669; Total Annual Responses: 2,651,523; Total Annual Hours: 40. For policy questions regarding this collection contact Usree Bandyopadhyay at 410-786-6650.

Dated: March 22, 2022.

William N. Parham, III,

Director, Paperwork Reduction Staff, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs.

[FR Doc. 2022-06340 Filed 3-24-22; 8:45 am]

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Complete text: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/25/2022-06340/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-for-omb-review-comment-request

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