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end of each planned presentation and
during a separate question and answer
session as time permits. In addition,
questions related to the OMHA-level of
the Medicare claim appeals process will
also be accepted on the attendee
registration, for potential response
during the appropriate presentation.
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B. Conference Call, Live Streaming, and
Webinar Information
For participants who cannot attend
the OMHA Medicare Appellant Forum
in person, there may be an option to
view and participate in the OMHA
Medicare Appellant Forum via live
streaming technology and/or a webinar.
Information on the whether these
capabilities will be available as part of
this forum will be posted on the OMHA
Web site at: https://www.hhs.gov/omha/
index.html. Please continue to check the
Web site for updates on this upcoming
event.
Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee
reliability for live streaming technology
and/or a webinar.
III. Registration Instructions
The OMHA Executive Office is
coordinating attendee registration for
the OMHA Medicare Appellant Forum.
While there is no registration fee,
individuals planning to attend the
forum must register to attend. In-person
participation is limited to two (2)
representatives from each organization.
Additional individuals can participate
by telephone conference or webinar if
these services are made available.
Information on participation by
telephone conference or webinar will be
posted on the OMHA Web site at:
https://www.hhs.gov/omha/.
Registration may be completed online at
the following web address: https://
www.hhs.gov/omha/. Seating
capacity for in-person attendees is
limited to the first 400 registrants.
After completing the registration,
online registrants will receive a
confirmation email which they should
bring with them to the meeting(s). If you
are unable to register online, you may
register by sending an email to
OSOMHAAppellantForum@hhs.gov.
Please include your first and last name,
title, organization, address, office
telephone number, and email address. If
seating capacity has been reached, you
will be notified that the meeting has
reached capacity.
IV. Security, Building, and Parking
Guidelines
Because the OMHA Medicare
Appellant Forum will be conducted on
Federal property, for security reasons,
any persons wishing to attend these
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meetings must register by the date
specified in the DATES section of this
notice. Please allow sufficient time to go
through the security checkpoints. It is
suggested that you arrive at the Wilbur
J. Cohen building, located at 330
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20024, no later than 9:30 a.m. e.s.t.
if you are attending the forum in person
so that you will be able to arrive
promptly for the meeting.
Security measures include the
following:
• Presentation of photographic
identification to the Federal Protective
Service or Guard Service personnel.
• Passing through a metal detector
and inspection of items brought into the
building. We note that all items brought
to the Cohen Building, whether personal
or for the purpose of demonstration or
to support a demonstration, are subject
to inspection. We cannot assume
responsibility for coordinating the
receipt, transfer, transport, storage, setup, safety, or timely arrival of any
personal belongings or items used for
demonstration or to support a
demonstration.
Note: Individuals who are not registered in
advance will not be permitted to enter the
building and will be unable to attend the
forum in person. The public may not enter
the building earlier than 45 minutes prior to
the convening of the forum.
Attendees must enter the Cohen
Building thru the C-Street entrance and
proceed to the registration desk. All
visitors must be escorted in areas other
than the auditorium area and access to
the rest rooms on the same level in the
building. Seating capacity is limited to
the first 400 registrants.
Parking in Federal buildings is not
available for this event. In addition,
street side and commercial parking is
extremely limited in the downtown
area. Attendees are advised to use
Metro-rail to either the Federal Center
SW station (Blue/Orange line) or the
L’Enfant Plaza station (Yellow/Green or
Blue/Orange lines). The Wilbur J. Cohen
building is approximately 11⁄2 blocks
from each of these Metro-rail stops.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program No. 93.770, Medicare—Prescription
Drug Coverage; Program No. 93.773,
Medicare—Hospital Insurance; and Program
No. 93.774, Medicare—Supplementary
Medical Insurance Program)
Dated: December 24, 2013.
Nancy J. Griswold,
Chief Administrative Law Judge, Office of
Medicare Hearings and Appeals.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–14–0892]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call (404) 639–7570 or send an
email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806.
Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)
Surveillance (0920–0892, Expiration 07/
31/2014)—Extension—National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Steady increases in the rate and
severity of Clostridium difficile
infection (CDI) indicate a clear need to
conduct longitudinal assessments to
continue to monitor changes in CDI
epidemiology, including changes in risk
factors for disease, as well as increases
in incidence and severity of illness
related to this pathogen.
The title and the goals of the project
have remained the same since the
publication of the 60-day Federal
Register Notice and there were no
changes in burden estimates or data
collection forms from what is shown in
the current inventory.
The surveillance population will
consist of persons residing in the
catchment area of the participating
Emerging Infections Program (EIP) sites
who are 1 year of age or older. This
surveillance poses no more than
minimal risk to the study participants as
there will be no interventions or
modifications to the care study
participants receive.
EIP surveillance personnel will
perform active case finding from
laboratory reports of stool specimens
testing positive for C. difficile toxin and
abstract data on cases using a
standardized case report form. For a
subset of cases (e.g., communityassociated C. difficile cases) sites will
administer a health interview.
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A total of 600 individuals who
develop CDI will be contacted for a
telephone interview annually and, of
those, it is estimated that 500 will meet
study inclusion criteria. The interview
screening is estimated to take 5 minutes
and the full telephone interview is
estimated to take 40 minutes. Therefore,
the total estimated annualized burden
for this data collection is estimated to be
383 hours.
There are no costs to the respondents
other than their time.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Persons in the community infected with C. difficile ................
Screening Form .....................
Telephone interview ...............
Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Background and Brief Description
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
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Proposed Project—Coal Workers’
Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP)
(OMB Control No. 0920–0200,
Expiration 06/30/2014)—Revision—
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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NIOSH would like to submit an
Information Collection Request (ICR) to
revise the data collection instruments
being utilized within the Coal Workers’
Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP).
The current ICR incorporates all four
components that fall under the CWHSP.
Those four components include: Coal
Workers’ X-ray Surveillance Program
(CWXSP), B Reader Program, Enhanced
Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance
Program (ECWHSP), and National Coal
Workers’ Autopsy Study (NCWAS). The
CWHSP is a congressionally-mandated
medical examination program for
monitoring the health of underground
coal miners, established under the
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety
Act of 1969, as amended in 1977 and
2006, Public Law 95–164 (the Act). The
Act provides the regulatory authority for
the administration of the CWHSP. This
Program is useful in providing
information for protecting the health of
miners (whose participation is entirely
voluntary), and also in documenting
trends and patterns in the prevalence of
coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (‘‘black
lung disease’’) among miners employed
in U.S. coal mines. The total estimated
annualized burden hours of 4,420 is
based on the following:
• Coal Mine Operators Plan (2.10)—
Under 42 CFR Part 37.4, every coal
operator and construction contractor for
each underground coal mine must
submit a coal mine operator’s plan every
3 years, providing information on how
they plan to notify their miners of the
opportunity to obtain the chest
radiographic examination. To complete
this form with all requested information
(including a roster of current
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500
Number of
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Average
burden per
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(in hrs.)
5/60
40/60
employees) takes approximately 30
minutes.
• Facility Certification Document
(2.11)—X-ray facilities seeking NIOSHapproval to provide miner radiographs
under the CWHSP must complete an
approval packet which requires
approximately 30 minutes for
completion.
• Miner Identification Document
(2.9)—Miners who elect to participate in
the CWHSP must fill out this document
which requires approximately 20
minutes. This document records
demographic and occupational history,
as well as information required under
the regulations from x-ray facilities in
relation to coal miner examinations. In
addition to completing this form, the
process of capturing the chest image
takes approximately 15 minutes.
• Chest Radiograph Classification
Form (2.8)—Under 42 CFR Part 37,
NIOSH utilizes a radiographic
classification system developed by the
International Labour Office (ILO), in the
determination of pneumoconiosis
among underground coal miners.
Physicians (B Readers) fill out this form
regarding their interpretations of the
radiographs (each image has at least two
separate interpretations). Based on prior
practice it takes the physician
approximately 3 minutes per form.
• Physician Application for
Certification (2.12)—Physicians taking
the B Reader examination are asked to
complete this registration form which
provides demographic information as
well as information regarding their
medical practices. It typically takes the
physician about 10 minutes to complete
this form.
• Spirometry Testing—Miners
participating in the ECWHSP
component of the Program are asked to
perform a spirometry test which
requires no additional paperwork on the
part of the miner, but does require
approximately 15 to 20 minutes for the
test itself. Since spirometry testing is
offered as part of the ECWHSP only, the
2,500 respondents listed in the burden
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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2013-31478]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-14-0892]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Surveillance (0920-0892,
Expiration 07/31/2014)--Extension--National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Steady increases in the rate and severity of Clostridium difficile
infection (CDI) indicate a clear need to conduct longitudinal
assessments to continue to monitor changes in CDI epidemiology,
including changes in risk factors for disease, as well as increases in
incidence and severity of illness related to this pathogen.
The title and the goals of the project have remained the same since
the publication of the 60-day Federal Register Notice and there were no
changes in burden estimates or data collection forms from what is shown
in the current inventory.
The surveillance population will consist of persons residing in the
catchment area of the participating Emerging Infections Program (EIP)
sites who are 1 year of age or older. This surveillance poses no more
than minimal risk to the study participants as there will be no
interventions or modifications to the care study participants receive.
EIP surveillance personnel will perform active case finding from
laboratory reports of stool specimens testing positive for C. difficile
toxin and abstract data on cases using a standardized case report form.
For a subset of cases (e.g., community-associated C. difficile cases)
sites will administer a health interview.
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A total of 600 individuals who develop CDI will be contacted for a
telephone interview annually and, of those, it is estimated that 500
will meet study inclusion criteria. The interview screening is
estimated to take 5 minutes and the full telephone interview is
estimated to take 40 minutes. Therefore, the total estimated annualized
burden for this data collection is estimated to be 383 hours.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in
respondent hrs.)
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Persons in the community infected with Screening Form.......... 600 1 5/60
C. difficile.
Telephone interview..... 500 1 40/60
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Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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