Sections 2723 and 2761 of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce a provision (or provisions) of title XXVII of the PHS Act (including the implementing regulations in parts 144, 146, 147, and 148 of title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations) with respect to health insurance issuers when a state has notified CMS that it has not enacted legislation to enforce or that it is not otherwise enforcing a provision (or provisions) of the group and individual market reforms with respect to health insurance issuers, or when CMS has determined that a state is not substantially enforcing one or more of those provisions. This collection of information includes requirements that are necessary for CMS to conduct compliance review activities.
There are program burden changes in this collection. As indicated in the Background section, this revised burden is a result of new statutory requirements under title XXVII of the PHS Act. With respect to health insurance issuer burden in a state in which CMS is enforcing any of the requirements under title XXVII of the PHS Act, we revised the burden estimate to reflect that CMS is currently enforcing these requirements in 5 states. We also revised the burden estimates for other requirements since they are now applicable to issuers in the U.S. territories or expatriate plans only. One requirement is being discontinued. Therefore, the total burden is now revised from 3,760,421 hours to 2,555 hours, a total reduction of 3,757,866 hours.
$3,700,000
No
No
Yes
No
No
Uncollected
Jamaa Hill 301 492-4190
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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