CMS Seeks Input to Cut Medicare Paperwork Load
Published Date: 11/21/2025
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your feedback on their plan to collect some info from the public. This is part of a routine check to make sure the questions they ask aren’t too much work and actually help them do their job better. If you have thoughts, you’ve got until December 22, 2025, to share them—no cost, just your voice!
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Advance Notice of Medicare Liability
If you have Medicare, the Advance Beneficiary Notice (Form CMS-R-131) tells you when a doctor, provider, or supplier expects Medicare not to pay so you know you might be billed. CMS reports this collection covers 1,723,755 respondents, 331,715,277 responses, and 38,701,221 total annual hours.
Medicare Survey Burden Reduced
If you have Medicare and take the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), CMS will remove some questionnaire items beginning in Fall 2026, which will reduce how much time respondents spend answering the survey. The MCBS clearance (Form CMS-P-0015A) lists 13,568 respondents, 35,015 responses, and 32,258 total annual hours.
QIO Notices Protect Patient Data Rights
If you are a Medicare patient, Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) will provide notices and let you request access to or amendment of data they maintain about you under the Peer Review Improvement Act. CMS lists this collection (CMS-R-70) as having 50,000 respondents, 398,388 annual responses, and 521,599 total annual hours.
Rights to QIO Reconsideration and Appeals
If you have Medicare, you (or your representative) have the right to file BFCC-QIO reconsiderations and Level 2 appeals when you believe Medicare Part A services are ending too soon; CMS lists this collection (Form CMS-R-72) with 20,129 respondents, 60,729 responses, and 22,014 total annual hours.
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