Government Asks Permission to Ask You More Questions
Published Date: 12/11/2025
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your feedback on their plan to collect some info from the public. This is a routine check to make sure the questions they ask are useful and not too much work. If you have thoughts, you’ve got until January 12, 2026, to share them—no cost, just your voice!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Hospital inpatient notice timing
If you have Medicare, hospitals must give you an initial inpatient notice (IM) within 2 calendar days of admission that explains your rights and how to ask for a discharge appeal by a Quality Improvement Organization (QIO). Hospitals must also give a signed follow-up copy no more than 2 calendar days before discharge unless the first IM was given within 2 days of discharge.
Claims appeals and external review process
CMS collects information to support internal claims and appeals and the federal external review process so claimants receive clear information about plan procedures and can get an independent external review of denied health benefit claims. This collection (CMS-10338, OMB 0938-1099) lists 91,355 respondents with 375,202 annual responses and a total annual burden of 861,785 hours.
Marketplace oversight data collection
CMS is collecting information to support oversight of qualified health plan (QHP) issuers in Federally-facilitated Exchanges to help protect against fraud and abuse. This collection is annual, identifies 503 respondents, and reports a total annual burden of 2,325,320 hours for the collection identified as CMS-10637 (OMB control number 0938-1353).
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