Medicare Asks Public to Comment on Their Paperwork Burden
Published Date: 1/10/2025
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your thoughts on their plan to collect some info from the public. They’re asking for comments by March 11, 2025, to make sure the process is clear, useful, and not too much work. This affects anyone who might provide info to CMS and helps keep things running smoothly without wasting time or money.
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Rural Hospital Demo Application Reinstated
CMS is reinstating the information collection (Form CMS-10069, OMB 0938-0880) for the Rural Community Hospital (RCH) Demonstration Program application and plans a new Request for Applications to fill 10 open slots. The demonstration tests cost-based payment for Medicare inpatient services for rural hospitals with fewer than 51 beds that are not eligible to be Critical Access Hospitals, currently has 20 participants of a 30-hospital maximum, is scheduled to end in 2028, and the submission burden is listed as 30 respondents and 2,400 total annual hours. Comments on the collection are due March 11, 2025.
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