CMS Seeks Public Input on Another Routine Information Collection
Published Date: 6/17/2025
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 info they gather is useful and not too much work for anyone. If you have thoughts, you’ve got until July 17, 2025, to share them—helping keep things clear and efficient for everyone involved!
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Vaccine Education and Documentation in ICFs‑IID
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs‑IID) must continue to educate clients about COVID‑19 vaccine benefits and risks, offer the vaccine to clients and staff, and document the education and whether clients received the vaccine in clients' medical records. Documentation for staff vaccination status was removed when the staff vaccine mandate was eliminated; the reinstatement estimates industry burden as 75,721 total annual hours and $5,470,418 in annual burden costs for 5,523 respondents. (Key dates mentioned: May 13, 2021; November 2021; June 5, 2023; COVID‑19 public health emergency ended May 2023.)
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Health plans and issuers must use a rescission notice to give advance warning to certain individuals that their coverage may be rescinded for fraud or intentional misrepresentation. They must also provide a patient protection notification to tell people about their right to choose a primary care provider or pediatrician and to use obstetrical/gynecological services without prior authorization. (Form CMS-10330; OMB control number 0938-1094; Number of Respondents: 82,638; Total Annual Responses: 13,741,303; Total Annual Hours: 10.)
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