Pentagon Wants to Collect Mystery Information From You
Published Date: 11/26/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Defense wants to keep collecting info from about 62,500 healthcare workers to make sure they’re properly qualified and safe. They’re asking for permission to continue this process, which takes about 4 hours per response, and they want your comments by December 26, 2025. This helps keep military healthcare top-notch without costing extra money right now.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
4-Hour Paperwork Burden for 62,500 Providers
The Department of Defense asks about 62,500 healthcare workers to respond to the Centralized Credentials and Quality Assurance System (CCQAS). Each respondent may submit 3 responses, for 187,500 annual responses, with an average burden of 4 hours per response and a total annual burden of 750,000 hours; responding is voluntary.
Data Used for Credentialing and Safety Oversight
DoD says the CCQAS information collection is necessary to operate, manage, evaluate, and improve clinical quality management and risk management programs. The data support credentialing, privileging, and healthcare risk management for Active Duty, Reserve, Guard, Civil Service, contractor, and volunteer direct health care providers in the Military Health System.
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