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CMS-1403-FC
completing and submitting this application is currently
approved under OMB control number 0938-0685 with an
expiration date of February 28, 2011. We believe that most
of these mobile entities are already enrolled as IDTFs, as
required in §410.33(g).
However, we have no way to accurately quantify the
burden because we cannot estimate the number of this type
of requests that we may receive. We did not receive any
public comments to assist us in our burden analysis. We
also recognize that we will not be able to determine the
number of the IDTFs that are billing only under arrangement
with a hospital. Therefore, while we acknowledge that
there is a burden associated with this provision, we also
acknowledge that we have no way to quantify this
provision’s burden. For that reason, we are assigning
1 token burden hour to this requirement until such a time
that we can conduct an accurate burden analysis for this
information collection requirement.
B. ICRs Regarding Exception to the Referral Prohibition
Related to Compensation Arrangements (§411.357)
As discussed in section II.N.1. of the preamble of
this final rule with comment period, we are not finalizing
the exception for incentive payment and shared savings
programs contained in §411.357(x). Consequently, we have
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