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OMB Control No: 0938-0568	ICR Reference No: 202306-0938-009
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202203-0938-013
Agency/Subagency: HHS/CMS	Agency Tracking No: OEDA
Title: Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) (CMS-P-0015A)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 09/12/2023
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 06/26/2023
Terms of Clearance: Prior to the re-submission of the information collection (IC) “Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)” (0938-0568), CMS will develop, cognitively test, propose to add a set of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) focused questions on the beneficiary centric policies in the 2025 survey. These additional questions could ask about awareness and use of newly introduced benefits such as the elimination of vaccine cost sharing, annual out-of-pocket spending cap, and/or out-of-pocket smoothing. CMS will design these questions based other its recent experience with similar questions such as those focus Medicare Saving Programs and other programs focused on increasing access to care. Also, CMS will assess linguistic preferences across the Medicare population and translate this IC into additional languages as appropriate in order to increase access and reduce health disparities.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2025	36 Months From Approved	08/31/2025
Responses	35,015	0	35,998
Time Burden (Hours)	34,368	0	46,513
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	35,015	35,998	-983
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	34,368	46,513	-12,145
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: The burden is reduced from prior estimates based on several factors. The expected number of completes in 2024 is lower than in the previous clearance by 983 interviews, thereby resulting in reduced annual burden estimates. The annual burden change from the current clearance, reflecting the increased burden of adding 14 new questions, and the decreased burden of reducing COVID-19 items in the Community and Facility instruments and using the most current survey actuals for projected interview completes and survey length. In sum, the reduction is due in part to the reduction of COVID-19 content as well as the use of the most current projections of number of completed interviews and survey length.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $23,297,759

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? Yes

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Stephan McKenzie 410 786-1943 stephan.mckenzie@cms.hhs.gov