CMS Proposed Data Collections

This Federal Register notice includes four different data collections. The first two are extensions of existing data collections. The third and fourth are new data collections. 3. Hospital Leadership Quality Assessment Tool -- In 2006, the Hospital Leadership Collaborative (HLC) launched a public-private partnership to develop a CMS-endorsed self-assessment tool, ``The Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool'' (HLQAT) to assist hospitals in the improvement of quality through enhanced hospital governance, executive, physician, and clinical engagement. Hospitals leaders will take the HLQAT instrument via Web-based technology. This function will be carried out in conjunction with CMS and the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) 9th Scope of Work (SOW), to convey the importance of this effort in relation to Medicare and other public priorities. This administration of the HLQAT seeks responses from approximately a dozen leaders in each hospital, including physicians (e.g., CEO, CMO), board members, director-level, and mid-level clinical managers--these responses can provide a multi-level representation of hospital leadership showing its commitment to institutional change. 4. Emergency and Non-Emergency Ambulance Transports and Beneficiary Signature -- The exception allows ambulance providers and suppliers to sign the claim on behalf of the beneficiary, at the time of transport, provided that certain documentation requirements are met. The current submission of this information collection request relates to the collection of documentation pertaining to non-emergency ambulance transports. In addition, we are updating the collection of information that relates to the collection of documentation pertaining to emergency ambulance transports.