Privacy Act of 1974; Report of a Modified or Altered System of Records

Résumé

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to modify or alter an existing SOR, "Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRF) Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI)," System No. 09-70-1518, last published at 66 Federal Register 56681 (November 9, 2001). Information maintained in this system will continue to contain clinical assessment information for all Medicare Part A fee-for-service patients receiving the services of a Medicare approved IRF. This information will be useful in developing core measures that provide meaningful information on patient characteristics and outcomes across post-acute care settings and will be used by CMS to fulfill its responsibility for validating surveys conducted by accrediting agencies. We propose to assign a new CMS identification number to this system to simplify the obsolete and confusing numbering system originally designed to identify the Bureau, Office, or Center that maintained information in the Health Care Financing Administration systems of records. The new assigned identifying number for this system should read: System No. 09-70-0521. We propose to modify existing routine use number 1 that permits disclosure to agency contr