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Older Adults—Extension (OMB no.
0920–0818, exp. 7/31/10)—National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC received OMB approval (0920–
0818) to collect data for the Cost and
Follow-up Assessment of Fall
Prevention Programs. This approval
expires on 7/31/10. In June 2009, all
Matter of Balance programs
implemented a new consent form. This
form asked participants for permission
for CDC to contact them six months after
they finished the program to complete a
survey. For this reason, we will not
begin administering the follow-up
survey to Matter of Balance participants
until January 2010. At this time we are
requesting a three-year extension to
collect data.
NCIPC seeks to examine cost of
implementing each of the three AoA
funded fall prevention programs for
older adults (Stepping On, Moving for
Better Balance and Matter of Balance)
and to assess the maintenance of fall
prevention behaviors among
participants six months after completing
the Matter of Balance program. To
assess the maintenance of fall
prevention behaviors, CDC will conduct
telephone interviews of 425 Matter of
Balance program participants six
months after they have completed the
program. The interview will assess their
knowledge and self-efficacy related to
falls as taught in the course, their
activity and exercise levels, and their
reported falls both before and after the
program. The results of the follow-up
assessment will determine the extent to
which preventive behaviors learned
during the Matter of Balance program
are maintained and can continue to
reduce fall risk. The cost assessment
will calculate the lifecycle cost of the
Stepping On, Moving for Better Balance,
and Matter of Balance programs. It will
also include calculating the investment
costs required to implement each
program, as well as the ongoing
operational costs associated with each
program. These costs will be allocated
over a defined period of time,
depending on the average or standard
amount of time these programs continue
to operate (standard lifecycle analysis
ranges from five to 10 years). As part of
the lifecycle cost calculation, these data
will allow us to compare program costs
and to identify specific cost drivers, cost
risks, and unique financial attributes of
each program. Local program
coordinators for the 200 sites in each of
the AoA-funded states will collect the
cost data using lifecycle cost
spreadsheets that will be returned to
CDC for analysis. The results of these
studies will support the replication and
dissemination of these fall prevention
programs and enable them to reach
more older adults. The Survey Screen
takes 3 minutes, the survey instrument
takes forty-five minutes, and the cost
tool takes two hours to complete.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated annual burden is 248 hours.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Follow-up Survey Screen for Matter of Balance—Introduction Script ........................................
Follow-up Survey for Matter of Balance ......................................................................................
Cost assessment of AoA-funded fall prevention programs .........................................................
Dated: February 4, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
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AGENCY: Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA).
ACTION: Notice of rescinded Policy
Notice 99–02, Amendment #1.
SUMMARY: The HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau
(HAB) Policy Notice 99–02 established
general policies regarding the use of
Title XXVI of the Public Health Service
(PHS) Act, Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program funds for housing referral
services and short-term or emergency
housing needs. Amendment #1 to Policy
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Following
the rescission of Amendment #1 to
Policy Notice 99–02, Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program, grantees will not be
required to enforce the amendment for
beneficiaries that might be at or near the
24-month cumulative cap on short-term
and emergency housing assistance. At
the same time, grantees will benefit
from general policy guidance with
regard to the use of Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program funds for housing referral
services and short-term or emergency
housing needs. A comprehensive review
of the Housing Policy will permit
HRSA’s Administrator time to evaluate
completely all aspects of it. The Policy
Notice is amended to address updated
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
HIV/AIDS Bureau; Policy Notice 99–02
Amendment #1
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Notice 99–02, effective March 27, 2008,
modified Policy Notice 99–02 by
imposing a 24-month cumulative cap on
short-term and emergency housing
assistance. HRSA’s Administrator is
undertaking a comprehensive review of
the Housing Policy, and is therefore
directing that Amendment #1 to Policy
Notice 99–02 be rescinded, effective
immediately.
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nomenclature, and is reprinted below
for ease of reference.
DATES: Amendment #1 to Policy Notice
99–02 is rescinded effective February
10, 2010.
HRSA and HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Policy Notice 99–02
Document Title: The Use of Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program Funds for Housing
Referral Services and Short-Term or
Emergency Housing Needs
The following Policy establishes
guidelines for allowable housing-related
expenditures under the Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program. The purpose of all
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds is
to ensure that eligible HIV-infected
persons and families gain or maintain
access to medical care.
A. Funds received under the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program (Title XXVI of
the PHS Act) may be used for the
following housing expenditures:
i. Housing referral services defined as
assessment, search, placement, and
advocacy services must be provided by
case managers or other professionals
who possess a comprehensive
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knowledge of local, State, and Federal
housing programs and how they can be
accessed; or
ii. Short-term or emergency housing
defined as necessary to gain or maintain
access to medical care and must be
related to either:
a. Housing services that include some
type of medical or supportive service:
including, but not limited to, residential
substance abuse or mental health
services (not including facilities
classified as an Institute of Mental
Diseases under Medicaid), residential
foster care, and assisted living
residential services; or
b. Housing services that do not
provide direct medical or supportive
services, but are essential for an
individual or family to gain or maintain
access and compliance with HIV-related
medical care and treatment. Necessity of
housing services for purposes of
medical care must be certified or
documented.
B. Short-term or emergency assistance
is understood as transitional in nature
and for purposes of moving or
maintaining an individual or family in
a long-term, stable living situation.
Thus, such assistance cannot be
permanent and must be accompanied by
a strategy to identify, relocate, and/or
ensure the individual or family is
moved to, or capable of maintaining, a
long-term, stable living situation.
C. Housing funds cannot be in the
form of direct cash payments to
recipients for services and cannot be
used for mortgage payments.
D. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program must be the payer of last resort.
In addition, funds received under the
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program must be
used to supplement, but not supplant
funds currently being used from local,
State, and Federal Agency programs.
Grantees must be capable of providing
HAB with documentation related to the
use of funds as the payer of last resort
and the coordination of such funds with
other local, State, and Federal funds.
E. Housing-related expenses are
limited to Parts A, B, and D of the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program, and are not
allowable expenses under Part C.
Dated: February 5, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Expert Meeting on Measurement
Criteria for Children’s Health Insurance
Program; Reauthorization Act Pediatric
Quality Measures
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
meeting to identify measurement
criteria for use in carrying out the
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
(PQMP) under Section 1139A(b) of the
Social Security Act as enacted in the
Children’s Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA).
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, February
25, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality Eisenberg
Building, 540 Gaither Rd., Rockville,
MD 20850 and by public webcast.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maushami DeSoto, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, 540
Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland
20850, (301) 427–1546. For press-related
information, please contact Karen
Migdail at (301) 427–1855.
If sign language interpretation or other
reasonable accommodation for a
disability is needed, please contact Mr.
Michael Chew, Director, Office of Equal
Employment Opportunity Program,
Program Support Center, on (301) 443–
1144, no later than February 20, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Purpose
In early 2009, CHIPRA (Pub. L. 111–
3) reauthorized the Child Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) originally
established in 1997, and in Title IV of
the law, added a number of new
provisions designed to improve health
care quality and outcomes for children.
AHRQ is working closely with the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) and the CHIPRA Federal
Quality Workgroup in implementing
these provisions. For more information
about AHRQ’s role in carrying out the
quality provisions of CHIPRA, and for a
list of an initial core set of children’s
healthcare quality measures voluntary
use by Medicaid programs and
Children’s Health Insurance Programs
and the health plans and providers of
care that the programs engage with,
mandated by the Act, that has been
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identified and posted for public
comment, see https://www.ahrg.gov/
chip/chipraact.htm.
CHIPRA further directed the Secretary
to establish a Pediatric Quality
Measures Program (PQMP) to strengthen
and expand the initial core measure set
required under its section 401(a). The
statutory goal of the PQMP is to produce
an improved core set of children’s
healthcare quality measures for use by
public and private programs, health
insurers, providers and patients, by
January 1, 2013. In order to achieve this
goal, measurement criteria to develop
and enhance pediatric health care
measures need to be identified and
framed for use by those who will be
developing and enhancing the measures
under the PQMP. The PQMP objectives
are to: Expand, improve and strengthen
the initial core measure set and existing
pediatric measures used by public and
private health care purchasers and
advance the development of new and
emerging quality measures; and thereby,
increase the portfolio of evidence-based
and consensus-based, pediatric quality
measures available to public and private
purchasers of children’s health care
services, providers, and consumers as
well as for use by policymakers at all
political levels, including use in
mandated reports to Congress on
voluntary State reporting and on any
need for further legislation.
In accordance with statutory
requirements, the measures to be
developed or enhanced under this
program will cover a range of pediatric
preventive services, treatments and
services for both acute and chronic
conditions, including health services to
correct or ameliorate the effects of
physical and mental conditions; and
health services to aid in the growth and
development of children with special
health care needs; and measure and
duration of health care coverage. Said
measures are to be designed to ensure
that data collected are comparable at the
State, health plan and provider levels,
risk-adjusted if appropriate, and
periodically updated. In addition,
pursuant to section 401(s) of CHIPRA,
measures are to be able to identify
disparities by race and ethnicity,
socioeconomic status, and special
healthcare needs.
II. Agenda
On Wednesday, February 24, 2010,
the meeting will convene at 10 a.m. The
meeting will focus on engaging invited
experts and public participants in
identifying criteria for pediatric quality
measures to be used by PQMP grant and
contract program awardees beginning in
September 2010. The agenda will cover
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
HIV/AIDS Bureau; Policy Notice 99-02 Amendment 1
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
ACTION: Notice of rescinded Policy Notice 99-02, Amendment 1.
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SUMMARY: The HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) Policy Notice 99-02 established
general policies regarding the use of Title XXVI of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds for housing
referral services and short-term or emergency housing needs. Amendment
1 to Policy Notice 99-02, effective March 27, 2008, modified
Policy Notice 99-02 by imposing a 24-month cumulative cap on short-term
and emergency housing assistance. HRSA's Administrator is undertaking a
comprehensive review of the Housing Policy, and is therefore directing
that Amendment 1 to Policy Notice 99-02 be rescinded,
effective immediately.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following the rescission of Amendment
1 to Policy Notice 99-02, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program,
grantees will not be required to enforce the amendment for
beneficiaries that might be at or near the 24-month cumulative cap on
short-term and emergency housing assistance. At the same time, grantees
will benefit from general policy guidance with regard to the use of
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds for housing referral services and
short-term or emergency housing needs. A comprehensive review of the
Housing Policy will permit HRSA's Administrator time to evaluate
completely all aspects of it. The Policy Notice is amended to address
updated nomenclature, and is reprinted below for ease of reference.
DATES: Amendment 1 to Policy Notice 99-02 is rescinded
effective February 10, 2010.
HRSA and HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) Policy Notice 99-02
Document Title: The Use of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Funds for
Housing Referral Services and Short-Term or Emergency Housing Needs
The following Policy establishes guidelines for allowable housing-
related expenditures under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The purpose
of all Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds is to ensure that eligible
HIV-infected persons and families gain or maintain access to medical
care.
A. Funds received under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (Title XXVI
of the PHS Act) may be used for the following housing expenditures:
i. Housing referral services defined as assessment, search,
placement, and advocacy services must be provided by case managers or
other professionals who possess a comprehensive
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knowledge of local, State, and Federal housing programs and how they
can be accessed; or
ii. Short-term or emergency housing defined as necessary to gain or
maintain access to medical care and must be related to either:
a. Housing services that include some type of medical or supportive
service: including, but not limited to, residential substance abuse or
mental health services (not including facilities classified as an
Institute of Mental Diseases under Medicaid), residential foster care,
and assisted living residential services; or
b. Housing services that do not provide direct medical or
supportive services, but are essential for an individual or family to
gain or maintain access and compliance with HIV-related medical care
and treatment. Necessity of housing services for purposes of medical
care must be certified or documented.
B. Short-term or emergency assistance is understood as transitional
in nature and for purposes of moving or maintaining an individual or
family in a long-term, stable living situation. Thus, such assistance
cannot be permanent and must be accompanied by a strategy to identify,
relocate, and/or ensure the individual or family is moved to, or
capable of maintaining, a long-term, stable living situation.
C. Housing funds cannot be in the form of direct cash payments to
recipients for services and cannot be used for mortgage payments.
D. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program must be the payer of last
resort. In addition, funds received under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program must be used to supplement, but not supplant funds currently
being used from local, State, and Federal Agency programs. Grantees
must be capable of providing HAB with documentation related to the use
of funds as the payer of last resort and the coordination of such funds
with other local, State, and Federal funds.
E. Housing-related expenses are limited to Parts A, B, and D of the
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, and are not allowable expenses under Part
C.
Dated: February 5, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2010-2926 Filed 2-9-10; 8:45 am]
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