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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Extension of Provider Reimbursement
Demonstration Project for the State of
Alaska
Department of Defense (DoD).
Notice of demonstration
extension.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice provides an
extension of the demonstration project
in the State of Alaska for individual
provider payment rates. Under the
demonstration, payment rates for
physicians and other non-institutional
individual professional providers in the
State of Alaska have been set at a rate
higher than the Medicare rate.
DATES: The demonstration regarding
payment rates for physicians and other
non-institutional providers is extended
through December 31, 2012.
ADDRESSES: TRICARE Management
Activity (TMA), Medical Benefits and
Reimbursement Branch, 16401 East
Centretech Parkway, Aurora, CO 80011–
9066.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Glenn J. Corn, TRICARE Management
Activity, Medical Benefits and
Reimbursement Branch, telephone (303)
676–3566.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
November 20, 2006, DoD published a
notice of a TRICARE demonstration
project for the State of Alaska, with an
effective date of January 1, 2007 (71 FR
67113), to set payment rates for
physicians and other non-institutional
individual professional providers in the
State of Alaska at a rate higher than the
Medicare rate. The demonstration was
effective January 1, 2007 for a period of
three years, ending on December 31,
2009. On December 18, 2009, DoD
published a Notice of demonstration
extension (74 FR 67179) that extended
the demonstration through December
31, 2010. The DoD has determined that
increasing provider payment rates
(factor rate increase) in Alaska, across
all services, has shown mixed results on
provider participation, beneficiary
access to care, cost of health care
services, military readiness, and morale
and welfare. Due to recent Health Care
Reform legislation (section 5104, Pub. L.
111–148), creating an interagency task
force to assess and improve access to
health care in the State of Alaska, the
Agency has determined further
extension of the Demonstration is
needed pending receipt of the Task
Force’s report. The report is due to
Congress no later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of the Act that details
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the activities of the Task Force and
contains the findings, strategies,
recommendations, policies, and
initiatives developed. The Agency needs
time after the Task Force’s report to
review the recommendations and
determine appropriate related actions;
therefore, we are extending the
Demonstration through December 31,
2012. The demonstration continues to
be conducted under statutory authority
provided in 10 United States Code 1092.
Dated: July 2, 2010.
Mitchell S. Bryman,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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Dated: July 2, 2010.
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Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
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SUMMARY: The Director, Information
Collection Clearance Division,
Regulatory Information Management
Services, Office of Management, invites
comments on the proposed information
collection requests as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
September 7, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
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would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
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statutory obligations. The Director,
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Management, publishes that notice
containing proposed information
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of these requests to OMB. Each
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following: (1) Type of review requested,
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AGENCY:
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Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
The Department of Education is
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
this collection necessary to the proper
functions of the Department; (2) will
this information be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate
of burden accurate; (4) how might the
Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this
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Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Title: Annual Performance Reports for
Title III and Title V Programs.
OMB #: 1840–0766.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
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Responses: 891.
Burden Hours: 17,460.
Abstract: Titles III and V programs
authorized by the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (HEA), as amended, provide
discretionary and formula grants to
approximately 40 percent of eligible
institutions of higher education and
organizations (MSEIP–Title III, E only)
to support improvements in educational
quality, institutional management and
fiscal stability. The office of
Institutional Development and
Undergraduate Education Services
(IDUES) is authorized to award one year
planning grants and five-year
development grants and collect key
data, analyze, report, and evaluate
grantee and Program performance and
outcomes. Grantees submit a yearly
performance report to demonstrate that
substantial progress is being made
towards meeting the objectives of their
project and first year grantees submit an
interim (six month) report as well. This
request continues the use of a webbased performance report to more
effectively elicit program-specific
information to be used for program
monitoring, data analysis, and
Government Performance and Results
Act (GPRA) reporting purposes. The
Annual Performance Report (APR)
continues to be the cornerstone of the
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Information Management Performance
System (IMPS) tailored to strengthen the
Department of Education’s program
monitoring efforts, streamline our
processes, and enhance our customer
service to the end of meeting legislative,
regulatory, and directive requirements.
The colleges and communities served
by Titles III and V of the HEA include:
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU); Historically Black
Graduate Institutions (HBGI); HispanicServing Institutions (HSI); American
Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and
Universities (TCCU); Alaska NativeServing Institutions; Native HawaiianServing Institutions; Asian American
and Native American Pacific IslanderServing Institutions (AANAPISI); Native
American-Serving Nontribal Institutions
(NASNTI); and other institutions that
serve a significant number of minority
and financially disadvantaged students
and have low average and general
expenditures per student.
There are major forces continuing to
drive the APR: (1) The need to improve
the quality and effectiveness of our
program monitoring efforts; (2) the need
to provide more reliable and valid data
for the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA); (3) the need to
evaluate grantee and Program
effectiveness; and (4) capacity building
efforts toward a Title III and Title V
community of practice. The Office of
Inspector General (IG) has identified
repeatedly the aforementioned needs as
areas that IDUES should resolve. For the
past seven years, IDUES has been
focused on addressing these areas and
has designed this APR as the data
collection tool of the Information
Management Performance System
platform.
The APR supports IDUES IMPS as the
database tool of our monitoring
oversight, analysis, evaluation, trend
and profile reporting of grant and
program life cycle performance.
According the IG audit ED–OIG/A04–
90013 (‘‘Office of Higher Education
Programs Needs to Improve its
Oversight of Parts A and B of the Title
III Program’’), ‘‘[Higher Education
Programs] needs a systematic approach
to effectively and efficiently monitor
Title III grantees for compliance and
program performance.’’ With this
methodical approach to program
monitoring, IDUES is significantly
reducing the risk of grantees using
federal funds inappropriately and better
ensuring that grant objectives are being
met. In our most recent collection
grantees indicated that only one percent
of grantees requested a change to
scheduled objectives and 57 percent of
grantee objectives were on schedule of
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Extension of Provider Reimbursement Demonstration Project for the
State of Alaska
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice of demonstration extension.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides an extension of the demonstration project
in the State of Alaska for individual provider payment rates. Under the
demonstration, payment rates for physicians and other non-institutional
individual professional providers in the State of Alaska have been set
at a rate higher than the Medicare rate.
DATES: The demonstration regarding payment rates for physicians and
other non-institutional providers is extended through December 31,
2012.
ADDRESSES: TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), Medical Benefits and
Reimbursement Branch, 16401 East Centretech Parkway, Aurora, CO 80011-
9066.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Glenn J. Corn, TRICARE Management
Activity, Medical Benefits and Reimbursement Branch, telephone (303)
676-3566.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 20, 2006, DoD published a notice
of a TRICARE demonstration project for the State of Alaska, with an
effective date of January 1, 2007 (71 FR 67113), to set payment rates
for physicians and other non-institutional individual professional
providers in the State of Alaska at a rate higher than the Medicare
rate. The demonstration was effective January 1, 2007 for a period of
three years, ending on December 31, 2009. On December 18, 2009, DoD
published a Notice of demonstration extension (74 FR 67179) that
extended the demonstration through December 31, 2010. The DoD has
determined that increasing provider payment rates (factor rate
increase) in Alaska, across all services, has shown mixed results on
provider participation, beneficiary access to care, cost of health care
services, military readiness, and morale and welfare. Due to recent
Health Care Reform legislation (section 5104, Pub. L. 111-148),
creating an interagency task force to assess and improve access to
health care in the State of Alaska, the Agency has determined further
extension of the Demonstration is needed pending receipt of the Task
Force's report. The report is due to Congress no later than 180 days
after the date of enactment of the Act that details
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the activities of the Task Force and contains the findings, strategies,
recommendations, policies, and initiatives developed. The Agency needs
time after the Task Force's report to review the recommendations and
determine appropriate related actions; therefore, we are extending the
Demonstration through December 31, 2012. The demonstration continues to
be conducted under statutory authority provided in 10 United States
Code 1092.
Dated: July 2, 2010.
Mitchell S. Bryman,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2010-16680 Filed 7-7-10; 8:45 am]
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