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within 60 days of this publication.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA)
publishes abstracts of information
collection requests under review by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of
the clearance requests submitted to
OMB for review, email
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA
Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443–
1129.
The following request has been
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget for review under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:
Proposed Project: HIV Clinician
Workforce Study (OMB No. 0915–NEW)
HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) is
planning to conduct a 24-month HIV
clinician workforce study to provide
HRSA and other state and federal
agencies with national and state-level
estimates of the number of primary care
clinicians currently providing medical
care to people living with HIV or AIDS
in the United States, as well as
projections of the magnitude of the
expected shortage or surplus of HIV
related primary care clinicians through
2015. The study will focus on the
supply and demand of health
professionals who independently
manage patients with HIV/AIDS. The
study will have two main components:
a. Design and implementation of a
forecasting model to estimate and
project the supply of and demand for
HIV clinicians at the national and
regional levels; and
b. Implementation of two surveys to
collect the information needed to
develop HIV-specific input parameters
for the forecasting model, as well as to
help address other research questions of
the study.
HRSA is requesting OMB approval to
conduct a HIV clinician survey and a
HIV practice survey. The HIV clinician
survey will focus on the individual
provider of care and will include
questions related to:
a. The clinician’s age, gender, medical
profession, and medical specialty;
b. The number of hours spent in
direct patient care;
c. The size and characteristics of HIV
patient load;
d. The primary practice
characteristics and patient management
strategies; and
e. The plans to increase or decrease
number of hours spent in direct patient
care, as well as plans for retirement.
The HIV practice survey will also
focus on the practice site and will
include questions related to type and
size of clinic, clinic specialty and
affiliation, number and acuity of
patients, number and composition of
staff, type of staffing model and patient
management strategies, meaningful use
Number of
respondents
Instrument
Responses
per
respondent
of electronic medical record systems, as
well as appointment scheduling
practices and policies. HRSA plans to
administer the clinician survey using
both web and paper modes, with
computer-assisted telephone
interviewing follow-up. HRSA plans to
administer the practice survey using
paper mode, with computer-assisted
telephone interviewing follow-up.
HRSA will use claims data,
supplemented with a list of members of
HIV medical societies, and attendees at
the 2010 HIV clinical conference, to
identify the frame of clinicians
(physicians, nurse practitioners, and
physician assistants) in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia who provide a
significant amount of medical care to
patients with HIV or AIDS. By using a
national probability sampling strategy,
the results of the clinician survey can be
used to generate national and regional
estimates of HIV clinician supply.
HRSA will use quantitative and
qualitative methods to document and
quantify the extent of the HIV clinician
workforce surplus or shortage, predict
the future requirements for and supply
of HIV clinicians, and identify best
practice models and strategies for
expanding the capacity of HIV practices
and providers to meet the growing
demand for care.
The ultimate goal of the study will be
to develop proposed action steps that
HRSA and other federal and state
agencies can use to enhance the
capacity of the HIV clinician workforce
to achieve the targets set forth in the
2010 White House Office of HIV/AIDS
Policy’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy
and Implementation Plan.
The annual estimate of burden of the
two surveys is as follows:
Total
responses
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
3,500
350
1
1
3,500
350
0.33
0.50
1,155
175
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HIV Clinician Survey ............................................................
HIV Practice Survey .............................................................
3,850
........................
3,850
........................
1,330
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by
email to
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to (202) 395–6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ‘‘attention of the
desk officer for HRSA.’’
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Dated: December 30, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and
Information Coordination.
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HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Criteria for Determining Priorities
Among Correctional Facility Health
Professional Shortage Areas
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
AGENCY:
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General notice.
In accordance with the
requirements of section 333A(b)(1) of
the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as
amended by the Health Care Safety Net
Amendments of 2002, 42 U.S.C. 254f–
1(b)(1), the Secretary of HHS shall
establish the criteria which she will use
to make determinations under section
333A(a)(1)(A) of the health professional
shortage areas (HPSAs) with the greatest
shortages. This notice sets forth revised
criteria for determining correctional
facility HPSA scores.
DATES: Effective January 10, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
CAPT Phil Budashewitz, Director,
Office of Policy and Program
Development, Bureau of Clinician
Recruitment and Service, Health
Resources and Services Administration,
5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building,
Room 8A–55, Rockville, Maryland
20857, ((301) 594–4130).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
332 of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. 254e,
provides that the Secretary shall
designate HPSAs based on criteria
established by regulation. HPSAs are
defined in Section 332 to include (1)
urban and rural geographic areas with
shortages of health professionals, (2)
population groups with such shortages,
and (3) facilities with such shortages.
The required regulations setting forth
the criteria for designating HPSAs are
codified at 42 C.F.R. Part 5.
Section 333A(a)(1)(A) of the PHS Act
requires that the Secretary give priority
in the assignment of National Health
Service Corps personnel to entities
serving HPSAs with the greatest health
professional shortage. Section 333A(b)
of the PHS Act requires that the
Secretary establish criteria specifying
the manner in which she determines
HPSAs of greatest shortage and publish
the criteria, and any revisions to the
criteria, in the Federal Register. The
criteria established by the Secretary
create a method for scoring HPSAs
based on relative shortage.
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Correctional Facility HPSA Scores
Correctional facility HPSA scores are
currently extrapolated from the degreeof-shortage (DOS) groups determined in
the primary care, mental health, and
dental HPSA designation process. See
42 CFR part 5, Appendices A, B and C.
The determination of DOS groups for
these facilities is based primarily on
internee/inpatient-to-provider ratios,
which is similar to the population-toprovider ratio used for other types of
HPSAs. This notice revises the criteria
for scoring primary care, mental health
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and dental correctional facility HPSAs.
The Secretary will utilize a combination
of the correctional facility’s DOS group
and an indicator of the supply of
providers in the geographic area where
the facility is located, as measured by
the designation of a geographic HPSA
and its relative geographic HPSA score.
The table below defines the points
correctional facilities will receive based
on their DOS group:
Degree-of-Shortage Group 1 ......
Degree-of-Shortage Group 2 ......
Degree-of-Shortage Group 3 ......
12 points.
6 points.
3 points.
The table below defines the points
correctional facilities will receive based
on their location in a geographic HPSA
and the geographic HPSA’s score:
Geographic HPSA score between 20–25 (20–26 in the
case of dental or mental
health HPSAs).
Geographic HPSA score between 14–19.
Geographic HPSA score between 8–13.
Geographic HPSA score between 1–7.
Not located in a geographic
HPSA.
12 points.
9 points.
6 points.
3 points.
0 points.
Points for the DOS and the geographic
HPSA score will be equally weighted.
The maximum HPSA score for a
correctional facility is 24.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The criteria used to make
determinations under section
333A(a)(1)(A) of the HPSAs with the
greatest shortages described in this
announcement will not involve data
collection activities that fall under the
purview of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. If the methods for
determining HPSAs with the greatest
shortages fall under the purview of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HRSA will
seek OMB clearance for proposed data
collection activities.
Dated: January 4, 2012.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
National Advisory Committee on Rural
Health and Human Services; Notice of
Meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), announcement is
made of the following National
Advisory body scheduled to meet
during the month of February 2012.
The National Advisory Committee on
Rural Health will convene its seventieth
meeting in the time and place specified
below:
Name: National Advisory Committee
on Rural Health and Human Services.
Dates and Time:
February 15, 2012, 2 p.m.–5 p.m.
February 16, 2012, 8:45 a.m.–4 p.m.
February 17, 2012, 8:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Place: The Fairfax at Embassy Row,
2100 Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20008.
Phone: (202) 293–2100.
The meeting will be open to the
public.
Purpose: The National Advisory
Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services provides counsel and
recommendations to the Secretary with
respect to the delivery, research,
development, and administration of
health and human services in rural
areas.
Agenda: Wednesday afternoon,
February 15, at 2 p.m., the meeting will
be called to order by the Chairperson of
the Committee: The Honorable Ronnie
Musgrove. This will be followed by
presentations on provisions from the
Affordable Care Act (ACA). The
Committee will be examining potential
long-term impacts on the rural health
care infrastructure. The day will
conclude with a period of public
comment at approximately 4:30 p.m.
Thursday morning, February 16, at 9
a.m., the Committee will continue to
hear panel presentations on ACArelated provisions and will then break
into subcommittees on each of those
topics for further discussion. The day
will conclude with a period of public
comment at approximately 4:30 p.m.
Friday morning, February 17, at 9
a.m., the Committee will summarize key
findings from the meeting and develop
a work plan for the next quarter and the
June meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Hirsch, MSLS, Executive
Secretary, National Advisory Committee
on Rural Health and Human Services,
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Criteria for Determining Priorities Among Correctional Facility
Health Professional Shortage Areas
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
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ACTION: General notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of section 333A(b)(1) of
the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended by the Health Care
Safety Net Amendments of 2002, 42 U.S.C. 254f-1(b)(1), the Secretary of
HHS shall establish the criteria which she will use to make
determinations under section 333A(a)(1)(A) of the health professional
shortage areas (HPSAs) with the greatest shortages. This notice sets
forth revised criteria for determining correctional facility HPSA
scores.
DATES: Effective January 10, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CAPT Phil Budashewitz, Director,
Office of Policy and Program Development, Bureau of Clinician
Recruitment and Service, Health Resources and Services Administration,
5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building, Room 8A-55, Rockville, Maryland
20857, ((301) 594-4130).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 332 of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. 254e,
provides that the Secretary shall designate HPSAs based on criteria
established by regulation. HPSAs are defined in Section 332 to include
(1) urban and rural geographic areas with shortages of health
professionals, (2) population groups with such shortages, and (3)
facilities with such shortages. The required regulations setting forth
the criteria for designating HPSAs are codified at 42 C.F.R. Part 5.
Section 333A(a)(1)(A) of the PHS Act requires that the Secretary
give priority in the assignment of National Health Service Corps
personnel to entities serving HPSAs with the greatest health
professional shortage. Section 333A(b) of the PHS Act requires that the
Secretary establish criteria specifying the manner in which she
determines HPSAs of greatest shortage and publish the criteria, and any
revisions to the criteria, in the Federal Register. The criteria
established by the Secretary create a method for scoring HPSAs based on
relative shortage.
Correctional Facility HPSA Scores
Correctional facility HPSA scores are currently extrapolated from
the degree-of-shortage (DOS) groups determined in the primary care,
mental health, and dental HPSA designation process. See 42 CFR part 5,
Appendices A, B and C. The determination of DOS groups for these
facilities is based primarily on internee/inpatient-to-provider ratios,
which is similar to the population-to-provider ratio used for other
types of HPSAs. This notice revises the criteria for scoring primary
care, mental health and dental correctional facility HPSAs. The
Secretary will utilize a combination of the correctional facility's DOS
group and an indicator of the supply of providers in the geographic
area where the facility is located, as measured by the designation of a
geographic HPSA and its relative geographic HPSA score.
The table below defines the points correctional facilities will
receive based on their DOS group:
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Degree-of-Shortage Group 1................. 12 points.
Degree-of-Shortage Group 2................. 6 points.
Degree-of-Shortage Group 3................. 3 points.
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The table below defines the points correctional facilities will
receive based on their location in a geographic HPSA and the geographic
HPSA's score:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Geographic HPSA score between 20-25 (20-26 12 points.
in the case of dental or mental health
HPSAs).
Geographic HPSA score between 14-19........ 9 points.
Geographic HPSA score between 8-13......... 6 points.
Geographic HPSA score between 1-7.......... 3 points.
Not located in a geographic HPSA........... 0 points.
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Points for the DOS and the geographic HPSA score will be equally
weighted. The maximum HPSA score for a correctional facility is 24.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The criteria used to make determinations under section
333A(a)(1)(A) of the HPSAs with the greatest shortages described in
this announcement will not involve data collection activities that fall
under the purview of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. If the
methods for determining HPSAs with the greatest shortages fall under
the purview of the Paperwork Reduction Act, HRSA will seek OMB
clearance for proposed data collection activities.
Dated: January 4, 2012.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2012-223 Filed 1-9-12; 8:45 am]
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