Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information Collection: Indian Health Service Medical Staff Credentials and Privileges Files, 36198-36199 [2013-14289]
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Number
of
respondents
Data collection instrument(s)
Responses
per
respondent
Total
annual
response
Burden
hour per
response*
Annual
burden
hours
Health Professions Contract (IHS–818) ..........
225
1
225
0.16 (10min) ......................
38
Total ..........................................................
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12580
............................................
4340
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
There are no direct costs to
respondents other than their time to
voluntarily complete the forms and
submit them for consideration. The
estimated cost in time to respondents, as
a group, is $45,396 [4340 burden hours
X $10.46 per hour (2013 GS–3 hourly
base pay rate)]. This total dollar amount
is based upon the number of burden
hours per data collection instrument,
rounded to the nearest dollar. Request
for Comments: Your written comments
and/or suggestions are invited on one or
more of the following points: (a)
Whether the information collection
activity is necessary to carry out an
agency function; (b) whether the agency
processes the information collected in a
useful and timely fashion; (c) the
accuracy of public burden estimate (the
estimated amount of time needed for
individual respondents to provide the
requested information); (d) whether the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimate are logical; (e)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the
public burden through the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Send Comments and Requests for
Further Information: Send your written
comments and requests for more
information on the proposed collection
or requests to obtain a copy of the data
collection instrument(s) and
instructions to: Dr. Dawn Kelly, Chief,
Scholarship Program, 801 Thompson
Avenue, TMP Suite 450A, Rockville,
MD 20852, call non-toll free (301) 443–
6622, send via facsimile to (301) 443–
6048, or send your email requests,
comments, and return address to:
Dawn.Kelly@ihs.gov.
Comment Due Date: Comments
regarding this information collection are
best assured of having full effect if
received within 60 days of the date of
this publication.
Dated: June 10, 2013.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2013–14291 Filed 6–14–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day
Proposed Information Collection:
Indian Health Service Medical Staff
Credentials and Privileges Files
Indian Health Service, HHS.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires
30 days for public comment on
proposed information collection
projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS)
is submitting to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for a revision of an approved
collection of information titled, ‘‘Indian
Health Service Medical Staff Credentials
and Privileges Files,’’ OMB Control
Number 0917–0009, which expires June
31, 3013. This proposed information
collection project was previously
published in the Federal Register (78
FR 19721) on April 2, 2013, and allowed
60 days for public comment, as required
by 3506(c)(2)(A). The IHS received one
comment concerning the ‘‘Optometric
Privileges Request Form’’ in regards to
the defining of physicians and
optometrists separately. The IHS
responded that it will not include the
‘‘Optometric Privileges Request Form’’
for consideration in this request—
pending a review of ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of this
particular form. The purpose of this
notice is to allow 30 days for public
comment to be submitted directly to
OMB.
Proposed Collection: Title: 0917–
0009, ‘‘Indian Health Service Medical
Staff Credentials and Privileges Files.’’
Type of Information Collection Request:
Revision of an approved information
collection, 0917–0009, ‘‘Indian Health
Service Medical Staff Credentials and
Privileges Files.’’ Form Numbers: 0917–
0009. Need and Use of Information
Collection: This collection of
information is used to evaluate
individual health care providers
applying for medical staff privileges at
IHS health care facilities. The IHS
operates health care facilities that
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provide health care services to
American Indians and Alaska Natives.
To provide these services, the IHS
employs (directly and under contract)
several categories of health care
providers including: Physicians (M.D.
and D.O.), dentists, psychologists,
optometrists, podiatrists, audiologists,
physician assistants, certified registered
nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners,
and certified nurse midwives. IHS
policy specifically requires physicians
and dentists to be members of the health
care facility medical staff where they
practice. Health care providers become
medical staff members, depending on
the local health care facility’s
capabilities and medical staff bylaws.
There are three types of IHS medical
staff applicants: (1) Health care
providers applying for direct
employment with IHS; (2) contractors
who will not seek to become IHS
employees; and (3) employed IHS health
care providers who seek to transfer
between IHS health care facilities.
National health care standards
developed by the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services, the Joint
Commission, and other accrediting
organizations require health care
facilities to review, evaluate and verify
the credentials, training and experience
of medical staff applicants prior to
granting medical staff privileges. In
order to meet these standards, IHS
health care facilities require all medical
staff applicants to provide information
concerning their education, training,
licensure, and work experience and any
adverse disciplinary actions taken
against them. This information is then
verified with references supplied by the
applicant and may include: Former
employers, educational institutions,
licensure and certification boards, the
American Medical Association, the
Federation of State Medical Boards, the
National Practitioner Data Bank, and the
applicants themselves.
In addition to the initial granting of
medical staff membership and clinical
privileges, the Joint Commission
standards require that a review of the
medical staff be conducted not less than
every two years. This review evaluates
the current competence of the medical
staff and verifies whether they are
maintaining the licensure or
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certification requirements of their
specialty.
The medical staff credentials and
privileges records are maintained at the
health care facility where the health
care provider is a medical staff member.
The establishment of these records at
IHS health care facilities is a Joint
Commission requirement. Prior to the
establishment of this Joint Commission
requirement, the degree to which
medical staff applications were
maintained at all health care facilities in
the United States that are verified for
completeness and accuracy varied
greatly across the Nation.
The application process has been
streamlined and is using information
technology to make the application
electronically available on the Internet.
The application may be found at the
IHS.gov Web site address: https://www.
Estimated
number of
respondents
Data collection instrument(s)
Responses
per
respondent
ihs.gov/IHM/index.cfm?module=dsp_
ihm_pc_p3c1_ex#Manual Exhibit 3-1-A.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households. Type of Respondents:
Individuals.
The table below provides: Types of
data collection instruments, Estimated
number of respondents, Number of
annual number of responses, Average
burden per response, and Total annual
burden hours.
Average burden hour per response *
Application to Medical Staff ............................
Reference Letter .............................................
Reappointment Request .................................
Ob-Gyn Privileges ...........................................
Internal Medicine .............................................
Surgery Privileges ...........................................
Psychiatry Privileges .......................................
Anesthesia Privileges ......................................
Dental Privileges .............................................
Psychology Privileges .....................................
Audiology Privileges ........................................
Podiatry Privileges ..........................................
Radiology Privileges .......................................
Pathology Privileges .......................................
570
1710
190
20
325
20
13
15
150
30
7
7
8
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Total .........................................................
3068
........................
1.00
0.33
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.33
0.17
0.08
0.08
0.33
0.33
36199
Total
annual burden
hours
(60 mins) ................................................
(20 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(60 mins) ................................................
(20 mins) ................................................
(10 mins) ................................................
(5 mins) ..................................................
(5 mins) ..................................................
(20 mins) ................................................
(20 mins) ................................................
570
570
190
20
325
20
13
15
50
5
1
1
3
1
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are provided in actual minutes.
There are no capital costs, operating costs and/or maintenance costs to respondents.
Request for Comments: Your written
comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following
points: (a) Whether the information
collection activity is necessary to carry
out an agency function; (b) whether the
agency processes the information
collected in a useful and timely fashion;
(c) the accuracy of public burden
estimate (the estimated amount of time
needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d)
whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the
estimate is logical; (e) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information being collected; and (f)
ways to minimize the public burden
through the use of automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Send Requests for Further
Information: For the proposed
collection, or requests to obtain a copy
of the data collection instrument(s) and
instructions, to: Paul R. Fowler D.O.,
J.D., Risk Management Officer, 801
Thompson Avenue, TMP, Suite 331,
Rockville, MD 20852, call non-toll free
(301) 443–6372, send via facsimile to
(301) 594–6213, or send your email
requests to email address
paul.fowler@ihs.gov.
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Direct Your Comments to OMB: Send
your comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information
collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated
public burden and associated response
time to: Office of Management and
Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs,
New Executive Office Building, Room
10235, Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
Comment Due Date: Your comments
regarding this information collection is
best assured of having full effect if
received within 30 days of the date of
this publication.
Dated: June 10, 2013.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2013–14289 Filed 6–14–13; 8:45 am]
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Indian Health Service
Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Contracts;
Correction
Indian Health Service, HHS.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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The Indian Health Service
published a document in the Federal
Register on May 30, 2013, concerning a
request for a renewal of the collection of
information, titled, ‘‘Indian Self
Determination and Education
Assistance Contracts, 25 CFR Part 900.’’
The document contained an error
regarding the ‘‘Estimated Time per
Response.’’
SUMMARY:
Ms.
Tamara Clay, Reports Clearance Officer,
Indian Health Service, 801 Thompson
Avenue, TMP, Suite 450, Rockville, MD
20852, Telephone 301–443–4750. (This
is not a toll-free number.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Correction
In the Federal Register of May 30,
2013, in Vol. 78, No. 104, on page
32406, in the third column, under the
heading ‘‘Estimated Time per Response:
Varies from 1 to 1040 hours, with an
average of 11 hours per response’’ it
should read ‘‘Estimated Time per
Response: Varies from 1 to 1040 hours,
with an average of 15.968 hours per
response.’’
Dated: June 10, 2013.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Acting Director, Indian Health Services.
[FR Doc. 2013–14293 Filed 6–14–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information
Collection: Indian Health Service Medical Staff Credentials and
Privileges Files
AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 30 days for public comment on
proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service
(IHS) is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for a revision of an approved collection of information titled,
``Indian Health Service Medical Staff Credentials and Privileges
Files,'' OMB Control Number 0917-0009, which expires June 31, 3013.
This proposed information collection project was previously published
in the Federal Register (78 FR 19721) on April 2, 2013, and allowed 60
days for public comment, as required by 3506(c)(2)(A). The IHS received
one comment concerning the ``Optometric Privileges Request Form'' in
regards to the defining of physicians and optometrists separately. The
IHS responded that it will not include the ``Optometric Privileges
Request Form'' for consideration in this request--pending a review of
ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of this particular
form. The purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days for public comment
to be submitted directly to OMB.
Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-0009, ``Indian Health Service
Medical Staff Credentials and Privileges Files.'' Type of Information
Collection Request: Revision of an approved information collection,
0917-0009, ``Indian Health Service Medical Staff Credentials and
Privileges Files.'' Form Numbers: 0917-0009. Need and Use of
Information Collection: This collection of information is used to
evaluate individual health care providers applying for medical staff
privileges at IHS health care facilities. The IHS operates health care
facilities that provide health care services to American Indians and
Alaska Natives. To provide these services, the IHS employs (directly
and under contract) several categories of health care providers
including: Physicians (M.D. and D.O.), dentists, psychologists,
optometrists, podiatrists, audiologists, physician assistants,
certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and
certified nurse midwives. IHS policy specifically requires physicians
and dentists to be members of the health care facility medical staff
where they practice. Health care providers become medical staff
members, depending on the local health care facility's capabilities and
medical staff bylaws. There are three types of IHS medical staff
applicants: (1) Health care providers applying for direct employment
with IHS; (2) contractors who will not seek to become IHS employees;
and (3) employed IHS health care providers who seek to transfer between
IHS health care facilities.
National health care standards developed by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, and other
accrediting organizations require health care facilities to review,
evaluate and verify the credentials, training and experience of medical
staff applicants prior to granting medical staff privileges. In order
to meet these standards, IHS health care facilities require all medical
staff applicants to provide information concerning their education,
training, licensure, and work experience and any adverse disciplinary
actions taken against them. This information is then verified with
references supplied by the applicant and may include: Former employers,
educational institutions, licensure and certification boards, the
American Medical Association, the Federation of State Medical Boards,
the National Practitioner Data Bank, and the applicants themselves.
In addition to the initial granting of medical staff membership and
clinical privileges, the Joint Commission standards require that a
review of the medical staff be conducted not less than every two years.
This review evaluates the current competence of the medical staff and
verifies whether they are maintaining the licensure or
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certification requirements of their specialty.
The medical staff credentials and privileges records are maintained
at the health care facility where the health care provider is a medical
staff member. The establishment of these records at IHS health care
facilities is a Joint Commission requirement. Prior to the
establishment of this Joint Commission requirement, the degree to which
medical staff applications were maintained at all health care
facilities in the United States that are verified for completeness and
accuracy varied greatly across the Nation.
The application process has been streamlined and is using
information technology to make the application electronically available
on the Internet. The application may be found at the IHS.gov Web site
address: https://www.ihs.gov/IHM/index.cfm?module=dsp_ihm_pc_p3c1_ex#Manual Exhibit 3-1-A.
Affected Public: Individuals and households. Type of Respondents:
Individuals.
The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments,
Estimated number of respondents, Number of annual number of responses,
Average burden per response, and Total annual burden hours.
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Estimated
Data collection instrument(s) number of Responses per Average burden hour per Total annual
respondents respondent response * burden hours
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Application to Medical Staff.......... 570 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 570
Reference Letter...................... 1710 1 0.33 (20 mins).......... 570
Reappointment Request................. 190 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 190
Ob-Gyn Privileges..................... 20 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 20
Internal Medicine..................... 325 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 325
Surgery Privileges.................... 20 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 20
Psychiatry Privileges................. 13 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 13
Anesthesia Privileges................. 15 1 1.00 (60 mins).......... 15
Dental Privileges..................... 150 1 0.33 (20 mins).......... 50
Psychology Privileges................. 30 1 0.17 (10 mins).......... 5
Audiology Privileges.................. 7 1 0.08 (5 mins)........... 1
Podiatry Privileges................... 7 1 0.08 (5 mins)........... 1
Radiology Privileges.................. 8 1 0.33 (20 mins).......... 3
Pathology Privileges.................. 3 1 0.33 (20 mins).......... 1
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Total............................. 3068 .............. ........................ 1,784
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are provided in actual minutes.
There are no capital costs, operating costs and/or maintenance costs to respondents.
Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden estimate
(the estimated amount of time needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d) whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the estimate is logical; (e) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use
of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Send Requests for Further Information: For the proposed collection,
or requests to obtain a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and
instructions, to: Paul R. Fowler D.O., J.D., Risk Management Officer,
801 Thompson Avenue, TMP, Suite 331, Rockville, MD 20852, call non-toll
free (301) 443-6372, send via facsimile to (301) 594-6213, or send your
email requests to email address paul.fowler@ihs.gov.
Direct Your Comments to OMB: Send your comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
Comment Due Date: Your comments regarding this information
collection is best assured of having full effect if received within 30
days of the date of this publication.
Dated: June 10, 2013.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-14289 Filed 6-14-13; 8:45 am]
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