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Medicaid. Each quarterly report requests
updates from programs on the number
of patients served, type of
pharmaceuticals dispensed, and prices
paid to provide medications. The first
quarterly report of each ADAP fiscal
year (due in July of each year) also
requests information that only changes
annually (e.g., state funding, drug
formulary, eligibility criteria for
enrollment, and cost-saving strategies
including coordination with Medicaid).
Describe the need for the information
and proposed use of the information:
The quarterly report represents the best
method for HRSA to determine how
ADAP grant funds are expended and to
provide answers to requests from
Congress and other organizations.
Likely Respondents: ADAP Grantees.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
Number of
respondents
Form name
ADAP Quarterly Report—Qtr. 1 ...........................................
ADAP Quarterly Reports—Qtr. 1, 2, & 3 .............................
Total ..............................................................................
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Dated: December 9, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
SUMMARY:
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Information Collection Request Title:
Evaluation of the Frontier Community
Health Care Network Coordination
Grant
OMB No. 0915–xxxx—NEW.
Abstract: In fiscal year (FY) 2012, the
Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
funded an evaluation of the Frontier
Community Health Care Network
Coordination (FCHCNC) grant. This 3year grant program awarded to the
Montana Department of Public Health
and Human Services focuses on a
community-based, client-centered
clinical service coordination and health
promotion model. The program will be
coordinated by a clinically-trained Care
Transitions Coordinator (CTC) working
with Community Health Workers (CHW)
in 11 participating network
communities. By developing
intervention with clients, the CTC and
CHWs will work to improve care
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responses
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3
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of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received within 30 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for
HRSA, either by email to OIRA_
submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to
202–395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call
(301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this Information
Collection Request are summarized in
the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized burden
hours:
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228
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
3.0
1.5
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171.0
256.5
427.5
transitions and client outcomes by
reducing or eliminating avoidable
hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations,
emergency room (ER) visits, and nursing
home placements.
The program will be subject to a 3year independent evaluation. As part of
this 3-year evaluation, HRSA will be
collecting qualitative and quantitative
information. To support the qualitative
analysis, HRSA will conduct site visits
and telephonic key informant
interviews with the critical access
hospitals, tertiary hospitals, and the
support staff coordinating the program.
Data collection will focus on client/
family satisfaction, whether goals were
achieved in working with clients, and
the strengths and challenges associated
with implementing the program.
Additionally, HRSA will be collecting
data quarterly from the grantee sites in
order to gain a deeper understanding of
the program’s implementation. Finally,
quantitative data will be gathered for
studying the effectiveness of each
intervention, specifically identifying
differences between pre- and postintervention health care utilization,
hospital readmissions, and other clientspecific outcomes. Where data are
available, HRSA will assess cost
effectiveness of the program.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information
This evaluation will consist of
reviewing the implementation and
effectiveness of the FCHCNC grant for
the 11 participating network
communities. The evaluation will allow
HRSA to determine the following
objectives:
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1. Identify the strengths and
challenges that grantees and key
partners used to implement the
FCHCNC grant;
2. Assess the effectiveness of the
grantees’ implementation of the
FCHCNC grant;
3. Determine client satisfaction and
whether clients are meeting intervention
goals; and
4. Assess health care utilization and
cost savings associated with FCHCNC
grant participation.
The evaluation will collect data from
key stakeholders, grantee sites, and
clients using the following methods:
1. In person and telephonic
interviews;
2. Grantee data collection forms; and
3. Client satisfaction surveys.
ORHP is seeking approval from OMB
for the three methods of data collection.
A brief description of the data collection
activities for which OMB approval is
being sought is included below:
In Person and Telephonic Key
Informant Interviews: Interviews will be
conducted with hospital administrators,
providers, the care transitions
coordinator, community health workers,
and clients participating in the program.
The interview guides consist of openended questions designed to gather
information on successes and challenges
associated with the program design and
implementation. Additionally, the
interviews seek to gather information
about the CHW training, client
enrollment, intervention design for
participants, and satisfaction with the
program.
Grantee Data Collection: The data
collected from each grantee site will
provide details on program/client
activity on a quarterly basis. The data
will include the number of clients with
whom the CHWs are involved, the
intervention goals and objectives for
each participant, resources used as part
of the interventions, and the time it took
for achievement of the goals. To provide
insight on the effectiveness of the
grantees’ recruitment, grantee data
collection will also provide information
on CHWs’ efforts to enroll clients and
the successes and failures that they have
with various recruitment methods.
Client Satisfaction Survey: The data
collected as part of the client
satisfaction survey will include data on
types of health services used during
their intervention and overall
satisfaction with the FCHCNC program.
CMS Utilization and Cost Data: The
data accessed for the FCHCNC program
will include overall utilization of health
services by clients enrolled in the
program (including number of
hospitalizations) and the cost of the
associated care received by the clients
enrolled in the program.
Likely Respondents: Hospital
Administrators, primary care providers,
community health workers, the care
transition coordinator, staff from the
Montana Department of Public Health
and Human Services, staff from
Montana Health Education and
Research Foundation, and CHW clients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average burden
per response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total burden
hours
Client satisfaction survey .................................................
Hospital Administrator Interview Protocol ........................
Primary care Provider Interview Protocol ........................
Community Health Worker Interview Protocol .................
Care Transitions Coordinator Interview Protocol .............
Grantee Interview Protocol ..............................................
Client Interview/Focus Group Protocol ............................
Grantee Data Collection Form .........................................
85
22
22
11
1
2
22
11
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
85
22
22
11
1
2
22
44
.16
.5
.5
1.0
1.0
.5
.5
4
13.6
11.0
11.0
11.0
1.0
1.0
11.0
176.0
Total ..........................................................................
176
........................
........................
............................
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Dated: December 9, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
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Under the provisions of
Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request to review and approve
the information collection listed below.
SUMMARY:
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This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on August 12, 2013, (Vol. 78 FR
p. 48879) and allowed 60 days for
public comment. One public comment
was received on August 18, 2013 which
questioned the effectiveness of the
program and whether the study was an
effective use of taxpayer funds. An
email response was sent on September
9, 2013 stating, ‘‘Your response will be
reviewed in further consideration of all
comments submissions made during the
60-day public notice period for this
proposed information collection. Thank
you for your inquiry, comments and/or
suggestions’’. The purpose of this notice
is to allow an additional 30 days for
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the
review and approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this
notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation of the Frontier
Community Health Care Network Coordination Grant
OMB No. 0915-xxxx--NEW.
Abstract: In fiscal year (FY) 2012, the Office of Rural Health
Policy (ORHP) funded an evaluation of the Frontier Community Health
Care Network Coordination (FCHCNC) grant. This 3-year grant program
awarded to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
focuses on a community-based, client-centered clinical service
coordination and health promotion model. The program will be
coordinated by a clinically-trained Care Transitions Coordinator (CTC)
working with Community Health Workers (CHW) in 11 participating network
communities. By developing intervention with clients, the CTC and CHWs
will work to improve care transitions and client outcomes by reducing
or eliminating avoidable hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations,
emergency room (ER) visits, and nursing home placements.
The program will be subject to a 3-year independent evaluation. As
part of this 3-year evaluation, HRSA will be collecting qualitative and
quantitative information. To support the qualitative analysis, HRSA
will conduct site visits and telephonic key informant interviews with
the critical access hospitals, tertiary hospitals, and the support
staff coordinating the program. Data collection will focus on client/
family satisfaction, whether goals were achieved in working with
clients, and the strengths and challenges associated with implementing
the program. Additionally, HRSA will be collecting data quarterly from
the grantee sites in order to gain a deeper understanding of the
program's implementation. Finally, quantitative data will be gathered
for studying the effectiveness of each intervention, specifically
identifying differences between pre- and post-intervention health care
utilization, hospital readmissions, and other client-specific outcomes.
Where data are available, HRSA will assess cost effectiveness of the
program.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information
This evaluation will consist of reviewing the implementation and
effectiveness of the FCHCNC grant for the 11 participating network
communities. The evaluation will allow HRSA to determine the following
objectives:
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1. Identify the strengths and challenges that grantees and key
partners used to implement the FCHCNC grant;
2. Assess the effectiveness of the grantees' implementation of the
FCHCNC grant;
3. Determine client satisfaction and whether clients are meeting
intervention goals; and
4. Assess health care utilization and cost savings associated with
FCHCNC grant participation.
The evaluation will collect data from key stakeholders, grantee
sites, and clients using the following methods:
1. In person and telephonic interviews;
2. Grantee data collection forms; and
3. Client satisfaction surveys.
ORHP is seeking approval from OMB for the three methods of data
collection. A brief description of the data collection activities for
which OMB approval is being sought is included below:
In Person and Telephonic Key Informant Interviews: Interviews will
be conducted with hospital administrators, providers, the care
transitions coordinator, community health workers, and clients
participating in the program. The interview guides consist of open-
ended questions designed to gather information on successes and
challenges associated with the program design and implementation.
Additionally, the interviews seek to gather information about the CHW
training, client enrollment, intervention design for participants, and
satisfaction with the program.
Grantee Data Collection: The data collected from each grantee site
will provide details on program/client activity on a quarterly basis.
The data will include the number of clients with whom the CHWs are
involved, the intervention goals and objectives for each participant,
resources used as part of the interventions, and the time it took for
achievement of the goals. To provide insight on the effectiveness of
the grantees' recruitment, grantee data collection will also provide
information on CHWs' efforts to enroll clients and the successes and
failures that they have with various recruitment methods.
Client Satisfaction Survey: The data collected as part of the
client satisfaction survey will include data on types of health
services used during their intervention and overall satisfaction with
the FCHCNC program.
CMS Utilization and Cost Data: The data accessed for the FCHCNC
program will include overall utilization of health services by clients
enrolled in the program (including number of hospitalizations) and the
cost of the associated care received by the clients enrolled in the
program.
Likely Respondents: Hospital Administrators, primary care
providers, community health workers, the care transition coordinator,
staff from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services,
staff from Montana Health Education and Research Foundation, and CHW
clients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response (in Total burden
respondents respondent responses hours) hours
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Client satisfaction survey.... 85 1 85 .16 13.6
Hospital Administrator 22 1 22 .5 11.0
Interview Protocol...........
Primary care Provider 22 1 22 .5 11.0
Interview Protocol...........
Community Health Worker 11 1 11 1.0 11.0
Interview Protocol...........
Care Transitions Coordinator 1 1 1 1.0 1.0
Interview Protocol...........
Grantee Interview Protocol.... 2 1 2 .5 1.0
Client Interview/Focus Group 22 1 22 .5 11.0
Protocol.....................
Grantee Data Collection Form.. 11 4 44 4 176.0
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Total..................... 176 .............. .............. ................ 231.6
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Dated: December 9, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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