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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Rural Health Network Development Planning Program
Performance Improvement and Measurement System
Measures ..........................................................................
21
1
21
1
21
Total ..............................................................................
21
1
21
1
21
Dated: March 27, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and
Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014–07508 Filed 4–3–14; 8:45 am]
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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.
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
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 no later than May 5, 2014.
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:
Client-Level Data Reporting System,
OMB No. 0915–0323—Revision.
Abstract: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program’s client-level data reporting
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system, entitled the Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program Services Report or the
Ryan White Services Report (RSR), was
created in 2009 by the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA). It
is designed to collect information from
grantees as well as their subcontracted
service providers, funded under Parts A,
B, C, D, and F Minority AIDS Initiative
of Title XXVI of the Public Health
Service Act, as amended by the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension
Act of 2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program). The Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program provides entities funded by the
program with flexibility to respond
effectively to the changing HIV
epidemic, with an emphasis on
providing life-saving and life-extending
services for people living with HIV
across this country, as well as targeting
resources to areas that have the greatest
needs.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: All parts of the Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program specify HRSA’s
responsibilities in administering grant
funds, allocating funds, evaluating
programs for the populations served,
and improving quality of care. Accurate
records of the providers receiving Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program funding, the
clients served, and services provided
continue to be critical issues for the
implementation of the legislation and
are necessary for HRSA to fulfill its
responsibilities.
The RSR provides data on the
characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program-funded grantees, their
contracted service providers, and the
clients served with program funds. The
RSR is intended to support clinical
quality management, performance
measurement, service delivery, and
client monitoring at the systems and
client levels. The reporting systems
consist of two online data forms, the
Grantee Report and the Service Provider
Report, as well as a data file containing
the client-level data elements. Data are
submitted annually.
The statute specifies the importance
of grantee accountability and linking
performance to budget. The RSR is used
to ensure compliance with the
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requirements of the statute, to evaluate
the progress of programs, to monitor
grantee and provider performance, and
to meet reporting responsibilities to the
Department, Congress, and OMB.
In addition to meeting the goal of
accountability to Congress, clients,
advocacy groups, and the general
public, information collected through
the RSR is critical for HRSA, state and
local grantees, and individual providers
to assess the status of existing HIV
related service delivery systems,
investigate trends in service utilization,
and identify areas of greatest need.
On April 11, 2012, a memo from the
Secretary of the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) directed
HRSA, along with other Health and
Human Services Operating Divisions
(OpDivs) to work together to: (1)
Identify seven common core HIV/AIDS
indicators; (2) develop implementation
plans to deploy these indicators; and (3)
streamline data collection; and reduce
reporting by at least 20 to 25 percent. In
November 2012, the HIV/AIDS
Indicators Implementation Group
(HAIIG) comprised of representatives
from HHS OpDivs, the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, the
Veterans’ Health Administration, and
community partners successfully
identified the required common core
HIV/AIDS indicators.
Revisions to the RSR are required to
support implementation of the core
indicators, streamline data collection,
and reduce reporting burden. Nine data
elements will be deleted from the RSR
and 22 variables will be modified to
reduce reporting burden. Two new data
elements will be added to the RSR: (1)
Date of client’s confidential
confirmatory HIV test with a positive
result in the reporting period; and (2)
date of client’s first outpatient
ambulatory medical care visit after
positive HIV test. These data elements
are required to deploy the Linkage to
HIV Medical Care core indicator.
Another data element, Sex at Birth,
defined to the biological sex assigned to
the client at birth, will be added to align
with variables collected by other HHS
OpDivs.
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In addition to the new data elements
noted above, other new variables will be
added to the RSR to address provisions
set forth in Section 4302 of the
Affordable Care Act. The Affordable
Care Act includes several provisions
aimed at eliminating health disparities
in America. Section 4302
(Understanding health disparities: Data
Collection and Analysis) of the
Affordable Care Act focuses on the
standardization, collection, analysis,
and reporting of health disparities data.
Section 4302 requires the Secretary of
HHS to establish data collection
standards for race, ethnicity, and sex.
The race/ethnicity data elements
include reporting of Hispanic, Asian,
and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
subgroups. The categories for HHS data
standards for race and ethnicity are
based on the disaggregation of the OMB
standard used in the American
Community Survey (ACS) and the 2000
and 2010 Decennial Census. The
subgroup categories can be rolled-up to
the OMB standard. These new data
elements will be used in data analysis
intended to identify and understand
health disparities.
Likely Respondents: Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program Part A, Part B, Part C, and
Part D grantees and their contracted
service providers.
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
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
burden
hours
Grantee Report ....................................................................
Provider Report ....................................................................
Client Report ........................................................................
595
1793
1312
1
1
1
595
1793
1312
7
17
67
4,165
30,481
87,904
Total ..............................................................................
3700
........................
3700
91
122,550
Dated: March 26, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and
Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014–07491 Filed 4–3–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Notice of Supplemental Funding
Opportunity
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Supplemental
Funding Opportunity: Secretary’s
Minority AIDS Initiative Funding to
Increase HIV Prevention and Care
Service Delivery among Health Centers
Serving High HIV Prevalence
Jurisdictions.
AGENCY:
Funded in part by the
Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative
Fund (SMAIF), as set forth in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2014, Public Law 113–76, H.R. 3547–
376, a supplemental funding
opportunity will be available in June
2014, for certain existing Health Center
Program grantees funded under Section
330 of the Public Health Service (PHS)
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Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 254b). This
supplemental funding opportunity is
one facet of a partnership between the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and the Health
Resources and Services Administration,
Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA,
BPHC), which will encourage
collaboration between Health Center
Program grantees in geographic areas of
high HIV/AIDS unmet need among
racial/ethnic minorities and state health
departments to increase and improve
HIV service delivery within their
primary care programs.
Under Secretary’s Minority AIDS
Initiative Funding to Increase HIV
Prevention and Care Service Delivery
among Health Centers Serving High HIV
Prevalence Jurisdictions (CDC–RFA–
PS14–1410), CDC will fund
approximately four state health
departments through a competitive
application process among nine state
health departments (Alabama,
California, Florida, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, New York,
South Carolina, and Texas) that have
been identified as eligible to apply for
funding. State health department
awardees must collaborate with Health
Center Program grantees identified in
their applications to increase and
improve HIV service delivery among
racial/ethnic minorities. Health Center
Program grantees identified in awarded
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health department applications may
subsequently apply for supplemental
funding from HRSA for their
participation in this collaboration.
HRSA will award 12–24 supplemental
awards ranging in amount from
$250,000 to $500,000 to existing Health
Center Program grantees identified by
state health departments as
collaborative partners in their
applications for grant funding under
Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding to Increase HIV Prevention and
Care Service Delivery among Health
Centers Serving High HIV Prevalence
Jurisdictions (CDC–RFA–PS14–1410).
This supplemental funding will support
activities currently in scope of health
center projects, including health center
workforce development, infrastructure
development, HIV service delivery
across the HIV care continuum, and the
development of sustainable partnerships
with state health departments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joanne Galindo or Jennifer Clarke,
Office of Policy and Program
Development, Bureau of Primary Health
Care, Health Resources and Services
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Room 17C–05, Rockville, MD 20857;
telephone 301–594–4300.
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[Pages 18920-18921]
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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 no later than May 5,
2014.
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: Client-Level Data Reporting
System, OMB No. 0915-0323--Revision.
Abstract: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's client-level data
reporting system, entitled the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services
Report or the Ryan White Services Report (RSR), was created in 2009 by
the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It is designed
to collect information from grantees as well as their subcontracted
service providers, funded under Parts A, B, C, D, and F Minority AIDS
Initiative of Title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, as amended
by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program). The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides entities
funded by the program with flexibility to respond effectively to the
changing HIV epidemic, with an emphasis on providing life-saving and
life-extending services for people living with HIV across this country,
as well as targeting resources to areas that have the greatest needs.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: All parts of the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program specify HRSA's responsibilities in administering
grant funds, allocating funds, evaluating programs for the populations
served, and improving quality of care. Accurate records of the
providers receiving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funding, the clients
served, and services provided continue to be critical issues for the
implementation of the legislation and are necessary for HRSA to fulfill
its responsibilities.
The RSR provides data on the characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program-funded grantees, their contracted service providers, and the
clients served with program funds. The RSR is intended to support
clinical quality management, performance measurement, service delivery,
and client monitoring at the systems and client levels. The reporting
systems consist of two online data forms, the Grantee Report and the
Service Provider Report, as well as a data file containing the client-
level data elements. Data are submitted annually.
The statute specifies the importance of grantee accountability and
linking performance to budget. The RSR is used to ensure compliance
with the requirements of the statute, to evaluate the progress of
programs, to monitor grantee and provider performance, and to meet
reporting responsibilities to the Department, Congress, and OMB.
In addition to meeting the goal of accountability to Congress,
clients, advocacy groups, and the general public, information collected
through the RSR is critical for HRSA, state and local grantees, and
individual providers to assess the status of existing HIV related
service delivery systems, investigate trends in service utilization,
and identify areas of greatest need.
On April 11, 2012, a memo from the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) directed HRSA, along with other Health
and Human Services Operating Divisions (OpDivs) to work together to:
(1) Identify seven common core HIV/AIDS indicators; (2) develop
implementation plans to deploy these indicators; and (3) streamline
data collection; and reduce reporting by at least 20 to 25 percent. In
November 2012, the HIV/AIDS Indicators Implementation Group (HAIIG)
comprised of representatives from HHS OpDivs, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, the Veterans' Health Administration, and
community partners successfully identified the required common core
HIV/AIDS indicators.
Revisions to the RSR are required to support implementation of the
core indicators, streamline data collection, and reduce reporting
burden. Nine data elements will be deleted from the RSR and 22
variables will be modified to reduce reporting burden. Two new data
elements will be added to the RSR: (1) Date of client's confidential
confirmatory HIV test with a positive result in the reporting period;
and (2) date of client's first outpatient ambulatory medical care visit
after positive HIV test. These data elements are required to deploy the
Linkage to HIV Medical Care core indicator. Another data element, Sex
at Birth, defined to the biological sex assigned to the client at
birth, will be added to align with variables collected by other HHS
OpDivs.
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In addition to the new data elements noted above, other new
variables will be added to the RSR to address provisions set forth in
Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act
includes several provisions aimed at eliminating health disparities in
America. Section 4302 (Understanding health disparities: Data
Collection and Analysis) of the Affordable Care Act focuses on the
standardization, collection, analysis, and reporting of health
disparities data. Section 4302 requires the Secretary of HHS to
establish data collection standards for race, ethnicity, and sex. The
race/ethnicity data elements include reporting of Hispanic, Asian, and
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander subgroups. The categories for HHS data
standards for race and ethnicity are based on the disaggregation of the
OMB standard used in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the 2000
and 2010 Decennial Census. The subgroup categories can be rolled-up to
the OMB standard. These new data elements will be used in data analysis
intended to identify and understand health disparities.
Likely Respondents: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A, Part B,
Part C, and Part D grantees and their contracted service providers.
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 Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grantee Report.................. 595 1 595 7 4,165
Provider Report................. 1793 1 1793 17 30,481
Client Report................... 1312 1 1312 67 87,904
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Total....................... 3700 .............. 3700 91 122,550
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Dated: March 26, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-07491 Filed 4-3-14; 8:45 am]
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