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Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice.
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces
plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described
below, to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments
from the public regarding the burden
estimate, below, or any other aspect of
the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information
Collection Request must be received no
later than January 12, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 10C–03, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call the HRSA Information Collection
Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Evaluation and Initial Assessment of the
HRSA Teaching Health Centers
Graduate Medical Education Program.
OMB No.: 0906–xxxx—New.
Abstract: Section 5508 of the
Affordable Care Act of 2010 amended
section 340H of the Public Health
Service Act to establish the Teaching
Health Center Graduate Medical
Education (THCGME) program to
provide funding support for new and
the expansion of existing primary care
residency training programs in
community-based settings. The primary
goals of this program is to increase the
production of primary care providers
who are better prepared to practice in
community settings, particularly with
underserved populations, and improve
the geographic distribution of primary
care providers.
Statute requires the Secretary to
determine an appropriate THCGME
program payment for indirect medical
expenses (IME) as well as to update, as
deemed appropriate, the per resident
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amount used to determine the Program’s
payment for direct medical expenses
(DME). To inform these determinations
and to increase understanding of this
model of residency training, the George
Washington University (GW) is
conducting an evaluation of the costs
associated with training residents in the
Teaching Health Center (THC) model.
GW has developed a standardized
costing instrument to gather data from
all THCGME programs. The information
gathered in the standardized costing
instrument includes, but is not limited
to, resident and faculty full-time
equivalents, salaries and benefits,
residency administration costs,
educational costs, residency clinical
operations and administrative costs, and
patient visits and clinical revenue
generated by medical residents.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA is collecting costing
information related to both DME and
IME in an effort to establish a THC’s
total cost of running a residency
program, to assist the Secretary in
determining an appropriate update to
the per resident amount used to
calculate the payment for DME and an
appropriate IME payment. The
described data collection activities will
serve to inform these statutory
requirements for the Secretary in a
uniform and consistent manner.
Likely Respondents: THCGME
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
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.
The annual estimate of burden is as
follows:
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Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Teaching Health Center Costing Instrument .......................
60
1
60
10
600
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60
1
60
10
600
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: October 31, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and
Information Coordination.
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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 December 15,
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
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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:
Title V Maternal and Child Health
Services Block Grant to States Program:
Guidance and Forms for the Title V
Application/Annual Report OMB No.
0915–0172—Revision.
Abstract: The Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) is
revising the Title V Maternal and Child
Health Services Block Grant to States
Program: Guidance and Forms for the
Title V Application/Annual Report. The
Guidance is used annually by the 50
states and nine jurisdictions in applying
for Block Grants under Title V of the
Social Security Act and in preparing the
required Annual Report. In partnership
with the leadership in State Title V
Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
programs as well as with other national
MCH leaders and stakeholders, HRSA’s
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(MCHB) has been working over the past
year to develop and refine a vision for
transforming the MCH Block Grant to
States program to better meet current
and future challenges facing our
nation’s mothers and children,
including children with special health
care needs (CSHCN) and their families.
The proposed revisions to the
Application and Annual Reporting
requirements and to the data forms that
are contained in the revised guidance
reflect this transformative vision.
Relative to the state’s submission of a
yearly Application, Annual Report and
5-year Needs Assessment, the aims of
the MCH Block Grant to States program
transformation are threefold: (1) Reduce
burden to states, (2) maintain state
flexibility, and (3) improve
accountability. Revisions to this edition
are intended to enable the state to tell
a more cohesive and comprehensive
Title V story and to better reflect on the
program’s leadership role and its
contributions to the state’s public health
system in building improved and
expanded systems of care for the MCH
population. It is recognized that the full
extent of the anticipated burden
reduction will be realized over time as
states become more familiar with the
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new instructions and reporting
requirements. The burden estimates
presented in the table below are based
on previous burden estimates,
consultations with a few states on the
proposed changes, and comments
received during the 60-day public
comment period.
Specific changes to this edition of the
Title V Maternal and Child Health
Services Block Grant to States Program:
Guidance and Forms for the Title V
Application/Annual Report include the
following:
(1) Narrative reporting will be
organized by six population health
domains (i.e., Women’s/Maternal
Health; Perinatal/Infant’s Health; Child
Health; CSHCN; Adolescent Health and
Cross-cutting or Life Course); (2)
Revised National Performance Measure
(NPM) framework will be implemented
with states selecting 8 of 15 NPMs for
their programmatic focus; (3) state-level
program data, such as breakdowns of
MCH populations by race/ethnicity,
health indicator data, and national
performance and outcome measure data
will be provided by MCHB, as available,
from national data sources, thus,
reducing the annual reporting burden
for states; (4) Given that most MCH
issues are multifactorial, the state will
establish evidence based or evidence
informed strategies to address each of
the selected NPMs and will report on
one or more of the Evidence-based or
informed Strategy Measures (ESMs)
developed for each NPM; (5) Revised
instructions and the inclusion of a logic
model for the State Title V MCH Block
Grant Application/Annual Report
process will provide greater emphasis
on the need for the state priority needs
and national MCH priority areas to drive
the state’s reporting on the 5-year (and
ongoing) Needs Assessment findings,
the selection of eight (8) NPMs which
target the state-identified priority needs,
the development of evidence based or
informed strategies and related ESMs for
addressing each of the selected NPMs,
and the establishment of between three
(3) and five (5) State Performance
Measures (SPMs) which respond to the
state’s identified unique needs; (6) State
Application/Annual Report will include
a 5-year Action Plan for addressing the
identified MCH priority areas; (7) An
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any
other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received
no later than January 12, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10C-03, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation and Initial
Assessment of the HRSA Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical
Education Program.
OMB No.: 0906-xxxx--New.
Abstract: Section 5508 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 amended
section 340H of the Public Health Service Act to establish the Teaching
Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program to provide
funding support for new and the expansion of existing primary care
residency training programs in community-based settings. The primary
goals of this program is to increase the production of primary care
providers who are better prepared to practice in community settings,
particularly with underserved populations, and improve the geographic
distribution of primary care providers.
Statute requires the Secretary to determine an appropriate THCGME
program payment for indirect medical expenses (IME) as well as to
update, as deemed appropriate, the per resident amount used to
determine the Program's payment for direct medical expenses (DME). To
inform these determinations and to increase understanding of this model
of residency training, the George Washington University (GW) is
conducting an evaluation of the costs associated with training
residents in the Teaching Health Center (THC) model. GW has developed a
standardized costing instrument to gather data from all THCGME
programs. The information gathered in the standardized costing
instrument includes, but is not limited to, resident and faculty full-
time equivalents, salaries and benefits, residency administration
costs, educational costs, residency clinical operations and
administrative costs, and patient visits and clinical revenue generated
by medical residents.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is collecting
costing information related to both DME and IME in an effort to
establish a THC's total cost of running a residency program, to assist
the Secretary in determining an appropriate update to the per resident
amount used to calculate the payment for DME and an appropriate IME
payment. The described data collection activities will serve to inform
these statutory requirements for the Secretary in a uniform and
consistent manner.
Likely Respondents: THCGME 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 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.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Teaching Health Center Costing 60 1 60 10 600
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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: October 31, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-26854 Filed 11-12-14; 8:45 am]
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