Notification of Single Source Cooperative Agreement Awards, 54287-54288 [2015-22687]
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The six National DPP grantees offer
the program consistent with the CDC’s
Diabetes Prevention Recognition
Program (DPRP) Standards. The
National DPP grantees deliver the
intervention through an estimated 110
sites. Grantees are responsible for
scaling and sustaining the National DPP
by:
• Increasing the number of delivery
sites,
• developing delivery sites’ capacity
to obtain and maintain DPRP
recognition,
• gaining sustainable support for
delivery sites from insurance companies
in the form of reimbursement, and
• actively educating employers and
insurance companies about the cost
effectiveness of including the lifestyle
change program as a covered health
benefit and reimbursing delivery sites
on a pay-for-performance basis.
CDC proposes to assess program
implementation among National DPP
grantees using Excel data collection
spreadsheets. This assessment/
spreadsheet process is the formative and
summative evaluation of the six
grantees, and is just one of the several
evaluations of National DPP activities;
others include the DPRP Standards’
measures and Program and Grants
Office (PGO) annual grantee progress
reports provided to CDC project officers.
The objective of this formative and
summative evaluation of the National
DPP is to collect additional information
to identify program-level factors leading
to successful implementation and best
practices for achieving program
sustainability and scalability at the
community level. Informing the
assessment (i.e., the Excel data
collection spreadsheet) is the Reach,
Effectiveness, Adoption,
Implementation, and Maintenance (RE–
AIM) framework that National DPP
grantees were provided as part of their
funding opportunity announcement in
2012. The RE–AIM framework identifies
pertinent questions around process and
outcome measures that the Excel data
collection spreadsheets are designed to
answer.
CDC plans to distribute Excel data
collection spreadsheets to all six
grantees, who will, in turn, disseminate
the spreadsheets to their communitylevel intervention sites. The estimated
annualized number of intervention sites
is 120.
Program coordinators at each
intervention site will be asked to
describe their intervention, identify
barriers and facilitators to
implementation, and identify resources
used to deliver the lifestyle change
programs via a site-level spreadsheet.
Project directors and managers at the
grantee organizations will be asked
similar questions about resource use
and implementation strategies via a
grantee-level spreadsheet, but will also
be asked to discuss elements related to
the reach of their National DPP
programs. CDC will use the information
gained from the assessment to discern
lessons learned and effective strategies
around (1) expanding the reach and
sustainability of the National DPP
lifestyle change programs, (2) improving
recruitment and retention efforts, (3)
increasing referrals, and (4) securing
sustained commitment among insurance
providers and employers to either
reimburse organizations providing the
program or providing an employee
benefit option for the program so it is
accessible to individuals most in need
of this intervention. Finally, CDC will
use the information to inform the
development of data-driven technical
assistance for National DPP grantees and
their intervention sites.
The estimated time burden per site for
completion of a site-level spreadsheet is
between 30 and 60 minutes, with an
average of 45 minutes per spreadsheet
per year. The estimated burden for a
grantee is up to 12 hours to complete a
grantee-level spreadsheet. This includes
coordinating the collection of
spreadsheets from their respective sites.
Collectively, over the three-year
clearance period being requested, the
total burden estimate is based on 120
annualized responses from National
DPP Intervention Sites (110 + 120 +
130/3) and 6 annualized responses from
National DPP Grantees (6 + 6 + 6/3).
OMB approval is requested for 3 years.
All information will be collected
electronically. Participation is voluntary
and there are no costs to respondents
other than their time.
The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 162.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name
National DPP Intervention Sites .....................
Spreadsheet for National DPP Intervention
Sites.
Spreadsheet for National DPP Grantees .......
National DPP Grantees ..................................
Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
Notification of Single Source
Cooperative Agreement Awards
Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
The Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)/Seamless
Care Models Group will issue a singlesource, cooperative agreement award to
three (3) grantees to test a data
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
120
1
45/60
6
1
12
aggregation model that combines data
from insurance companies and
Medicare in support of an innovative
payment and service delivery initiative.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janel Jin, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, 7500 Security Blvd.,
Baltimore, MD 21244, Phone: (410) 786–
1438.
Intended
Recipients: Rise Health, The Health
Collaborative, and My Health.
Purpose of Award: The Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is
authorized to test innovative payment
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and service delivery models to reduce
program expenditures under Medicare,
Medicaid, and the Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) while
preserving or enhancing the quality of
care furnished to individuals under
such programs. In October 2012, CMS
launched the Comprehensive Primary
Care (CPC) initiative as a multi-payer
demonstration to test a model that
fosters collaboration between public and
private health insurance companies
(‘‘payers’’) to strengthen primary care.
The program includes 479 participating
primary care practices and 38
participating payers across 7 regional
areas within the United States. The CMS
Innovation Center executed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with each participating payer within the
7 regional areas covered by the program.
One of the stated goals in the MOU is
improving the flow of cost and
utilization data to CPC primary care
practices. The test model will aggregate
multi-payer data for each primary care
practice rather than practices receiving
the data individually from each payer.
This single-source cooperative
agreement award will allow the
inclusion of Medicare data into the CPC
multi-payer data model. The awardees
will combine Medicare Fee-for-Service
(FFS) data with utilization data from
participating payers resulting in the
creation of uniform and actionable
reports to support physicians care
coordination and quality improvement
efforts.
Amount of the Award: There will be
three (3) single-source, cooperative
agreements awarded in the initial
amount of $200,000–$450,000 per
award for the first budget period. An
award for a non-competing continuation
at $200,000–$450,000 may be awarded
for a period of 12 months.
Justification for Single Source Award:
Commercial payers within the 7 regions
have agreed to work together to improve
data-sharing to the CPC practices. Each
of the awardees currently maintain
contracts with all of the CPC payers for
data-sharing and have worked with the
payers and practices to develop
business requirements for the CPC
multi-payer claims database system. If
CMS were to award another source, the
vendor would not be aggregating
Medicare claims data with claims data
from the regional payers, as each of the
payers have selected the three entities of
this award to perform this function.
Doing so would undermine the CPC
practices’ ability to improve care and
lower costs through care coordination
and quality improvement and is counter
to CMS’s MOU with the payers. In
conclusion, the only entities capable of
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providing the data aggregation services
described are the three entities
identified for the single-source awards.
Project Period: The anticipated period
of performance for each cooperative
agreement is 12 months from date of
award with one continuation period of
up to 12 months.
Provisions of the Notice: Title: Testing
a Model of Data Aggregation under the
Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC)
Initiative.
CFDA Number: 93.646.
Estimated Award Date: September 12,
2015.
CMS has solicited proposal from Rise
Health, The Health Collaborative, and
My Health to include Medicare data into
the multi-payer data model of the CPC
initiative.
CMS requested the following to be
submitted with each application:
1. Cover Letter
2. Project Abstract Summary
3. Project Narrative to address how the
applicant will implement the
cooperative agreement program in
support of the goals of the
Comprehensive Primary Care
Initiative.
4. Budget Narrative
5. SF–424: Official Application for
Federal Assistance
6. SF–424A: Budget Information NonConstruction
7. SF–424B: Assurances-NonConstruction Programs
8. SF–LLL: Disclosure of Lobbying
Activities
9. Project Site Location Form(s) [as
applicable]
Applications will be reviewed using
the following evaluation criteria:
1. Proposed Approach—describe the
development and implementation
strategy for collecting and aggregating
Medicare data with payer data from
across the specified regions, including
an anticipated timeline and activities
associated with building the
infrastructure needed to implement the
project.
2. Organizational Capacity and
Management Plan—demonstrates
sufficient infrastructure and capacity to
plan and implement the cooperative
agreement activities and associated
funding.
3. Evaluation and Reporting—
overview of plans for quarterly reporting
to CMS on the progress of the data
aggregation activities funded under this
cooperative agreement.
4. Budget and Budget Narrative—
provide a detailed cost breakdown with
explanations and justifications for the
proposed cooperative agreement
activities.
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Authority: The CMS award is authorized
under section 1115A of the Social Security
Act, as added by Section 3021 of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111–
148) which permits the obligation of funding
for CMS to design, implement, and evaluate
innovative payment and service delivery
models.
Dated: September 1, 2015.
Daniel F. Kane,
Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants
Management, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Announcement of the Intent To Award
a Single-Source Cooperative
Agreement to the Gerontology
Institute, University of Massachusetts
Boston
Administration for Community
Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Community Living (ACL) announces the
intent to award a single-source
cooperative agreement in the amount of
$75,000 to the Gerontology Institute,
University of Massachusetts Boston
(UMass Boston) to support and
stimulate the expansion of work already
underway by UMass Boston in
providing pension counseling services
to residents of the State of Illinois.
DATES: The award will be issued for a
project period to run concurrently with
the existing grantee’s budget period of
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Valerie Soroka, Office of Elder Justice
and Adult Protective Services,
Administration on Aging,
Administration for Community Living, 1
Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20001. Telephone:
202–357–3531; Email: valerie.soroka@
acl.hhs.gov
SUMMARY:
The ACL’s
Pension Counseling & Information
Program consists of six regional pension
counseling projects, covering 29 states.
The state of Illinois, with 6.4 million
workers and a pension participation rate
of 42%, is one of the largest states
without an ACL-funded pension
counseling project. The Pension Action
Center at UMass Boston, which
conducts ACL’s New England Pension
Assistance Project, is currently
providing pension counseling services
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Notification of Single Source Cooperative Agreement Awards
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)/
Seamless Care Models Group will issue a single-source, cooperative
agreement award to three (3) grantees to test a data aggregation model
that combines data from insurance companies and Medicare in support of
an innovative payment and service delivery initiative.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janel Jin, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 7500
Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21244, Phone: (410) 786-1438.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Intended Recipients: Rise Health, The Health
Collaborative, and My Health.
Purpose of Award: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) is authorized to test innovative payment
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and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures under
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
while preserving or enhancing the quality of care furnished to
individuals under such programs. In October 2012, CMS launched the
Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative as a multi-payer
demonstration to test a model that fosters collaboration between public
and private health insurance companies (``payers'') to strengthen
primary care. The program includes 479 participating primary care
practices and 38 participating payers across 7 regional areas within
the United States. The CMS Innovation Center executed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with each participating payer within the 7 regional
areas covered by the program. One of the stated goals in the MOU is
improving the flow of cost and utilization data to CPC primary care
practices. The test model will aggregate multi-payer data for each
primary care practice rather than practices receiving the data
individually from each payer.
This single-source cooperative agreement award will allow the
inclusion of Medicare data into the CPC multi-payer data model. The
awardees will combine Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) data with
utilization data from participating payers resulting in the creation of
uniform and actionable reports to support physicians care coordination
and quality improvement efforts.
Amount of the Award: There will be three (3) single-source,
cooperative agreements awarded in the initial amount of $200,000-
$450,000 per award for the first budget period. An award for a non-
competing continuation at $200,000-$450,000 may be awarded for a period
of 12 months.
Justification for Single Source Award: Commercial payers within the
7 regions have agreed to work together to improve data-sharing to the
CPC practices. Each of the awardees currently maintain contracts with
all of the CPC payers for data-sharing and have worked with the payers
and practices to develop business requirements for the CPC multi-payer
claims database system. If CMS were to award another source, the vendor
would not be aggregating Medicare claims data with claims data from the
regional payers, as each of the payers have selected the three entities
of this award to perform this function. Doing so would undermine the
CPC practices' ability to improve care and lower costs through care
coordination and quality improvement and is counter to CMS's MOU with
the payers. In conclusion, the only entities capable of providing the
data aggregation services described are the three entities identified
for the single-source awards.
Project Period: The anticipated period of performance for each
cooperative agreement is 12 months from date of award with one
continuation period of up to 12 months.
Provisions of the Notice: Title: Testing a Model of Data
Aggregation under the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative.
CFDA Number: 93.646.
Estimated Award Date: September 12, 2015.
CMS has solicited proposal from Rise Health, The Health
Collaborative, and My Health to include Medicare data into the multi-
payer data model of the CPC initiative.
CMS requested the following to be submitted with each application:
1. Cover Letter
2. Project Abstract Summary
3. Project Narrative to address how the applicant will implement the
cooperative agreement program in support of the goals of the
Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative.
4. Budget Narrative
5. SF-424: Official Application for Federal Assistance
6. SF-424A: Budget Information Non-Construction
7. SF-424B: Assurances-Non-Construction Programs
8. SF-LLL: Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
9. Project Site Location Form(s) [as applicable]
Applications will be reviewed using the following evaluation
criteria:
1. Proposed Approach--describe the development and implementation
strategy for collecting and aggregating Medicare data with payer data
from across the specified regions, including an anticipated timeline
and activities associated with building the infrastructure needed to
implement the project.
2. Organizational Capacity and Management Plan--demonstrates
sufficient infrastructure and capacity to plan and implement the
cooperative agreement activities and associated funding.
3. Evaluation and Reporting--overview of plans for quarterly
reporting to CMS on the progress of the data aggregation activities
funded under this cooperative agreement.
4. Budget and Budget Narrative--provide a detailed cost breakdown
with explanations and justifications for the proposed cooperative
agreement activities.
Authority: The CMS award is authorized under section 1115A of
the Social Security Act, as added by Section 3021 of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) which permits the
obligation of funding for CMS to design, implement, and evaluate
innovative payment and service delivery models.
Dated: September 1, 2015.
Daniel F. Kane,
Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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