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the Common Formats, which is
approximately 100 hours a year. The use
of the Common Formats by PSOs and
other entities is voluntary and is on an
ongoing basis. This estimate of the
number of respondents is based on the
feedback that AHRQ has received
during meetings and technical
assistance calls from PSOs and other
entities that have been utilizing the
Common Formats. As the network for
patient safety databases (NPSD)
becomes operational, AHRQ will revise
the estimate based on actual
submissions.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Form
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
PSO Certification for Initial Listing Form .........................................................
PSO Certification for Continued Listing Form .................................................
PSO Two Bona Fide Contracts Requirement Form ........................................
PSO Disclosure Statement Form ....................................................................
PSO Profile Form ............................................................................................
PSO Change of Listing Information .................................................................
OCR Patient Safety Confidentiality Complaint Form .......................................
PSO Voluntary Relinquishment Form ..............................................................
Common Formats ............................................................................................
16
21
42
3
70
61
1
5
1,000
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
18
8
1
3
3
05/60
20/60
30/60
100
288
168
42
9
210
5.08
0.33
2.50
100,000
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
NA
NA
100,724.91
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
PSO Certification for Initial Listing Form .........................................................
PSO Certification for Continued Listing Form .................................................
PSO Two Bona Fide Contracts Requirement Form ........................................
PSO Disclosure Statement Form ....................................................................
PSO Profile Form ............................................................................................
PSO Change of Listing Form ..........................................................................
OCR Patient Safety Confidentiality Complaint Form .......................................
PSO Voluntary Relinquishment Form ..............................................................
Common Formats ............................................................................................
16
21
42
3
70
61
1
5
1,000
288
168
42
9
210
5.08
0.33
2.50
100,000
$38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
38.06
$10,961.28
6,394.08
1,598.52
342.54
7,992.60
193.34
12.55
95.15
3,806,000.00
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
3,833,590.06
* Based upon the mean of the hourly average wages for health care practitioner and technical occupations, 29–0000, National Compensation
Survey, May 2016, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’ https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm.
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of AHRQ functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility, and; for OCR’s
enforcement of confidentiality; (b) the
accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of burden
(including hours and costs) of the
proposed collection(s) of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
upon the respondents, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
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comments will become a matter of
public record.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Notice of Meeting
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ)
announces the Special Emphasis Panel
(SEP) meeting on AHRQ–HS–18–001,
‘‘Patient Safety Learning Laboratories:
Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis and
Treatment at the Intersection of Design,
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Systems Engineering, and Health
Services Research (R18).’’ Each SEP
meeting will commence in open session
before closing to the public for the
duration of the meeting.
DATES: June 13–14, 2018 (Open on June
13th from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and
closed for the remainder of the meeting).
ADDRESSES: Hilton Washington DC/
Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting,
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD
20850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of
members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting
should contact: Mrs. Bonnie Campbell,
Committee Management Officer, Office
of Extramural Research, Education and
Priority Populations, AHRQ, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland
20850, Telephone: (301) 427–1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are
subject to change as priorities dictate.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with section 10 (a)(2) of the
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Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. App. 2), announcement is made
of an Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) Special Emphasis
Panel (SEP) meeting on AHRQ–HS–18–
001, ‘‘Patient Safety Learning
Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in
Diagnosis and Treatment at the
Intersection of Design, Systems
Engineering, and Health Services
Research (R18).’’
A Special Emphasis Panel is a group
of experts in fields related to health care
research who are invited by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), and agree to be available, to
conduct on an as needed basis,
scientific reviews of applications for
AHRQ support. Individual members of
the Panel do not attend regularlyscheduled meetings and do not serve for
fixed terms or a long period of time.
Rather, they are asked to participate in
particular review meetings which
require their type of expertise.
Each SEP meeting will commence in
open session before closing to the public
for the duration of the meeting. The SEP
meeting referenced above will be closed
to the public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in 5 U.S.C. App. 2,
section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for
the ‘‘AHRQ–HS–18–001’’, ‘‘Patient
Safety Learning Laboratories: Pursuing
Safety in Diagnosis and Treatment at the
Intersection of Design, Systems
Engineering, and Health Services
Research (R18)’’ is to be reviewed and
discussed at this meeting. The grant
applications and the discussions could
disclose confidential trade secrets or
commercial property such as patentable
material, and personal information
concerning individuals associated with
the grant applications, the disclosure of
which would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project ‘‘Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Household Component and the MEPS
Medical Provider Component.’’
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by August 3, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
emails at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
(MEPS) Household Component (HC)
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
For over thirty years, results from the
MEPS and its predecessor surveys (the
1977 National Medical Care
Expenditure Survey, the 1980 National
Medical Care Utilization and
Expenditure Survey and the 1987
National Medical Expenditure Survey)
have been used by OMB, DHHS,
Congress and a wide number of health
services researchers to analyze health
care use, expenses and health policy.
Major changes continue to take place
in the health care delivery system. The
MEPS is needed to provide information
about the current state of the health care
system as well as to track changes over
time. The MEPS permits annual
estimates of use of health care and
expenditures and sources of payment
for that health care. It also permits
tracking individual change in
employment, income, health insurance
and health status over two years. The
use of the NHIS as a sampling frame
expands the MEPS analytic capacity by
providing another data point for
comparisons over time.
Households selected for participation
in the MEPS–HC are interviewed five
times in person. These rounds of
interviewing are spaced about 5 months
apart. The interview will take place
with a family respondent who will
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report for him/herself and for other
family members.
The MEPS–HC has the following goal:
D To provide nationally representative
estimates for the U.S. civilian
noninstitutionalized population for:
D health care use, expenditures, sources
of payment
D health insurance coverage
To achieve the goals of the MEPS–HC
the following data collections are
implemented:
1. Household Component Core Instrument.
The core instrument collects data about
persons in sample households. Topical areas
asked in each round of interviewing include
priority condition enumeration, health status,
health care utilization including prescribed
medicines, expenses and payments,
employment, and health insurance. Other
topical areas that are asked only once a year
include access to care, income, assets,
satisfaction with providers, and children’s
health. While many of the questions are
asked about the entire reporting unit (RU),
which is typically a family, only one person
normally provides this information. All
sections of the current core instrument are
available on the AHRQ website at https://
meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/
survey_questionnaires.jsp.
2. Adult Self-Administered Questionnaire.
A brief self-administered questionnaire
(SAQ) will be used to collect self-reported
data (rather than through household proxy)
on health opinions and satisfaction with
health care, and information on health status,
preventive care and health care quality
measures for adults 18 and older. This
questionnaire is revised from the previous
OMB clearance and received clearance on
May 9, 2018.
3. Veteran SAQ. MEPS includes a new selfadministered questionnaire for spring of 2019
data collection targeting the veteran
population. The questionnaire asks questions
in the following domains of interest: if a
veteran is eligible for VA health care; if a
Veteran is enrolled in VA health care;
coordination of care in and out of the VA
health care system, services provided to
Veterans in and out of the VA health care
system, and VA eligibility priority groups, for
Veterans enrolled in VA health care and for
Veterans eligible for VA health care. To assist
in the correct identification of priority
groups, the questionnaire may also include
items assessing the following: presence of
service-connected disability; serviceconnected disability rating; presence of
presumptive-conditions; timing and era of
active duty; and VA receipt of disability
compensation benefits. AHRQ worked with
the Veterans Health Administration to
develop the questionnaire content.
4. Diabetes Care SAQ. There is no change
in this instrument. A brief self-administered
paper-and-pencil questionnaire on the
quality of diabetes care is administered once
a year (during rounds 3 and 5) to persons
identified as having diabetes. Included are
questions about the number of times the
respondent reported having a hemoglobin
A1c blood test, whether the respondent
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[Notices]
[Pages 25670-25671]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-11925]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
announces the Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) meeting on AHRQ-HS-18-001,
``Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis
and Treatment at the Intersection of Design, Systems Engineering, and
Health Services Research (R18).'' Each SEP meeting will commence in
open session before closing to the public for the duration of the
meeting.
DATES: June 13-14, 2018 (Open on June 13th from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
and closed for the remainder of the meeting).
ADDRESSES: Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting,
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of
members, agenda or minutes of the non-confidential portions of this
meeting should contact: Mrs. Bonnie Campbell, Committee Management
Officer, Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority
Populations, AHRQ, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20850,
Telephone: (301) 427-1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are subject to change as priorities
dictate.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 10 (a)(2) of the
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Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2), announcement is made
of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Special
Emphasis Panel (SEP) meeting on AHRQ-HS-18-001, ``Patient Safety
Learning Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis and Treatment at
the Intersection of Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services
Research (R18).''
A Special Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in fields related to
health care research who are invited by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), and agree to be available, to conduct on
an as needed basis, scientific reviews of applications for AHRQ
support. Individual members of the Panel do not attend regularly-
scheduled meetings and do not serve for fixed terms or a long period of
time. Rather, they are asked to participate in particular review
meetings which require their type of expertise.
Each SEP meeting will commence in open session before closing to
the public for the duration of the meeting. The SEP meeting referenced
above will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions
set forth in 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for the ``AHRQ-HS-18-001'',
``Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis
and Treatment at the Intersection of Design, Systems Engineering, and
Health Services Research (R18)'' is to be reviewed and discussed at
this meeting. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable
material, and personal information concerning individuals associated
with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-11925 Filed 6-1-18; 8:45 am]
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