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I. Purpose
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II. Agenda
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, the
Council meeting will convene at 8:30
a.m., with the call to order by the
Council Chair and approval of previous
Council summary notes. The meeting is
open to the public and will be available
via webcast at www.webconferences.
com/ahrq. The meeting will begin with
an update on AHRQ’s current research,
programs, and initiatives. The agenda
will also include updates on: AHRQ
Data, Analytics, and Insights; Making
Health Services Research Relevant to
the C-Suite; and AHRQ’s Opioids
efforts. The final agenda will be
available on the AHRQ website at
www.AHRQ.gov no later than Friday,
July 13, 2018.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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
‘‘Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
Clinician and Group Survey Database.’’
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by September 14, 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
Renewal of the Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey
Database
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
The CAHPS Database is a repository for
data from selected CAHPS surveys. The
primary purpose of the CAHPS Database
is to facilitate comparisons of CAHPS
survey results by survey users. This
voluntary compilation of survey results
from a large pool of data into a single
database enables survey users to
compare their own results to relevant
Database results. The CAHPS Database
also offers an important source of
primary data for research related to
consumer assessments of quality as
measured by CAHPS surveys.
The CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey
(CG–CAHPS) Database is the newest
component of the CAHPS Database. It
was developed in response to the
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growing demand for Database results for
the various versions of the CG–CAHPS
Survey, including the 12-month and
Visit versions. In May 2011, the first set
of Database results for both the 12month and Visit versions was released
through the CAHPS Database Online
Reporting System.
AHRQ developed the database for
CAHPS CG Survey data following the
CAHPS Health Plan Database as a
model. The CAHPS Health Plan
Database was developed in 1998 in
response to requests from health plans,
purchasers, and CMS for survey data to
support public reporting of health plan
ratings, health plan accreditation and
quality improvement (OMB Control
Number 0935–0165, expiration 5/31/
2020). Demand for survey results from
the CG Survey has grown as well, and
therefore AHRQ developed a dedicated
Clinician and Group Database to
support benchmarking, quality
improvement, and research (OMB
Control Number 0935–0197, expiration
02/28/2019).
The CAHPS Database contains data
from AHRQ’s standardized CAHPS
Surveys which provide survey measures
of quality to health care purchasers,
consumers, regulators, and policy
makers. The Health Plan Database also
provides data for AHRQ’s annual
National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Reports.
The goal of this project is to renew the
CAHPS CG Survey Database. This
database will continue to update the
CAHPS CG Database with the latest
results of the CAHPS CG Survey. These
results consist of 31 items that measure
5 areas or composites of patients’
experiences with physicians and staff in
outpatient medical practices. This
database can be used to do the
following:
(1) Improve care provided by
individual providers, sites of care,
medical groups, or provider networks.
(2) Offer several products and
services, including providing survey
results presented through an Online
Reporting System, summary chartbooks,
custom analyses, private reports in
Excel format, and data for research
purposes.
(3) Provides information to help
identify strengths and areas with
potential for improvement in patient
care. The five composite measures are:
Getting Timely Appointments, Care, and
Information
How Well Providers Communicate With
Patients
Helpful, Courteous, and Respectful
Office Staff
Providers’ Use of Information to
Coordinate Patient Care
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Patients’ Rating of the Provider
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Westat,
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct and support research on
health care and on systems for the
delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of health care
services and with respect to quality
measurement and improvement, and
health surveys and database
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2),
and (8).
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Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project, the
following activities and data collections
will be implemented:
(1) Registration Form—The purpose of
this form is to determine the eligibility
status and initiate the registration
process for participating organizations
seeking to submit their CAHPS CG
survey data voluntarily to the CAHPS
CG Survey Database. The point of
contact (POC) at the participating
organization (or parent organization)
will complete the form. The POC is
either a corporate-level health manager
or a survey vendor who contracts with
a participating organization to collect
the CAHPS CG survey data.
(2) Data Use Agreement—The purpose
of the Data Use Agreement (DUA) is to
obtain authorization from participating
organizations to use their voluntarily
submitted CAHPS CG survey data for
analysis and reporting according to the
terms specified in the DUA. The DUA
states how data submitted by
participating organizations will be used
and provides confidentiality assurances.
The POC at the organization will
complete the form. Vendors do not sign
the DUA.
(3) Data Submission—The number of
submissions to the database may vary
each year because medical groups and
practices may not administer the survey
and submit data each year. Data
submission is typically handled by one
POC who is either a health system, a
medical group or practice or a survey
vendor who contracts with the medical
group or practice to collect data on their
behalf. After the POC has completed the
Registration Form and the DUA, they
will submit patient-level data collected
from the CAHPS CG survey to the
CAHPS CG Survey Database. Data on
organizational characteristics such as
ownership, number of patient visits per
week, provider specialty, and
information related to survey
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administration such as mode, dates of
survey administration, sample size, and
response rate, which are collected as
part of CAHPS CG survey operations are
also submitted.
Each submission will consist of 3 data
files: (1) A Group File that contains
information about the group ownership,
(2) a Practice File containing the
practice ownership and affiliation (i.e.,
commercial, hospital or health system,
university or academic medical center,
community health center, military or
county), number of providers working
each week, sampling information,
number of patient visits per week,
contact information and (3) a Sample
File that contains one record for each
patient surveyed, the date of visit,
survey disposition code, information
about survey completion, and survey
responses.
Survey data from the CAHPS CG
Database is used to produce four types
of products: (1) An online reporting of
results available to the public on the
CAHPS Database website; (2) individual
participant reports (in Excel format),
used for comparing a participating
organization’s CAHPS survey results to
the database averages, that are
confidential and customized for each
participating organization that submits
their data, (3) an annual Chartbook that
presents summary-level results in a
downloadable file in PDF format; and
(4) a de-identified dataset that is made
available to researchers for additional
analyses.
Information for the CAHPS CG
Database has been collected by AHRQ
on an annual basis since 2010.
Participating organizations are asked to
submit their data voluntarily to the
database each year. The data are cleaned
with standardized programs, then
aggregated and used to produce
summarized results. In addition, reports
in Excel format are produced that
compare the participating organizations’
results to the overall database results.
These reports are sent via a secured FTP
site upon the participating
organization’s request.
Database results and individual
participant reports can serve a variety of
purposes:
• Identifying areas for quality
improvement at multiple levels,
including medical group, practice site,
and individual practitioner.
• Briefing senior leadership on
patients’ views of the health care they
receive.
• Supporting public reporting of
patients’ assessments of care.
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• Combining with other quality
measures to examine health care
outcomes.
The CAHPS CG Database supports
research by providing a de-identified
analytic database. Much like the CAHPS
Health Plan Database developed in 1998
(OMB Control Number 0935–0165,
Expiration Date 5/31/2020), researchers
can use the CAHPS CG Survey Database
to examine:
• Disparities in CAHPS satisfaction
scores by racial and ethnic
characteristics of patients.
• Comparisons of adult and child
CAHPS survey results.
Analysis of case-mix factors affecting
CAHPS scores, such as patient age,
education, and self-reported health
status.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden
hours for the participating in the CG
database. The 11 POCs in exhibit 1 are
the number of estimated vendors.
Survey vendors assist the Health/
Medical entities with submitting data
submission materials. Survey vendors
generally submit all required survey
data and other materials other than the
DUA. The 86 POCs in exhibit 1 are the
number of estimated participating
Health/Medical entities based on 2017
submission.
Each vendor will register online for
submission. The online Registration
Form will require about 5 minutes to
complete. The DUA will be completed
by the 86 participating Health/Medical
entities. Vendors do not sign DUAs. The
DUA process requires about 15 minutes
to sign and return by fax, mail or to
upload directly to the submission
system and includes an accompanying
practice site excel file that is uploaded
to the submission system. Each
submitter will provide a copy of their
questionnaire and the survey data file in
the required file format. Survey data
files must conform to the data file layout
specifications provided by the CAHPS
Database. The average number of data
submissions per vendor is estimated to
be 10. Once a data file is uploaded, the
file will be automatically checked to
ensure it conforms to the specifications
and a data file status report will be
produced and made available to the
submitter. Submitters will review each
report and will be expected to fix any
errors in their data file and resubmit if
necessary. It will take about one hour to
complete each file submission. The total
burden is estimated to be 133 hours
annually.
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Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Number of
responses for
each POC
Hours per
response
Total
burden
hours
Registration Form ............................................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Data Submission ..............................................................................................
11
86
11
1
1
10
5/60
15/60
1
1
22
110
Total ..........................................................................................................
108
NA
NA
133
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to complete the
submission process. The cost burden is
estimated to be $6,602 annually.
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Registration Form ............................................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
Total ..........................................................................................................
Exhibit 2—Estimated Annualized Cost
Burden
Total
burden
hours
11
86
11
108
Average
hourly wage
rate *
1
22
110
133
a 40.95
b 93.44
c 40.95
NA
Total cost
burden
$41
2,056
4,505
6,602
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2016, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’
(a) and (c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15–1131). (b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives
(11–1011). https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm.
Request for Comments
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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’s health care
research and health care information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (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
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
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifiers: CMS–10669]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
an opportunity for the public to
comment on CMS’ intention to collect
information from the public. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension or reinstatement of an existing
collection of information, and to allow
a second opportunity for public
comment on the notice. Interested
persons are invited to send comments
regarding the burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of
information, including the necessity and
utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of
the agency’s functions, the accuracy of
the estimated burden, ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected and the use
of automated collection techniques or
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other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
DATES: Comments on the collection(s) of
information must be received by the
OMB desk officer by August 15, 2018.
ADDRESSES: When commenting on the
proposed information collections,
please reference the document identifier
or OMB control number. To be assured
consideration, comments and
recommendations must be received by
the OMB desk officer via one of the
following transmissions:
OMB, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: CMS
Desk Officer, Fax Number: (202) 395–
5806, OR Email: OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed collection(s) summarized in
this notice, you may make your request
using one of the following:
1. Access CMS’ website address at
https://www.cms.hhs.gov/Paperwork
ReductionActof1995.
2. Email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov.
3. Call the Reports Clearance Office at
(410) 786–1326.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reports Clearance Office at (410) 786–
1326.
Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: 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 ``Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey Database.''
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by September 14, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at
[email protected]. 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
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Renewal of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey Database
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information
collection. The CAHPS Database is a repository for data from selected
CAHPS surveys. The primary purpose of the CAHPS Database is to
facilitate comparisons of CAHPS survey results by survey users. This
voluntary compilation of survey results from a large pool of data into
a single database enables survey users to compare their own results to
relevant Database results. The CAHPS Database also offers an important
source of primary data for research related to consumer assessments of
quality as measured by CAHPS surveys.
The CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey (CG-CAHPS) Database is the
newest component of the CAHPS Database. It was developed in response to
the growing demand for Database results for the various versions of the
CG-CAHPS Survey, including the 12-month and Visit versions. In May
2011, the first set of Database results for both the 12-month and Visit
versions was released through the CAHPS Database Online Reporting
System.
AHRQ developed the database for CAHPS CG Survey data following the
CAHPS Health Plan Database as a model. The CAHPS Health Plan Database
was developed in 1998 in response to requests from health plans,
purchasers, and CMS for survey data to support public reporting of
health plan ratings, health plan accreditation and quality improvement
(OMB Control Number 0935-0165, expiration 5/31/2020). Demand for survey
results from the CG Survey has grown as well, and therefore AHRQ
developed a dedicated Clinician and Group Database to support
benchmarking, quality improvement, and research (OMB Control Number
0935-0197, expiration 02/28/2019).
The CAHPS Database contains data from AHRQ's standardized CAHPS
Surveys which provide survey measures of quality to health care
purchasers, consumers, regulators, and policy makers. The Health Plan
Database also provides data for AHRQ's annual National Healthcare
Quality and Disparities Reports.
The goal of this project is to renew the CAHPS CG Survey Database.
This database will continue to update the CAHPS CG Database with the
latest results of the CAHPS CG Survey. These results consist of 31
items that measure 5 areas or composites of patients' experiences with
physicians and staff in outpatient medical practices. This database can
be used to do the following:
(1) Improve care provided by individual providers, sites of care,
medical groups, or provider networks.
(2) Offer several products and services, including providing survey
results presented through an Online Reporting System, summary
chartbooks, custom analyses, private reports in Excel format, and data
for research purposes.
(3) Provides information to help identify strengths and areas with
potential for improvement in patient care. The five composite measures
are:
Getting Timely Appointments, Care, and Information
How Well Providers Communicate With Patients
Helpful, Courteous, and Respectful Office Staff
Providers' Use of Information to Coordinate Patient Care
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Patients' Rating of the Provider
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
Westat, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and support
research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of health care services and with
respect to quality measurement and improvement, and health surveys and
database development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project, the following activities and
data collections will be implemented:
(1) Registration Form--The purpose of this form is to determine the
eligibility status and initiate the registration process for
participating organizations seeking to submit their CAHPS CG survey
data voluntarily to the CAHPS CG Survey Database. The point of contact
(POC) at the participating organization (or parent organization) will
complete the form. The POC is either a corporate-level health manager
or a survey vendor who contracts with a participating organization to
collect the CAHPS CG survey data.
(2) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the Data Use Agreement (DUA)
is to obtain authorization from participating organizations to use
their voluntarily submitted CAHPS CG survey data for analysis and
reporting according to the terms specified in the DUA. The DUA states
how data submitted by participating organizations will be used and
provides confidentiality assurances. The POC at the organization will
complete the form. Vendors do not sign the DUA.
(3) Data Submission--The number of submissions to the database may
vary each year because medical groups and practices may not administer
the survey and submit data each year. Data submission is typically
handled by one POC who is either a health system, a medical group or
practice or a survey vendor who contracts with the medical group or
practice to collect data on their behalf. After the POC has completed
the Registration Form and the DUA, they will submit patient-level data
collected from the CAHPS CG survey to the CAHPS CG Survey Database.
Data on organizational characteristics such as ownership, number of
patient visits per week, provider specialty, and information related to
survey administration such as mode, dates of survey administration,
sample size, and response rate, which are collected as part of CAHPS CG
survey operations are also submitted.
Each submission will consist of 3 data files: (1) A Group File that
contains information about the group ownership, (2) a Practice File
containing the practice ownership and affiliation (i.e., commercial,
hospital or health system, university or academic medical center,
community health center, military or county), number of providers
working each week, sampling information, number of patient visits per
week, contact information and (3) a Sample File that contains one
record for each patient surveyed, the date of visit, survey disposition
code, information about survey completion, and survey responses.
Survey data from the CAHPS CG Database is used to produce four
types of products: (1) An online reporting of results available to the
public on the CAHPS Database website; (2) individual participant
reports (in Excel format), used for comparing a participating
organization's CAHPS survey results to the database averages, that are
confidential and customized for each participating organization that
submits their data, (3) an annual Chartbook that presents summary-level
results in a downloadable file in PDF format; and (4) a de-identified
dataset that is made available to researchers for additional analyses.
Information for the CAHPS CG Database has been collected by AHRQ on
an annual basis since 2010. Participating organizations are asked to
submit their data voluntarily to the database each year. The data are
cleaned with standardized programs, then aggregated and used to produce
summarized results. In addition, reports in Excel format are produced
that compare the participating organizations' results to the overall
database results. These reports are sent via a secured FTP site upon
the participating organization's request.
Database results and individual participant reports can serve a
variety of purposes:
Identifying areas for quality improvement at multiple
levels, including medical group, practice site, and individual
practitioner.
Briefing senior leadership on patients' views of the
health care they receive.
Supporting public reporting of patients' assessments of
care.
Combining with other quality measures to examine health
care outcomes.
The CAHPS CG Database supports research by providing a de-
identified analytic database. Much like the CAHPS Health Plan Database
developed in 1998 (OMB Control Number 0935-0165, Expiration Date 5/31/
2020), researchers can use the CAHPS CG Survey Database to examine:
Disparities in CAHPS satisfaction scores by racial and
ethnic characteristics of patients.
Comparisons of adult and child CAHPS survey results.
Analysis of case-mix factors affecting CAHPS scores, such as
patient age, education, and self-reported health status.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden hours for the participating in
the CG database. The 11 POCs in exhibit 1 are the number of estimated
vendors. Survey vendors assist the Health/Medical entities with
submitting data submission materials. Survey vendors generally submit
all required survey data and other materials other than the DUA. The 86
POCs in exhibit 1 are the number of estimated participating Health/
Medical entities based on 2017 submission.
Each vendor will register online for submission. The online
Registration Form will require about 5 minutes to complete. The DUA
will be completed by the 86 participating Health/Medical entities.
Vendors do not sign DUAs. The DUA process requires about 15 minutes to
sign and return by fax, mail or to upload directly to the submission
system and includes an accompanying practice site excel file that is
uploaded to the submission system. Each submitter will provide a copy
of their questionnaire and the survey data file in the required file
format. Survey data files must conform to the data file layout
specifications provided by the CAHPS Database. The average number of
data submissions per vendor is estimated to be 10. Once a data file is
uploaded, the file will be automatically checked to ensure it conforms
to the specifications and a data file status report will be produced
and made available to the submitter. Submitters will review each report
and will be expected to fix any errors in their data file and resubmit
if necessary. It will take about one hour to complete each file
submission. The total burden is estimated to be 133 hours annually.
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Number of Number of
Form name respondents/ responses for Hours per Total burden
POCs each POC response hours
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Registration Form............................... 11 1 5/60 1
Data Use Agreement.............................. 86 1 15/60 22
Data Submission................................. 11 10 1 110
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Total....................................... 108 NA NA 133
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to complete the submission process. The cost burden
is estimated to be $6,602 annually.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of Average
Form name respondents/ Total burden hourly wage Total cost
POCs hours rate * burden
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Registration Form............................... 11 1 a 40.95 $41
Data Use Agreement.............................. 86 22 b 93.44 2,056
Data Files Submission........................... 11 110 c 40.95 4,505
Total....................................... 108 133 NA 6,602
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2016, ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.'' (a) and (c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15-1131).
(b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11-1011). https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm.
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's health care research and
health care information dissemination functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (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 comments will become a matter of
public record.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-15104 Filed 7-13-18; 8:45 am]
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