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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.’’
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on July 16th, 2018 and allowed
60 days for public comment. AHRQ did
not receive any substantive comments.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by November 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk
officer).
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
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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
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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 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
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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
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
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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.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
POCs
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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
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submission process. The cost burden is
estimated to be $6,602 annually.
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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average hourly
wage rate *
Total cost
burden
Registration Form .....................................................................................
Data Use Agreement ................................................................................
Data Files Submission ..............................................................................
11
86
11
1
22
110
a 40.95
b 93.44
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c 40.95 ..................
$41
2,056
4,505
Total ...................................................................................................
108
133
NA ........................
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
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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0088]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
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The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled Laboratory Response Network to
maintain an integrated national and
international network of laboratories
that can respond to suspected acts of
biological, chemical, or radiological
terrorism and other public health
emergencies.
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CDC must receive written
comments on or before December 3,
2018.
DATES:
You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0088 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
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Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Laboratory Response Network
Information Collection (OMB Control
No. 0920–0850, Exp. Date: 4/30/2019)—
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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.'' This proposed
information collection was previously published in the Federal Register
on July 16th, 2018 and allowed 60 days for public comment. AHRQ did not
receive any substantive comments. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by November 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
email at [email protected] (attention: AHRQ's desk officer).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email 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
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
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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.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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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.
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of
Form name respondents/ Total burden Average hourly wage rate Total cost
POCs hours * 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. 2018-21618 Filed 10-3-18; 8:45 am]
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