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The estimated burden for the
information collection reflects an
increase since last OMB approval. This
adjustment corresponds with an
increase in submissions received by the
Agency.
Dated: February 4, 2019.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request; Children’s Graduate Medical
Education Quality Bonus System
(QBS) Initiative Response Form, OMB
No. 0906–xxxx–New
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than March 11, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
including the ICR Title, to the desk
officer for HRSA either by email to
SUMMARY:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to (202) 395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa
Wright-Solomon, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Quality Bonus System Initiative
Response Form OMB No. 0906–xxxx
[New].
Abstract: The Children’s Hospitals
Graduate Medical Education (CHGME)
Payment Program provides federal
funds to the nation’s freestanding
children’s hospitals to help them
maintain their graduate medical
education programs that train resident
physicians and dentists. CHGME
Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
states that the Secretary may establish a
Quality Bonus System (QBS), whereby
the Secretary distributes bonus
payments to hospitals participating in
the CHGME Payment Program that meet
standards specified by the Secretary. In
order to qualify for the QBS payment in
Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, CHGME award
recipients must submit documentation
as an attachment in the FY 2019
reconciliation application released in
April 2019, describing the hospital’s
initiatives, resident curriculum, and
direct resident involvement in the
following areas:
a. Integrated care models (e.g.,
integrated behavioral and mental health,
care coordination across providers and
settings);
b. Telehealth and/or Health
Information Technology;
c. Population health;
d. Social determinants of health; and
e. Additional initiatives to improve
access and quality of care to rural and/
or underserved communities.
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register on October 23, 2018,
Vol. 83, No. 205.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: As specified in the CHGME
statute, the QBS payment shall be
remitted to qualified hospitals
participating in the CHGME program
that meet standards set forth by the
Secretary of HHS. To demonstrate the
fulfillment of such standards, it will be
necessary for applicants to complete the
QBS Response Initiative form and
submit it as an attachment to the FY
2019 reconciliation application released
in April of 2019. This form will be used
to gather information relating to the
hospitals’ engagement in quality
initiatives.
Likely Respondents: CHGME Program
award recipients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
burden
hours
QBS Response Initiative Form ............................................
58
1
58
32.41
1,880
Total ..............................................................................
58
........................
58
........................
1,880
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Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, notice is hereby given of the
following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
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as amended. The grant applications and
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following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
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and personal information concerning
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applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific
Review Special Emphasis Panel, Member
Conflict: Bioengineering Sciences and
Technologies.
Date: February 20, 2019.
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701
Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892,
(Telephone Conference Call).
Contact Person: Nitsa Rosenzweig, Ph.D.,
Scientific Review Officer, Center for
Scientific Review, National Institutes of
Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4152,
MSC 7760, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 404–
7419, rosenzweign@csr.nih.gov.
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Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine;
93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333,
93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844,
93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National
Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: February 1, 2019.
Natasha M. Copeland,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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Dated: February 2, 2019.
Natasha M. Copeland,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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Name of Committee: National Institute on
Drug Abuse Special Emphasis Panel; R13
Conference Grant Review.
Date: February 22, 2019.
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: National Institutes of Health,
Neuroscience Center Building (NSC), 6001
Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852
(Telephone Conference Call).
Contact Person: Ipolia R. Ramadan, Ph.D.,
Scientific Review Officer, Office of
Extramural Policy and Review, Division of
Extramural Research, National Institute on
Drug Abuse, NIH, DHHS, 6001 Executive
Boulevard, Room 4228, MSC 95509529,
Bethesda, MD 20892, ramadanir@
mail.nih.gov.
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provisions set forth in sections
552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
as amended. 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.
Name of Committee: National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special
Emphasis Panel; Immune Mechanisms at the
Maternal Fetal Interface (Clinical Trial
Optional; single project R01 applications).
Date: March 4–5, 2019.
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: Hyatt Regency Bethesda, One
Bethesda Metro Center, Wisconsin Ave.,
Bethesda, MD 20814.
Contact Person: Nancy VazquezMaldonado, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer,
Scientific Review Program, Division of
Extramural Activities, Room 3F52B, National
Institutes of Health/NIAID, 5601 Fishers
Lane, MSC 9834, Bethesda, MD 20892–9834,
(240) 669–5044, nvazquez@niaid.nih.gov.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology,
and Transplantation Research; 93.856,
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: February 2, 2019.
Natasha M. Copeland,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Children's Graduate
Medical Education Quality Bonus System (QBS) Initiative Response Form,
OMB No. 0906-xxxx-New
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than March 11,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk
officer for HRSA either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to (202) 395-5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa Wright-Solomon, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Quality Bonus System
Initiative Response Form OMB No. 0906-xxxx [New].
Abstract: The Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education
(CHGME) Payment Program provides federal funds to the nation's
freestanding children's hospitals to help them maintain their graduate
medical education programs that train resident physicians and dentists.
CHGME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 states that the Secretary may
establish a Quality Bonus System (QBS), whereby the Secretary
distributes bonus payments to hospitals participating in the CHGME
Payment Program that meet standards specified by the Secretary. In
order to qualify for the QBS payment in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, CHGME
award recipients must submit documentation as an attachment in the FY
2019 reconciliation application released in April 2019, describing the
hospital's initiatives, resident curriculum, and direct resident
involvement in the following areas:
a. Integrated care models (e.g., integrated behavioral and mental
health, care coordination across providers and settings);
b. Telehealth and/or Health Information Technology;
c. Population health;
d. Social determinants of health; and
e. Additional initiatives to improve access and quality of care to
rural and/or underserved communities.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on October
23, 2018, Vol. 83, No. 205.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: As specified in the CHGME
statute, the QBS payment shall be remitted to qualified hospitals
participating in the CHGME program that meet standards set forth by the
Secretary of HHS. To demonstrate the fulfillment of such standards, it
will be necessary for applicants to complete the QBS Response
Initiative form and submit it as an attachment to the FY 2019
reconciliation application released in April of 2019. This form will be
used to gather information relating to the hospitals' engagement in
quality initiatives.
Likely Respondents: CHGME Program award recipients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
QBS Response Initiative Form.... 58 1 58 32.41 1,880
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Total....................... 58 .............. 58 .............. 1,880
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