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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; Information Collection
Request Title: HIV Quality Measures
(HIVQM) Module, OMB No. 0906–
0022—Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
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.
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Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than September 25,
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:
Information Collection Request Title:
HIV Quality Measures Module, OMB
No. 0906–0022—Revision.
Abstract: HRSA Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program (RWHAP) funds and
coordinates with cities, states, and local
clinics/community-based organizations
to deliver efficient and effective HIV
care, treatment, and support to low
income people living with HIV. Nearly
two-thirds of clients (patients) live at or
below 100 percent of the federal poverty
level and approximately three-quarters
of RWHAP clients are racial/ethnic
minorities. Since 1990, the RWHAP has
developed a comprehensive system of
safety net providers who deliver high
quality direct health care and support
services to over half a million people
living with HIV—more than 50 percent
of all people living with diagnosed HIV
in the United States.
All parts of the RWHAP must follow
the legislative requirements for the
establishment of clinical quality
management programs to assess their
HIV services according to the most
recent HHS guidelines and to develop
strategies to improve access to quality
HIV services. The HIVQM Module
supports recipients and sub recipients
in their clinical quality management,
performance measurement, service
delivery, and monitoring of client health
outcomes; and supports the requirement
imposed by the Uniform Administrative
Requirements, Cost Principles, and
Audit Requirements for HHS Awards
that recipients relate financial data to
performance accomplishments of their
federal awards. 45 CFR 75.301. The
module is accessible via the Ryan White
Services Report, an existing online
portal that RWHAP recipients already
use for required data collection of their
services. While the use of the module is
voluntary for RWHAP recipients, its use
is strongly encouraged.
The HRSA performance measures are
comprised of the following categories:
(1) Core medical services, (2) all ages,
(3) adolescent/adult, (4) children with
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HIV, (5) HIV-exposed children, (6)
medical case management, (7) oral
health, (8) AIDS Drug Assistance
Program, and (9) systems level
performance measures. Recipients can
choose the performance measures they
want to monitor and may enter data on
their measures into the module up to
four times a year and then generate
reports to assess their performance.
Recipients may also compare their
performance against other recipients
regionally and nationally.
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register on March 14, 2019,
vol. 84, No. 50; pp. 9362–63. There were
four public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The HIVQM Module
provides recipients an easy-to-use and
structured platform to voluntarily and
continually monitor their performance.
The main purpose for the module is to
help recipients set goals and monitor
performance measures and quality
improvement projects. For this revised
ICR, HRSA is proposing to allow
recipients the option to enter data for
specific populations for a subset of
performance measures based on age,
gender, race, ethnicity, and specific risk
factors, which will allow for target
services and quality improvement
activities to people most at need. In
addition, recipients will be able to
generate reports of performance
measures, review them stratified by the
recipients or their service providers, and
compare to results at the state, regional,
and national levels. HRSA is proposing
these enhancements to increase the
functionality and overall usability of the
HIVQM Module.
The HIVQM Module was piloted for
this revision request in June 2019.
Recipients or sub recipients, who
submitted data for more than two
reporting periods in the last year and
represented the use of various data
systems, submitted feedback on the new
data stratification feature. Their
feedback included questions about: (1)
How the data stratification feature in the
HIVQM Module would differ from and
integrate with CAREWare (CW)
reporting; and (2) the availability of the
template for the data stratification
feature. HRSA’s responses included
describing the interface between CW
and the HIVQM Module, explaining
how reports will be produced and
further explaining why the HIVQM
Module will be a useful tool in
comparing state, regional, and national
performance measure data among
recipients/sub recipients who use the
HIVQM Module.
Likely Respondents: HRSA RWHAP
Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D
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recipients and their service providers
and the AIDS Drug Assistance Program
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
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
HIVQM Module ....................................................................
2,316
4
9,264
6
55,584
Total ..............................................................................
2,316
........................
9,264
........................
55,584
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program; List of Petitions Received
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
HRSA is publishing this
notice of petitions received under the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program (the Program), as required by
Section 2112(b)(2) of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act, as amended. While
the Secretary of HHS is named as the
respondent in all proceedings brought
by the filing of petitions for
compensation under the Program, the
United States Court of Federal Claims is
charged by statute with responsibility
for considering and acting upon the
petitions.
SUMMARY:
For
information about requirements for
filing petitions, and the Program in
general, contact Lisa L. Reyes, Clerk of
Court, United States Court of Federal
Claims, 717 Madison Place NW,
Washington, DC 20005, (202) 357–6400.
For information on HRSA’s role in the
Program, contact the Director, National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 08N146B,
Rockville, Maryland 20857; (301) 443–
6593, or visit our website at: https://
www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/
index.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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The
Program provides a system of no-fault
compensation for certain individuals
who have been injured by specified
childhood vaccines. Subtitle 2 of Title
XXI of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. 300aa–
10 et seq., provides that those seeking
compensation are to file a petition with
the United States Court of Federal
Claims and to serve a copy of the
petition to the Secretary of HHS, who is
named as the respondent in each
proceeding. The Secretary has delegated
this responsibility under the Program to
HRSA. The Court is directed by statute
to appoint special masters who take
evidence, conduct hearings as
appropriate, and make initial decisions
as to eligibility for, and amount of,
compensation.
A petition may be filed with respect
to injuries, disabilities, illnesses,
conditions, and deaths resulting from
vaccines described in the Vaccine Injury
Table (the Table) set forth at 42 CFR
100.3. This Table lists for each covered
childhood vaccine the conditions that
may lead to compensation and, for each
condition, the time period for
occurrence of the first symptom or
manifestation of onset or of significant
aggravation after vaccine
administration. Compensation may also
be awarded for conditions not listed in
the Table and for conditions that are
manifested outside the time periods
specified in the Table, but only if the
petitioner shows that the condition was
caused by one of the listed vaccines.
Section 2112(b)(2) of the PHS Act, 42
U.S.C. 300aa–12(b)(2), requires that
‘‘[w]ithin 30 days after the Secretary
receives service of any petition filed
under section 2111 the Secretary shall
publish notice of such petition in the
Federal Register.’’ Set forth below is a
list of petitions received by HRSA on
July 1, 2019, through July 31, 2019. This
list provides the name of petitioner, city
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and state of vaccination (if unknown
then city and state of person or attorney
filing claim), and case number. In cases
where the Court has redacted the name
of a petitioner and/or the case number,
the list reflects such redaction. Section
2112(b)(2) also provides that the special
master ‘‘shall afford all interested
persons an opportunity to submit
relevant, written information’’ relating
to the following:
1. The existence of evidence ‘‘that
there is not a preponderance of the
evidence that the illness, disability,
injury, condition, or death described in
the petition is due to factors unrelated
to the administration of the vaccine
described in the petition,’’ and
2. Any allegation in a petition that the
petitioner either:
a. ‘‘[S]ustained, or had significantly
aggravated, any illness, disability,
injury, or condition not set forth in the
Vaccine Injury Table but which was
caused by’’ one of the vaccines referred
to in the Table, or
b. ‘‘[S]ustained, or had significantly
aggravated, any illness, disability,
injury, or condition set forth in the
Vaccine Injury Table the first symptom
or manifestation of the onset or
significant aggravation of which did not
occur within the time period set forth in
the Table but which was caused by a
vaccine’’ referred to in the Table.
In accordance with Section
2112(b)(2), all interested persons may
submit written information relevant to
the issues described above in the case of
the petitions listed below. Any person
choosing to do so should file an original
and three (3) copies of the information
with the Clerk of the United States
Court of Federal Claims at the address
listed above (under the heading ‘‘For
Further Information Contact’’), with a
copy to HRSA addressed to Director,
Division of Injury Compensation
Programs, Healthcare Systems Bureau,
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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; Information Collection
Request Title: HIV Quality Measures (HIVQM) Module, OMB No. 0906-0022--
Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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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 September
25, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR title, to the desk
officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: HIV Quality Measures Module,
OMB No. 0906-0022--Revision.
Abstract: HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funds and
coordinates with cities, states, and local clinics/community-based
organizations to deliver efficient and effective HIV care, treatment,
and support to low income people living with HIV. Nearly two-thirds of
clients (patients) live at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty
level and approximately three-quarters of RWHAP clients are racial/
ethnic minorities. Since 1990, the RWHAP has developed a comprehensive
system of safety net providers who deliver high quality direct health
care and support services to over half a million people living with
HIV--more than 50 percent of all people living with diagnosed HIV in
the United States.
All parts of the RWHAP must follow the legislative requirements for
the establishment of clinical quality management programs to assess
their HIV services according to the most recent HHS guidelines and to
develop strategies to improve access to quality HIV services. The HIVQM
Module supports recipients and sub recipients in their clinical quality
management, performance measurement, service delivery, and monitoring
of client health outcomes; and supports the requirement imposed by the
Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit
Requirements for HHS Awards that recipients relate financial data to
performance accomplishments of their federal awards. 45 CFR 75.301. The
module is accessible via the Ryan White Services Report, an existing
online portal that RWHAP recipients already use for required data
collection of their services. While the use of the module is voluntary
for RWHAP recipients, its use is strongly encouraged.
The HRSA performance measures are comprised of the following
categories: (1) Core medical services, (2) all ages, (3) adolescent/
adult, (4) children with HIV, (5) HIV-exposed children, (6) medical
case management, (7) oral health, (8) AIDS Drug Assistance Program, and
(9) systems level performance measures. Recipients can choose the
performance measures they want to monitor and may enter data on their
measures into the module up to four times a year and then generate
reports to assess their performance. Recipients may also compare their
performance against other recipients regionally and nationally.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on March 14,
2019, vol. 84, No. 50; pp. 9362-63. There were four public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The HIVQM Module provides
recipients an easy-to-use and structured platform to voluntarily and
continually monitor their performance. The main purpose for the module
is to help recipients set goals and monitor performance measures and
quality improvement projects. For this revised ICR, HRSA is proposing
to allow recipients the option to enter data for specific populations
for a subset of performance measures based on age, gender, race,
ethnicity, and specific risk factors, which will allow for target
services and quality improvement activities to people most at need. In
addition, recipients will be able to generate reports of performance
measures, review them stratified by the recipients or their service
providers, and compare to results at the state, regional, and national
levels. HRSA is proposing these enhancements to increase the
functionality and overall usability of the HIVQM Module.
The HIVQM Module was piloted for this revision request in June
2019. Recipients or sub recipients, who submitted data for more than
two reporting periods in the last year and represented the use of
various data systems, submitted feedback on the new data stratification
feature. Their feedback included questions about: (1) How the data
stratification feature in the HIVQM Module would differ from and
integrate with CAREWare (CW) reporting; and (2) the availability of the
template for the data stratification feature. HRSA's responses included
describing the interface between CW and the HIVQM Module, explaining
how reports will be produced and further explaining why the HIVQM
Module will be a useful tool in comparing state, regional, and national
performance measure data among recipients/sub recipients who use the
HIVQM Module.
Likely Respondents: HRSA RWHAP Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D
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recipients and their service providers and the AIDS Drug Assistance
Program 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
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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HIVQM Module.................... 2,316 4 9,264 6 55,584
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Total....................... 2,316 .............. 9,264 .............. 55,584
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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