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If an AO is recognized by the Center
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
as having standards for accreditation
that meet or exceed Medicare
requirements, any provider entity
accredited by the national accrediting
body’s approved program may be
deemed to meet the Medicare
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least as stringent as the Medicare
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II. Approval of Accreditation
Organizations
Section 1865(a)(2) of the Act and our
regulations at § 488.5 require that
findings concerning review and
approval of an AO’s requirements
consider, among other factors, the
applying AO’s requirements for
accreditation; survey procedures;
resources for conducting required
surveys; capacity to furnish information
for use in enforcement activities;
monitoring procedures for provider
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the conditions or requirements; and
ability to provide CMS with the
necessary data for validation.
Section 1865(a)(3)(A) of the Act
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complete application, a notice
identifying the national accrediting
body making the request, describing the
nature of the request, and providing at
least a 30-day public comment period.
We have 210 days from the receipt of a
complete application to publish notice
of approval or denial of the application.
The purpose of this proposed notice
is to inform the public of the DNV–GL
Healthcare USA Inc. (DNV–GL) request
for initial approval of its psychiatric
hospital accreditation program. This
notice also solicits public comment on
whether the DNV–GL’s requirements
meet or exceed the Medicare conditions
of participation (CoPs) for psychiatric
hospitals.
III. Evaluation of Deeming Authority
Request
DNV–GL submitted all the necessary
materials to enable us to make a
determination concerning its request for
initial approval of its psychiatric
hospital accreditation program. This
application was determined to be
complete on January 2, 2020. Under
section 1865(a)(2) of the Act and our
regulations at § 488.5 (Application and
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re-application procedures for national
accrediting organizations), our review
and evaluation of the DNV–GL will be
conducted in accordance with, but not
necessarily limited to, the following
factors:
• The equivalency of the DNV–GL
standards for psychiatric hospitals as
compared with CMS’ psychiatric
hospital CoPs.
• The DNV–GL survey process to
determine the following:
++ The composition of the survey
team, surveyor qualifications, and the
ability of the organization to provide
continuing surveyor training.
++ The comparability of the DNV–
GL’s processes to those of state agencies,
including survey frequency, and the
ability to investigate and respond
appropriately to complaints against
accredited facilities.
++ The DNV–GL’s processes and
procedures for monitoring a psychiatric
hospital found out of compliance with
the DNV–GL’s program requirements.
These monitoring procedures are used
only when the DNV–GL identifies
noncompliance. If noncompliance is
identified through validation reviews or
complaint surveys, the state survey
agency monitors corrections as specified
at § 488.9(c).
++ The DNV–GL’s capacity to report
deficiencies to the surveyed facilities
and respond to the facility’s plan of
correction in a timely manner.
++ The DNV–GL’s capacity to
provide CMS with electronic data and
reports necessary for effective validation
and assessment of the organization’s
survey process.
++ The adequacy of the DNV–GL’s
staff and other resources, and its
financial viability.
++ The DNV–GL’s capacity to
adequately fund required surveys.
++ The DNV–GL’s policies with
respect to whether surveys are
announced or unannounced, to assure
that surveys are unannounced.
++ The DNV–GL’s policies and
procedures to avoid conflicts of interest,
including the appearance of conflicts of
interest, involving individuals who
conduct surveys or participate in
accreditation decisions.
++ The DNV–GL’s agreement to
provide CMS with a copy of the most
current accreditation survey together
with any other information related to
the survey as CMS may require
(including corrective action plans).
Upon completion of our evaluation,
including evaluation of public
comments received as a result of this
notice, we will publish a final notice in
the Federal Register announcing the
result of our evaluation.
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IV. Collection of Information
Requirements
This document does not impose
information collection requirements,
that is, reporting, recordkeeping or
third-party disclosure requirements.
Consequently, there is no need for
review by the Office of Management and
Budget under the authority of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
V. Response to Comments
Because of the large number of public
comments we normally receive on
Federal Register documents, we are not
able to acknowledge or respond to them
individually. We will consider all
comments we receive by the date and
time specified in the DATES section of
this preamble, and, when we proceed
with a subsequent document, we will
respond to the comments in the
preamble to that document.
Dated: February 13, 2020.
Seema Verma,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Questionnaire and
Data Collection Testing, Evaluation,
and Research for the Health Resources
and Services Administration, OMB No.
0915–0379— Extension
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR must be
received no later than May 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
SUMMARY:
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Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Questionnaire and Data Collection
Testing, Evaluation, and Research for
HRSA OMB No. 0915–0379—Extension.
Abstract: The purpose of collections
under this generic clearance is to obtain
formative information from respondents
to develop new questions,
questionnaires and tools and to identify
problems in instruments currently in
use. This clearance request is limited to
formative research activities
emphasizing data collection, toolkit
development, and estimation
procedures and reports for internal
decision-making and development
purposes. This clearance request does
not extend to the collection of data for
public release or policy formation. It is
anticipated that these studies will rely
heavily on qualitative techniques to
meet their objectives. In general, these
activities are not designed to yield
results that meet generally accepted
standards of statistical rigor but are
designed to obtain valuable formative
information to develop more effective
and efficient data collection tools that
will yield more accurate results and
decrease non-response.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA conducts cognitive
interviews, focus groups, usability tests,
field tests/pilot interviews, and
experimental research in laboratory and
field settings, both for applied
questionnaire development and
evaluation as well as more basic
research on response errors in surveys.
HRSA staff use various techniques to
evaluate interviewer administered, selfadministered, telephone, Computer
Assisted Personal Interviewing,
Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing,
Audio Computer-Assisted SelfInterviewing, and web-based
questionnaires.
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Professionally recognized procedures
are followed in each information
collection activity to ensure high quality
data. Examples of these procedures
could include the following:
• Monitoring by supervisory staff of a
certain percent of telephone interviews;
• Conducting cognitive interviewing
techniques, including think-aloud
techniques and debriefings;
• Data-entry from mail or paper-andpencil surveys will be computerized
through scannable forms or checked
through double-key entry;
• Observers will monitor focus
groups, and focus group proceedings
will be recorded; and
• Data submitted through on-line
surveys will be subjected to statistical
validation techniques to ensure
accuracy (such as disallowing out-ofrange values).
Each request under this generic
clearance will specify the procedures to
be used. Participation will be fully
voluntary, and non-participation will
have not affect eligibility for, or receipt
of, future HRSA health services research
activities or grant awards, recruitment
or participation. Specific testing and
evaluation procedures will be described
when we notify OMB about each new
request. Appropriate consent
procedures will be customized and used
for each information collection activity
and any collection of personal, privacyprotected information will be handled
in accordance with all applicable
requirements. If the encounter is to be
recorded, the respondent’s permission
to record will be obtained before
beginning the interview.
Screening—When screening is
required (e.g., quota sampling), the
screening will be as brief as possible
and the screening questionnaire will be
provided as part of the submission to
OMB.
Collection methods—The particular
information collection methods used
will vary, but may include the
following:
• Individual in-depth interviews—Indepth interviews will commonly be
used to ensure that the meaning of a
questionnaire or strategy is understood
by the respondent. When in-depth
interviewing is used, the interview
guide will be provided to OMB for
review.
• Focus groups—Focus groups will be
used to obtain insights into beliefs and
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understandings of the target audience
early in the development of a
questionnaire or tool. When focus
groups are used, the focus group
discussion guide will be provided to
OMB for review.
• Expert/Gatekeeper review of tools—
In some instances, tools designed for
patients may be reviewed in-depth by
medical providers or other gatekeepers
to provide feedback on the acceptability
and usability of a particular tool. This
would usually be in addition to
pretesting of the tool by the actual
patient or other user.
• Record abstractions—On occasion,
the development of a tool or other
information collection requires review
and interaction with records rather than
individuals.
• ‘‘Dress rehearsal’’ of a specific
protocol—In some instances, the
proposed pretesting will constitute a
walkthrough of the intended data
collection procedure. In these instances,
the request will mirror what is expected
to occur for the larger scale data
collection.
Likely Respondents: Respondents will
be recruited by means of advertisements
in public venues or through techniques
that replicate prospective data
collection activities that are the focus of
the project. For instance, a survey on
physician communication, designed to
be administered following an office
visit, might be pretested using the same
procedure. Each submission to OMB
will specify the specific recruitment
procedure to be used.
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.
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of information collection
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total burden
hours
Mail/email 1 ...........................................................................
Telephone ............................................................................
Web-based ...........................................................................
Focus Groups ......................................................................
In-person ..............................................................................
Automated 2 ..........................................................................
Cognitive Testing .................................................................
1,000
1,000
1,000
725
500
500
500
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1,000
1,000
1,000
725
500
500
500
0.26
0.26
0.25
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.41
260
260
250
725
500
500
705
Total ..............................................................................
5,225
........................
5,225
........................
3,200
1 May
2 May
include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
include testing of database software, Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing software, or other automated technologies.
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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Administration
Meetings of the National Advisory
Council on Migrant Health
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, this
notice announces that the National
Advisory Council on Migrant Health
(NACMH) will hold two public
meetings for the 2020 calendar year
(CY). Information about NACMH, and
agendas for these meetings can be found
on the NACMH website at: https://
bphc.hrsa.gov/qualityimprovement/
strategicpartnerships/nacmh/
index.html.
SUMMARY:
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Number of
responses per
respondent
DATES:
• May 5–6, 2020; 9:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. Mountain Time (MT).
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• November 4–5, 2020; 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).
ADDRESSES: The May meeting will be
held in-person at Courtyard Boulder
Longmont, 1410 Dry Creek Drive,
Longmont, Colorado 80503. The
November meeting will be held inperson at 5600 Fishers Lane, 5W07,
Rockville, Maryland 20857.
Instructions for joining the meetings
in-person will be posted on the NACMH
website 30 business days before the date
of the meeting. For meeting information
updates, go to the NACMH website at:
https://bphc.hrsa.gov/
qualityimprovement/strategic
partnerships/nacmh/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Esther Paul, NACMH Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), Strategic
Initiatives and Planning Division, Office
of Policy and Program Development,
Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA,
5600 Fishers Lane, 16N38B, Rockville,
Maryland 20857; 301–594–4300; or
epaul@hrsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NACMH
provides advice and recommendations
to the Secretary of HHS on policy,
program development, and other
matters of significance concerning the
activities under section 217 of the
Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 218). Specifically,
NACMH provides recommendations
concerning policy related to the
organization, operation, selection, and
funding of migrant health centers, and
other entities under grants and contracts
under section 330 of the PHS Act (42
U.S.C. 254b). NACMH meets twice each
calendar year, or at the discretion of the
DFO in consultation with the NACMH
Chair.
Since priorities dictate meeting times,
be advised that times and agenda items
are subject to change. For CY 2020
meetings, agenda items may include,
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but are not limited to, topics and issues
related to migratory and seasonal
agricultural worker health.
Refer to the NACMH website listed
above for all current and updated
information concerning the CY 2020
NACMH meetings, including draft
agendas and meeting materials, which
will be posted 30 calendar days before
the meeting.
Members of the public will have the
opportunity to provide comments.
Public participants may submit written
statements in advance of the scheduled
meetings. Oral comments will be
honored in the order they are requested
and may be limited as time allows.
Requests to submit a written statement
or make oral comments to the NACMH
should be sent to Esther Paul using the
contact information above at least 5
business days before the meeting date.
Individuals who need special
assistance or another reasonable
accommodation should notify Esther
Paul using the contact information
listed above at least 10 business days
before the meeting(s) they wish to
attend. Since the November 2020
meeting will occur in a federal
government building, attendees must go
through a security check to enter the
building. Non-U.S. citizen attendees
must notify HRSA of their planned
attendance at least 20 business days
prior to the meeting in order to facilitate
their entry into the building. All
attendees are required to present
government-issued identification prior
to entry.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Questionnaire and Data Collection Testing,
Evaluation, and Research for the Health Resources and Services
Administration, OMB No. 0915-0379-- Extension
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR must be received no later than May 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
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Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Lisa Wright-
Solomon, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301)
443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Questionnaire and Data
Collection Testing, Evaluation, and Research for HRSA OMB No. 0915-
0379--Extension.
Abstract: The purpose of collections under this generic clearance
is to obtain formative information from respondents to develop new
questions, questionnaires and tools and to identify problems in
instruments currently in use. This clearance request is limited to
formative research activities emphasizing data collection, toolkit
development, and estimation procedures and reports for internal
decision-making and development purposes. This clearance request does
not extend to the collection of data for public release or policy
formation. It is anticipated that these studies will rely heavily on
qualitative techniques to meet their objectives. In general, these
activities are not designed to yield results that meet generally
accepted standards of statistical rigor but are designed to obtain
valuable formative information to develop more effective and efficient
data collection tools that will yield more accurate results and
decrease non-response.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA conducts cognitive
interviews, focus groups, usability tests, field tests/pilot
interviews, and experimental research in laboratory and field settings,
both for applied questionnaire development and evaluation as well as
more basic research on response errors in surveys.
HRSA staff use various techniques to evaluate interviewer
administered, self-administered, telephone, Computer Assisted Personal
Interviewing, Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing, Audio Computer-
Assisted Self-Interviewing, and web-based questionnaires.
Professionally recognized procedures are followed in each
information collection activity to ensure high quality data. Examples
of these procedures could include the following:
Monitoring by supervisory staff of a certain percent of
telephone interviews;
Conducting cognitive interviewing techniques, including
think-aloud techniques and debriefings;
Data-entry from mail or paper-and-pencil surveys will be
computerized through scannable forms or checked through double-key
entry;
Observers will monitor focus groups, and focus group
proceedings will be recorded; and
Data submitted through on-line surveys will be subjected
to statistical validation techniques to ensure accuracy (such as
disallowing out-of-range values).
Each request under this generic clearance will specify the
procedures to be used. Participation will be fully voluntary, and non-
participation will have not affect eligibility for, or receipt of,
future HRSA health services research activities or grant awards,
recruitment or participation. Specific testing and evaluation
procedures will be described when we notify OMB about each new request.
Appropriate consent procedures will be customized and used for each
information collection activity and any collection of personal,
privacy-protected information will be handled in accordance with all
applicable requirements. If the encounter is to be recorded, the
respondent's permission to record will be obtained before beginning the
interview.
Screening--When screening is required (e.g., quota sampling), the
screening will be as brief as possible and the screening questionnaire
will be provided as part of the submission to OMB.
Collection methods--The particular information collection methods
used will vary, but may include the following:
Individual in-depth interviews--In-depth interviews will
commonly be used to ensure that the meaning of a questionnaire or
strategy is understood by the respondent. When in-depth interviewing is
used, the interview guide will be provided to OMB for review.
Focus groups--Focus groups will be used to obtain insights
into beliefs and understandings of the target audience early in the
development of a questionnaire or tool. When focus groups are used, the
focus group discussion guide will be provided to OMB for review.
Expert/Gatekeeper review of tools--In some instances,
tools designed for patients may be reviewed in-depth by medical
providers or other gatekeepers to provide feedback on the acceptability
and usability of a particular tool. This would usually be in addition
to pretesting of the tool by the actual patient or other user.
Record abstractions--On occasion, the development of a
tool or other information collection requires review and interaction
with records rather than individuals.
``Dress rehearsal'' of a specific protocol--In some
instances, the proposed pretesting will constitute a walkthrough of the
intended data collection procedure. In these instances, the request
will mirror what is expected to occur for the larger scale data
collection.
Likely Respondents: Respondents will be recruited by means of
advertisements in public venues or through techniques that replicate
prospective data collection activities that are the focus of the
project. For instance, a survey on physician communication, designed to
be administered following an office visit, might be pretested using the
same procedure. Each submission to OMB will specify the specific
recruitment procedure to be used.
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.
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Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Type of information collection respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Mail/email \1\.................. 1,000 1 1,000 0.26 260
Telephone....................... 1,000 1 1,000 0.26 260
Web-based....................... 1,000 1 1,000 0.25 250
Focus Groups.................... 725 1 725 1.0 725
In-person....................... 500 1 500 1.0 500
Automated \2\................... 500 1 500 1.0 500
Cognitive Testing............... 500 1 500 1.41 705
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Total....................... 5,225 .............. 5,225 .............. 3,200
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\1\ May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
\2\ May include testing of database software, Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing software, or other
automated technologies.
HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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