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Administration
Proposed Updates to the Bright
Futures Periodicity Schedule as Part of
the HRSA-Supported Preventive
Services Guidelines for Infants,
Children, and Adolescents
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
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AGENCY:
The Periodicity Schedule of
the Bright Futures Recommendations for
Pediatric Preventive Health Care
(‘‘Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule’’),
as part of the HRSA-supported
preventive service guidelines for
infants, children, and adolescents, is
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maintained in part through a national
cooperative agreement, the Bright
Futures Pediatric Implementation
Program.
Members of the public are
invited to provide written comments no
later than September 21, 2020. All
comments received on or before this
date will be reviewed and considered by
the Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule
Workgroup and provided for further
consideration by HRSA in determining
the recommended updates that it will
support.
DATES:
Members of the public
interested in providing comments can
do so by accessing the public comment
web page at: https://mchb.hrsa.gov/
maternal-child-health-topics/childhealth/bright-futures.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bethany Miller, HRSA, Maternal and
Child Health Bureau, email: BMiller@
hrsa.gov, telephone: (301) 945–5156.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bright
Futures Program has been funded as a
cooperative agreement by HRSA since
1990. A primary focus of this program
is for the funding recipient to maintain
and update the Bright Futures
Guidelines for Health Supervision of
Infants, Children and Adolescents, a set
of materials and tools for providing
quality preventive care screenings and
well-child visits. One component of
these tools is the Bright Futures
Periodicity Schedule, a chart that
identifies the recommended screenings,
assessments, physical examinations,
and procedures to be delivered within
preventive checkups at each age
milestone. Over the program’s existence,
the Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule
has become the accepted schedule
within the United States for preventive
health services through the course of a
child’s development.
Under the Public Health Service Act,
non-grandfathered group health plans
and health insurance issuers must
include coverage, without cost sharing,
for certain preventive services, for plan
years (in the individual market, policy
years) that begin on or after the date that
is one year after the date the
recommendation or guideline is issued.
These include preventive health
services provided for in the Bright
Futures Periodicity Schedule as part of
the HRSA-supported Preventive
Services Guidelines for Infants,
Children, and Adolescents. A panel of
pediatric primary care experts convened
to review the latest evidence and
recommends updating the Bright
Futures Periodicity Schedule to include
screening all individuals ages 18 and
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older at least once for hepatitis C virus
infection. This proposed update aligns
with the United States Preventive
Services Task Force’s recommendation
that all adults ages 18 to 79 be screened
at least once for hepatitis C virus
infection.
The American Academy of Pediatrics,
which has been the HRSA cooperative
agreement recipient for this program
since 2007, maintains the Periodicity
Schedule. Under HRSA’s cooperative
agreement with the American Academy
of Pediatrics, the Bright Futures
Program is required to administer a
process for developing and regularly
recommending, as needed, updates to
the Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule.
As described in the Notice of Funding
Opportunity for the Bright Futures
Program (HRSA–18–078), the
consideration of potential updates is
expected to be ‘‘a comprehensive,
objective, and transparent review of
available evidence that incorporates
opportunity for public comment.’’
Thomas J. Engels,
Administrator.
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Health Resources and Services
Administration
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request Title: Enhancing
Linkage of Sexually Transmitted
Infection and Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Surveillance
Data in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program Evaluation
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 should be
received no later than October 19, 2020.
SUMMARY:
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Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
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
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Enhancing Linkage of Sexually
Transmitted Infection and Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Surveillance
Data in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program Evaluation, OMB No. 0906–
xxxx—New.
Abstract: HRSA’s Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program (RWHAP) funds and
coordinates with cities, states, and local
clinics/community-based organizations
to deliver efficient and effective Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care,
treatment, and support to low-income
people 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 and ethnic minorities.
Since 1990, the RWHAP has developed
a comprehensive system of HIV service
providers who deliver high quality
direct health care and support services
to over half a million people with HIV—
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more than 50 percent of all people with
diagnosed HIV in the United States.
HRSA is conducting a multi-year
evaluation of the Enhancing Linkage of
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
and HIV Surveillance Data in the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program (Enhancing
STI Linkage) demonstration project. The
Enhancing STI Linkage demonstration
project is a capacity building
cooperative agreement that seeks to
improve linkage, re-engagement in care,
and health outcomes for people with
HIV in the RWHAP. Through this
demonstration project, a Technical
Assistance Provider is collaborating
with four RWHAP Part B jurisdictions to
provide them with tailored training and
technical assistance (TA) to facilitate
data sharing across STI and HIV
surveillance systems. A persistent
barrier to addressing HIV and STI
infections simultaneously and jointly is
the lack of data systems linking HIV and
STI surveillance data. Aside from
helping to address problems around
coinfection, there are substantial
opportunities—particularly for the
RWHAP—associated with linking HIV
and STI surveillance data, including,
but not limited to, identifying people
with HIV currently out of care and
identifying people with STIs who could
be tested for HIV and promptly linked
to care. This clearance request is for
approval of data collection activities
associated with the Enhancing STI
Linkage evaluation which will occur
simultaneously with the demonstration
project, over a three-year project period.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: This mixed methods
evaluation will assess the achievement
and effectiveness of the Enhancing STI
Linkage demonstration project. HRSA
will collect quantitative and qualitative
data to inform the HRSA on how to
enhance jurisdictions’ use of STI and
HIV surveillance data to improve
service delivery and HIV-related health
outcomes. Information gleaned from the
Enhancing STI Linkage evaluation may
be used to enhance and coordinate
health departments’ responses to HIV
and STI epidemics and affect change in
HIV care continuum outcomes.
Likely Respondents: Multiple
respondents from four HRSA RWHAP
Part B recipients, including data endusers identified by the Part B recipients
within their jurisdiction.
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:
ANNUALIZED DATA COLLECTION BURDEN—YEARS 2 AND 3
Type of
respondent
Form name
Jurisdiction TA
Recipient.
Policy Stakeholder
Jurisdiction TA Recipient Semi-Structured Interview Guide.
Policy Stakeholder Semi-Structured
Interview Guide.
Data End-User Survey ......................
............................................................
Data End-User .....
Total ..............
Number of
respondents
Number
responses per
respondent *
Total
responses
Average burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
12
2
24
1
24
12
2
24
.5
12
105
129
2
........................
210
258
.17
........................
36
72
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* Note: Burden hours represent responses for both years 2 and 3; and there are 2 responses per respondent, indicating one in each year (one
in year 2 and another in year 3).
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
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technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
National Committee on Vital and Health
Statistics: Meeting
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
[OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Enhancing
Linkage of Sexually Transmitted Infection and Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Surveillance Data in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Evaluation
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 should be received no later than October
19, 2020.
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance 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 information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Enhancing Linkage of Sexually
Transmitted Infection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Surveillance
Data in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Evaluation, OMB No. 0906-xxxx--
New.
Abstract: HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funds and
coordinates with cities, states, and local clinics/community-based
organizations to deliver efficient and effective Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV) care, treatment, and support to low-income people 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 and ethnic minorities. Since 1990, the RWHAP has
developed a comprehensive system of HIV service providers who deliver
high quality direct health care and support services to over half a
million people with HIV--more than 50 percent of all people with
diagnosed HIV in the United States.
HRSA is conducting a multi-year evaluation of the Enhancing Linkage
of Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and HIV Surveillance Data in
the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (Enhancing STI Linkage) demonstration
project. The Enhancing STI Linkage demonstration project is a capacity
building cooperative agreement that seeks to improve linkage, re-
engagement in care, and health outcomes for people with HIV in the
RWHAP. Through this demonstration project, a Technical Assistance
Provider is collaborating with four RWHAP Part B jurisdictions to
provide them with tailored training and technical assistance (TA) to
facilitate data sharing across STI and HIV surveillance systems. A
persistent barrier to addressing HIV and STI infections simultaneously
and jointly is the lack of data systems linking HIV and STI
surveillance data. Aside from helping to address problems around
coinfection, there are substantial opportunities--particularly for the
RWHAP--associated with linking HIV and STI surveillance data,
including, but not limited to, identifying people with HIV currently
out of care and identifying people with STIs who could be tested for
HIV and promptly linked to care. This clearance request is for approval
of data collection activities associated with the Enhancing STI Linkage
evaluation which will occur simultaneously with the demonstration
project, over a three-year project period.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: This mixed methods
evaluation will assess the achievement and effectiveness of the
Enhancing STI Linkage demonstration project. HRSA will collect
quantitative and qualitative data to inform the HRSA on how to enhance
jurisdictions' use of STI and HIV surveillance data to improve service
delivery and HIV-related health outcomes. Information gleaned from the
Enhancing STI Linkage evaluation may be used to enhance and coordinate
health departments' responses to HIV and STI epidemics and affect
change in HIV care continuum outcomes.
Likely Respondents: Multiple respondents from four HRSA RWHAP Part
B recipients, including data end-users identified by the Part B
recipients within their jurisdiction.
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:
Annualized Data Collection Burden--Years 2 and 3
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Number Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent * responses (in hours) hours
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Jurisdiction TA Recipient................. Jurisdiction TA Recipient 12 2 24 1 24
Semi-Structured Interview
Guide.
Policy Stakeholder........................ Policy Stakeholder Semi- 12 2 24 .5 12
Structured Interview Guide.
Data End-User............................. Data End-User Survey........ 105 2 210 .17 36
Total................................. ............................ 129 .............. 258 .............. 72
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* Note: Burden hours represent responses for both years 2 and 3; and there are 2 responses per respondent, indicating one in each year (one in year 2
and another in year 3).
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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