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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request Title: Advanced
Nursing Education Program Specific
Form OMB No. 0915–0375—Revision
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 February 26,
2024.
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SUMMARY:
Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 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 Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, at (301) 443–3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Advanced Nursing Education (ANE)
Program Specific Form OMB No. 0915–
0375—Revision
Abstract: HRSA provides advanced
nursing education grants to educational
institutions to increase the supply,
distribution, quality of, and access to
advanced education nurses through the
ANE Programs. The ANE Programs are
authorized by section 811 of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296j), as
amended. This clearance request is for
continued approval of the information
collection OMB No. 0915–0375 with
revisions. This revision request seeks to
add the Advanced Nursing EducationNurse Practitioner Residency and
Fellowship (ANE–NPRF) Program and
the Maternity Care Nursing Workforce
Expansion Program to the ANE Program
Specific Form, and to remove programs
that have closed, which include the
Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse
Practitioner Residency (ANE–NPR)
Program and the Advanced Nursing
Education-Nurse Practitioner Residency
Integration Program. The activities
previously supported under the ANE–
NPR and the Advanced Nursing
Education-Nurse Practitioner Residency
Integration Program are now supported
under the ANE–NPRF Program.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: Section 811 of the Public
Health Service Act provides the
Secretary of Health and Human Services
with the authority to award grants to
and enter into contracts with eligible
entities to meet the costs of: (1) projects
that support the enhancement of
advanced nursing education and
ADDRESSES:
practice; and (2) traineeships for
individuals in advanced nursing
education programs. Under this section,
HRSA makes awards to entities who
train and support nurses characterized
as ‘‘advanced education nurses.’’ In
awarding such grants, funding
preference is given to applicants with
projects that will substantially benefit
rural or underserved populations or
help meet public health nursing needs
in state or local health departments;
special consideration is given to an
eligible entity that agrees to extend the
award to train advanced education
nurses who will practice in designated
Health Professional Shortage Areas.
The ANE Program Specific Form
allows HRSA to effectively target
funding and measure the impact of the
ANE Programs in meeting the legislative
intent and program goals of supporting
the enhancement of advanced nursing
education and creating opportunities for
individuals in advanced nursing
education programs to increase the
number of advanced practice nurses,
especially in rural and underserved
areas. Additionally, collecting this data
assists HRSA in carrying out the most
impactful program and ensuring
resources are used responsibly. The
proposed updates to this information
collection are to accurately list the
current ANE Programs.
Likely Respondents: Likely
respondents will be current ANE
Programs awardees and new applicants
to ANE Programs.
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
Form name
(includes the ANE program specific tables and attachments)
Number of
respondents
Advanced Nursing Education Workforce .............................
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship .............................................
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Total burden
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7
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1,092
448
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Form name
(includes the ANE program specific tables and attachments)
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Advanced Nursing Education Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners ..................................................................................
ANE–NPRF ..........................................................................
Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion ....................
54
64
10
1
1
1
54
64
10
7
7
7
378
448
70
Total ..............................................................................
348
........................
348
........................
2,436
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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
[OMHA–2302–N]
Medicare Program; Administrative Law
Judge Hearing Program for Medicare
Claim and Entitlement Appeals;
Quarterly Listing of Program
Issuances—July Through September
2023
Office of Medicare Hearings
and Appeals (OMHA), HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This quarterly notice lists the
OMHA Case Processing Manual (OCPM)
instructions that were published from
July through September 2023. This
manual standardizes the day-to-day
procedures for carrying out adjudicative
functions, in accordance with
applicable statutes, regulations, and
OMHA directives, and gives OMHA
staff direction for processing appeals at
the OMHA level of adjudication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jon
Dorman, by telephone at (571) 457–
7220, or by email at jon.dorman@
hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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respondents
I. Background
The Office of Medicare Hearings and
Appeals (OMHA), a staff division within
the Office of the Secretary within the
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U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), administers the
nationwide Administrative Law Judge
hearing program for Medicare claim;
organization, coverage, and at-risk
determination; and entitlement appeals
under sections 1869, 1155,
1876(c)(5)(B), 1852(g)(5), and 1860D–
4(h) of the Social Security Act (the Act).
OMHA ensures that Medicare
beneficiaries and the providers and
suppliers that furnish items or services
to Medicare beneficiaries, as well as
Medicare Advantage organizations
(MAOs), Medicaid State agencies, and
applicable plans, have a fair and
impartial forum to address
disagreements with Medicare coverage
and payment determinations made by
Medicare contractors, MAOs, or Part D
plan sponsors (PDPSs), and
determinations related to Medicare
eligibility and entitlement, Part B late
enrollment penalty, and income-related
monthly adjustment amounts (IRMAA)
made by the Social Security
Administration (SSA).
The Medicare claim, organization
determination, coverage determination,
and at-risk determination appeals
processes consist of four levels of
administrative review, and a fifth level
of review with the Federal district
courts after administrative remedies
under HHS regulations have been
exhausted. The first two levels of review
are administered by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
and conducted by Medicare contractors
for claim appeals, by MAOs and an
Independent Review Entity (IRE) for
Part C organization determination
appeals, or by PDPSs and an IRE for Part
D coverage determination and at-risk
determination appeals. The third level
of review is administered by OMHA and
conducted by Administrative Law
Judges and attorney adjudicators. The
fourth level of review is administered by
the HHS Departmental Appeals Board
(DAB) and conducted by the Medicare
Appeals Council (Council). In addition,
OMHA and the DAB administer the
second and third levels of appeal,
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respectively, for Medicare eligibility,
entitlement, Part B late enrollment
penalty, and IRMAA reconsiderations
made by SSA; a fourth level of review
with the Federal district courts is
available after administrative remedies
within SSA and HHS have been
exhausted.
Sections 1869, 1155, 1876(c)(5)(B),
1852(g)(5), and 1860D–4(h) of the Act
are implemented through the
regulations at 42 CFR part 405 subparts
I and J; part 417, subpart Q; part 422,
subpart M; part 423, subparts M and U;
and part 478, subpart B. As noted above,
OMHA administers the nationwide
Administrative Law Judge hearing
program in accordance with these
statutes and applicable regulations. To
help ensure nationwide consistency in
that effort, OMHA established a manual,
the OCPM. Through the OCPM, the
OMHA Chief Administrative Law Judge
establishes the day-to-day procedures
for carrying out adjudicative functions,
in accordance with applicable statutes,
regulations, and OMHA directives. The
OCPM provides direction for processing
appeals at the OMHA level of
adjudication for Medicare Part A and B
claims; Part C organization
determinations; Part D coverage
determinations and at-risk
determinations; and SSA eligibility and
entitlement, Part B late enrollment
penalty, and IRMAA determinations.
Section 1871(c) of the Act requires
that the Secretary publish a list of all
Medicare manual instructions,
interpretive rules, statements of policy,
and guidelines of general applicability
not issued as regulations at least every
three months in the Federal Register.
II. Format for the Quarterly Issuance
Notices
This quarterly notice provides the
specific updates to the OCPM that have
occurred in the three-month period of
July through September 2023. A
hyperlink to the available chapters on
the OMHA website is provided below.
The OMHA website contains the most
current, up-to-date chapters and
revisions to chapters, and will be
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Advanced
Nursing Education Program Specific Form OMB No. 0915-0375--Revision
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 February
26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 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 Joella Roland, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Advanced Nursing Education
(ANE) Program Specific Form OMB No. 0915-0375--Revision
Abstract: HRSA provides advanced nursing education grants to
educational institutions to increase the supply, distribution, quality
of, and access to advanced education nurses through the ANE Programs.
The ANE Programs are authorized by section 811 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296j), as amended. This clearance request is for
continued approval of the information collection OMB No. 0915-0375 with
revisions. This revision request seeks to add the Advanced Nursing
Education-Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship (ANE-NPRF)
Program and the Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion Program to
the ANE Program Specific Form, and to remove programs that have closed,
which include the Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse Practitioner
Residency (ANE-NPR) Program and the Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse
Practitioner Residency Integration Program. The activities previously
supported under the ANE-NPR and the Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse
Practitioner Residency Integration Program are now supported under the
ANE-NPRF Program.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 811 of the Public
Health Service Act provides the Secretary of Health and Human Services
with the authority to award grants to and enter into contracts with
eligible entities to meet the costs of: (1) projects that support the
enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice; and (2)
traineeships for individuals in advanced nursing education programs.
Under this section, HRSA makes awards to entities who train and support
nurses characterized as ``advanced education nurses.'' In awarding such
grants, funding preference is given to applicants with projects that
will substantially benefit rural or underserved populations or help
meet public health nursing needs in state or local health departments;
special consideration is given to an eligible entity that agrees to
extend the award to train advanced education nurses who will practice
in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
The ANE Program Specific Form allows HRSA to effectively target
funding and measure the impact of the ANE Programs in meeting the
legislative intent and program goals of supporting the enhancement of
advanced nursing education and creating opportunities for individuals
in advanced nursing education programs to increase the number of
advanced practice nurses, especially in rural and underserved areas.
Additionally, collecting this data assists HRSA in carrying out the
most impactful program and ensuring resources are used responsibly. The
proposed updates to this information collection are to accurately list
the current ANE Programs.
Likely Respondents: Likely respondents will be current ANE Programs
awardees and new applicants to ANE Programs.
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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Form name (includes the ANE Number of Average burden
program specific tables and Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
attachments) respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Advanced Nursing Education 156 1 156 7 1,092
Workforce......................
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship... 64 1 64 7 448
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Advanced Nursing Education 54 1 54 7 378
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners.
ANE-NPRF........................ 64 1 64 7 448
Maternity Care Nursing Workforce 10 1 10 7 70
Expansion......................
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Total....................... 348 .............. 348 .............. 2,436
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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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