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eligible entities to promote rural health
care services outreach by improving and
expanding the delivery of health care
services to include new and enhanced
services in rural areas, through
community engagement and evidencebased or innovative, evidence-informed
models. HRSA currently collects
information about Care Coordination
Program grants using an OMB-approved
set of performance measures and seeks
to revise that approved collection. The
proposed changes to the information
collection are a result of award recipient
feedback and information gathered from
the previously approved Care
Coordination Program measures.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: This program needs
measures that will enable HRSA to
provide aggregate program data required
by Congress under the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993.
These measures cover the principal
topic areas of interest to HRSA,
including: (1) access to care, (2)
population demographics and social
determinants of health, (3) care
coordination and network
infrastructure, (4) sustainability, (5)
leadership and workforce, (6) electronic
health record, (7) telehealth, (8)
utilization, and (9) clinical measures/
improved outcomes. All measures will
evaluate HRSA’s progress toward
achieving its goals.
The proposed changes include
additional components under ‘‘Access
to Care’’ and ‘‘Population Demographic’’
sections that seek information about
target population, counties served,
direct services, and social determinants
of health such as transportation barriers,
housing, and food insecurity. Questions
about Health Information Technology
and Telehealth have been modified to
reflect an updated telehealth definition
and to improve understanding of how
these important technologies are
affecting HRSA award recipients.
Sections previously titled ‘‘Care
Coordination’’ and ‘‘Quality
Improvement’’ were consolidated into
one section titled ‘‘Care Coordination
and Network Infrastructure’’ to improve
clarity and ease of reporting for
respondents. Part of the previous ‘‘Care
Coordination’’ section was revised to
include a section titled ‘‘Utilization’’ to
improve clarity of instructions for
related measures. Previously titled
‘‘Staffing’’ section was revised to
‘‘Leadership and Workforce
Composition’’ to improve measure
clarity and reduce overall burden for
respondents by consolidating measures
from previously separate ‘‘Staffing,’’
‘‘Quality Improvement,’’ and ‘‘Care
Coordination’’ sections. Revised
National Quality Forum and Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services measures
were also included to allow uniform
collection efforts throughout the Federal
Office of Rural Health Policy.
The total number of measures has
increased from 40 to 48 measures since
the previous information collection
request. Of the 48 measures, 11
measures are designated as ‘‘optional’’
or ‘‘complete as applicable.’’ The
measures within Section 6: ‘‘Electronic
Health Record’’ are noted as optional to
grantees. In Section 9: ‘‘Clinical
Measures/Improved Health Outcomes,’’
grantees are only required to respond to
Clinical Measure 1: Care Coordination.
Grantees can choose to provide data for
Clinical Measures 2–10 if applicable to
their projects. The total number of
responses has remained at 10 since the
previous information collection request.
The new Care Coordination Program
grant cycle maintained the same number
of award recipients and number of
respondents.
Likely Respondents: The respondents
would be recipients of the Rural Health
Care Coordination Program grants.
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
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Number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
burden
hours
Rural Health Care Coordination Program Performance Improvement
Measures ............................................................................................
10
1
10
3.5
35
Total ................................................................................................
10
1
10
3.5
35
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.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
Office of the Secretary
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Annual Update of the HHS Poverty
Guidelines
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Department of Health and
Human Services.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
This notice provides an
update of the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) poverty
guidelines to account for last calendar
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year’s increase in prices as measured by
the Consumer Price Index.
DATES: Applicable Date: January 11,
2024 unless an office administering a
program using the guidelines specifies a
different applicable date for that
particular program.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
Room 404E, Humphrey Building,
Department of Health and Human
Services, Washington, DC 20201.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information about how the guidelines
are used or how income is defined in a
particular program, contact the Federal,
State, or local office that is responsible
for that program. For information about
poverty figures for immigration forms,
the Hill-Burton Uncompensated
Services Program, and the number of
people in poverty, use the specific
telephone numbers and addresses given
below.
For general questions about the
poverty guidelines themselves, contact
Kendall Swenson, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, Room 404E.3, Humphrey
Building, Department of Health and
Human Services, Washington, DC
20201—telephone: (202) 695–2107—or
visit https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.
For general questions about the
poverty guidelines themselves, visit
https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.
For information about the percentage
multiple of the poverty guidelines to be
used on immigration forms such as
USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support,
contact U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services at 1–800–375–
5283. You also may visit https://
www.uscis.gov/i-864.
For information about the Hill-Burton
Uncompensated Services Program (free
or reduced-fee health care services at
certain hospitals and other facilities for
persons meeting eligibility criteria
involving the poverty guidelines), visit
https://www.hrsa.gov/get-health-care/
affordable/hill-burton/.
For information about the number of
people in poverty, visit the Poverty
section of the Census Bureau’s website
at https://www.census.gov/topics/
income-poverty/poverty.html or contact
the Census Bureau’s Customer Service
Center at 1–800–923–8282 (toll-free) or
visit https://ask.census.gov for further
information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42
U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of
the Department of Health and Human
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Services to update the poverty
guidelines at least annually, adjusting
them on the basis of the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U).
The poverty guidelines are used as an
eligibility criterion by Medicaid and a
number of other Federal programs. The
poverty guidelines issued here are a
simplified version of the poverty
thresholds that the Census Bureau uses
to prepare its estimates of the number of
individuals and families in poverty.
As required by law, this update is
accomplished by increasing the latest
published Census Bureau poverty
thresholds by the relevant percentage
change in the Consumer Price Index for
All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The
guidelines in this 2024 notice reflect the
4.1 percent price increase between
calendar years 2022 and 2023. After this
inflation adjustment, the guidelines are
rounded and adjusted to standardize the
differences between family sizes. In rare
circumstances, the rounding and
standardizing adjustments in the
formula result in small decreases in the
poverty guidelines for some household
sizes even when the inflation factor is
not negative. In cases where the year-toyear change in inflation is not negative
and the rounding and standardizing
adjustments in the formula result in
reductions to the guidelines from the
previous year for some household sizes,
the guidelines for the affected
household sizes are fixed at the prior
year’s guidelines. As in prior years,
these 2024 guidelines are roughly equal
to the poverty thresholds for calendar
year 2023 which the Census Bureau
expects to publish in final form in
September 2024.
The poverty guidelines continue to be
derived from the Census Bureau’s
current official poverty thresholds; they
are not derived from the Census
Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure
(SPM).
The following guideline figures
represent annual income.
2024 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE
48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Persons in family/
household
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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$15,060
20,440
25,820
31,200
36,580
41,960
47,340
52,720
For families/households with more
than 8 persons, add $5,380 for each
additional person.
2024 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
ALASKA
Persons in family/
household
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
Poverty guideline
$18,810
25,540
32,270
39,000
45,730
52,460
59,190
65,920
For families/households with more
than 8 persons, add $6,730 for each
additional person.
2024 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
HAWAII
Persons in family/
household
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................
Poverty guideline
$17,310
23,500
29,690
35,880
42,070
48,260
54,450
60,640
For families/households with more
than 8 persons, add $6,190 for each
additional person.
Separate poverty guideline figures for
Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of
Economic Opportunity administrative
practice beginning in the 1966–1970
period. (Note that the Census Bureau
poverty thresholds—the version of the
poverty measure used for statistical
purposes—have never had separate
figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The
poverty guidelines are not defined for
Puerto Rico or other outlying
jurisdictions. In cases in which a
Federal program using the poverty
guidelines serves any of those
jurisdictions, the Federal office that
administers the program is generally
responsible for deciding whether to use
the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines
for those jurisdictions or to follow some
other procedure.
Due to confusing legislative language
dating back to 1972, the poverty
guidelines sometimes have been
mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’
(Office of Management and Budget)
poverty guidelines or poverty line. In
fact, OMB has never issued the
guidelines; the guidelines are issued
each year by the Department of Health
and Human Services. The poverty
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guidelines may be formally referenced
as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated
periodically in the Federal Register by
the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services under the authority of
42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’
Some federal programs use a
percentage multiple of the guidelines
(for example, 125 percent or 185 percent
of the guidelines), as noted in relevant
authorizing legislation or program
regulations. Non-Federal organizations
that use the poverty guidelines under
their own authority in non-federallyfunded activities also may choose to use
a percentage multiple of the guidelines.
The poverty guidelines do not make a
distinction between farm and non-farm
families, or between aged and non-aged
units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty
thresholds have separate figures for aged
and non-aged one-person and twoperson units.)
This notice does not provide
definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or
‘‘family’’ as there is considerable
variation of these terms among programs
that use the poverty guidelines. The
legislation or regulations governing each
program define these terms and
determine how the program applies the
poverty guidelines. In cases where
legislation or regulations do not
establish these definitions, the entity
that administers or funds the program is
responsible to define such terms as
‘‘income’’ and ‘‘family.’’ Therefore,
questions such as net or gross income,
counted or excluded income, or
household size should be directed to the
entity that administers or funds the
program.
Dated: January 11, 2024.
Xavier Becerra,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human
Services.
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Interagency Coordinating Committee
on the Validation of Alternative
Methods Communities of Practice
Webinar on Implementing
Computational Approaches for
Regulatory Safety Assessments;
Notice of Public Webinar; Registration
Information
AGENCY:
National Institutes of Health,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
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The Interagency Coordinating
Committee on the Validation of
Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)
announces the public webinar
‘‘Implementing Computational
Approaches for Regulatory Safety
Assessments.’’ The webinar is organized
on behalf of ICCVAM by the National
Toxicology Program Interagency Center
for the Evaluation of Alternative
Toxicological Methods (NICEATM).
Interested persons may participate via
the web meeting platform. Time will be
allotted for questions from the audience.
Information about the webinar and
registration are available at https://
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/commprac-2024.
DATES:
Webinar: January 29, 2024, 10 a.m. to
approximately 12 noon EST.
Registration for Webinar: January 10,
2024, until 12:00 noon EST January 29,
2024. Registration to view the webinar
is required.
ADDRESSES: Webinar web page: https://
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/commprac-2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Helena Hogberg, Staff Scientist,
NICEATM, email: helena.hogbergdurdock@nih.gov, telephone: (984) 287–
3150.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: ICCVAM promotes the
development and validation of toxicity
testing methods that protect human
health and the environment while
replacing, reducing, or refining animal
use. ICCVAM also provides guidance to
test method developers and facilitates
collaborations that promote the
development of new test methods. To
address these goals, ICCVAM will hold
a Communities of Practice webinar on
‘‘Implementing Computational
Approaches for Regulatory Safety
Assessments.’’
Computational toxicology methods
can be useful for generating bioactivity
predictions for chemicals for which
limited toxicity data are available. They
can also help users understand and
interpret large, diverse bioactivity data
sets, or predict how a chemical might
behave in the body. However, users
with limited experience with such
methods may find it difficult to use
them or interpret their outputs, or even
understand how the methods could be
applied in a specific context.
This webinar will discuss how to
establish confidence in computational
approaches for regulatory applications.
Ongoing activities and key insights will
be described in three presentations by
speakers from the U.S. government and
the private sector focusing on
applications of tools such as structurebased models to predict chemical
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bioactivity and pharmacokinetic models
to support understanding of chemical
metabolism and disposition. The
preliminary agenda and additional
information about presentations will be
posted at https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/
commprac-2024 as they become
available.
Webinar and Registration: This
webinar is open to the public with time
scheduled for questions by participants
following each presentation.
Registration for the webinar is required.
Registration will open on or before
January 10, 2024, and remain open
through 12 noon EST on January 29,
2024. Registration is available at https://
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/commprac-2024.
Interested individuals are encouraged to
visit this web page to stay abreast of the
most current webinar information.
Registrants will receive instructions on
how to access and participate in the
webinar in the email confirming their
registration. TTY users should contact
the Federal TTY Relay Service at 800–
877–8339. Requests should be made at
least five business days in advance of
the event.
Background Information on ICCVAM
and NICEATM: ICCVAM is an
interagency committee composed of
representatives from 17 Federal
regulatory and research agencies that
require, use, generate, or disseminate
toxicological and safety testing
information. ICCVAM conducts
technical evaluations of new, revised,
and alternative safety testing methods
and integrated testing strategies with
regulatory applicability. ICCVAM also
promotes the scientific validation and
regulatory acceptance of testing
methods that more accurately assess the
safety and hazards of chemicals and
products and replace, reduce, or refine
animal use.
The ICCVAM Authorization Act of
2000 (42 U.S.C. 285l–3) establishes
ICCVAM as a permanent interagency
committee of the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences and
provides the authority for ICCVAM
involvement in activities relevant to the
development of alternative test
methods. Additional information about
ICCVAM can be found at https://
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/iccvam.
NICEATM administers ICCVAM,
provides support for ICCVAM-related
activities, and conducts and publishes
analyses and evaluations of data from
new, revised, and alternative testing
approaches. NICEATM and ICCVAM
work collaboratively to evaluate new
and improved testing approaches
applicable to the needs of U.S. Federal
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides an update of the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) poverty guidelines to account for last calendar
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year's increase in prices as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
DATES: Applicable Date: January 11, 2024 unless an office administering
a program using the guidelines specifies a different applicable date
for that particular program.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey Building, Department of Health and
Human Services, Washington, DC 20201.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about how the
guidelines are used or how income is defined in a particular program,
contact the Federal, State, or local office that is responsible for
that program. For information about poverty figures for immigration
forms, the Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program, and the number
of people in poverty, use the specific telephone numbers and addresses
given below.
For general questions about the poverty guidelines themselves,
contact Kendall Swenson, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation, Room 404E.3, Humphrey Building, Department of Health
and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201--telephone: (202) 695-2107--or
visit https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.
For general questions about the poverty guidelines themselves,
visit https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.
For information about the percentage multiple of the poverty
guidelines to be used on immigration forms such as USCIS Form I-864,
Affidavit of Support, contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
at 1-800-375-5283. You also may visit https://www.uscis.gov/i-864.
For information about the Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services
Program (free or reduced-fee health care services at certain hospitals
and other facilities for persons meeting eligibility criteria involving
the poverty guidelines), visit https://www.hrsa.gov/get-health-care/affordable/hill-burton/.
For information about the number of people in poverty, visit the
Poverty section of the Census Bureau's website at https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty.html or contact the Census
Bureau's Customer Service Center at 1-800-923-8282 (toll-free) or visit
https://ask.census.gov for further information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of
1981 (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services to update the poverty guidelines at least
annually, adjusting them on the basis of the Consumer Price Index for
All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). The poverty guidelines are used as an
eligibility criterion by Medicaid and a number of other Federal
programs. The poverty guidelines issued here are a simplified version
of the poverty thresholds that the Census Bureau uses to prepare its
estimates of the number of individuals and families in poverty.
As required by law, this update is accomplished by increasing the
latest published Census Bureau poverty thresholds by the relevant
percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
(CPI-U). The guidelines in this 2024 notice reflect the 4.1 percent
price increase between calendar years 2022 and 2023. After this
inflation adjustment, the guidelines are rounded and adjusted to
standardize the differences between family sizes. In rare
circumstances, the rounding and standardizing adjustments in the
formula result in small decreases in the poverty guidelines for some
household sizes even when the inflation factor is not negative. In
cases where the year-to-year change in inflation is not negative and
the rounding and standardizing adjustments in the formula result in
reductions to the guidelines from the previous year for some household
sizes, the guidelines for the affected household sizes are fixed at the
prior year's guidelines. As in prior years, these 2024 guidelines are
roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for calendar year 2023 which
the Census Bureau expects to publish in final form in September 2024.
The poverty guidelines continue to be derived from the Census
Bureau's current official poverty thresholds; they are not derived from
the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).
The following guideline figures represent annual income.
2024 Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of
Columbia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Persons in family/ household Poverty guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.................................................... $15,060
2.................................................... 20,440
3.................................................... 25,820
4.................................................... 31,200
5.................................................... 36,580
6.................................................... 41,960
7.................................................... 47,340
8.................................................... 52,720
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $5,380 for
each additional person.
2024 Poverty Guidelines for Alaska
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Persons in family/ household Poverty guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.................................................... $18,810
2.................................................... 25,540
3.................................................... 32,270
4.................................................... 39,000
5.................................................... 45,730
6.................................................... 52,460
7.................................................... 59,190
8.................................................... 65,920
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $6,730 for
each additional person.
2024 Poverty Guidelines for Hawaii
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Persons in family/ household Poverty guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.................................................... $17,310
2.................................................... 23,500
3.................................................... 29,690
4.................................................... 35,880
5.................................................... 42,070
6.................................................... 48,260
7.................................................... 54,450
8.................................................... 60,640
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $6,190 for
each additional person.
Separate poverty guideline figures for Alaska and Hawaii reflect
Office of Economic Opportunity administrative practice beginning in the
1966-1970 period. (Note that the Census Bureau poverty thresholds--the
version of the poverty measure used for statistical purposes--have
never had separate figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The poverty
guidelines are not defined for Puerto Rico or other outlying
jurisdictions. In cases in which a Federal program using the poverty
guidelines serves any of those jurisdictions, the Federal office that
administers the program is generally responsible for deciding whether
to use the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines for those jurisdictions
or to follow some other procedure.
Due to confusing legislative language dating back to 1972, the
poverty guidelines sometimes have been mistakenly referred to as the
``OMB'' (Office of Management and Budget) poverty guidelines or poverty
line. In fact, OMB has never issued the guidelines; the guidelines are
issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services. The
poverty
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guidelines may be formally referenced as ``the poverty guidelines
updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).''
Some federal programs use a percentage multiple of the guidelines
(for example, 125 percent or 185 percent of the guidelines), as noted
in relevant authorizing legislation or program regulations. Non-Federal
organizations that use the poverty guidelines under their own authority
in non-federally-funded activities also may choose to use a percentage
multiple of the guidelines.
The poverty guidelines do not make a distinction between farm and
non-farm families, or between aged and non-aged units. (Only the Census
Bureau poverty thresholds have separate figures for aged and non-aged
one-person and two-person units.)
This notice does not provide definitions of such terms as
``income'' or ``family'' as there is considerable variation of these
terms among programs that use the poverty guidelines. The legislation
or regulations governing each program define these terms and determine
how the program applies the poverty guidelines. In cases where
legislation or regulations do not establish these definitions, the
entity that administers or funds the program is responsible to define
such terms as ``income'' and ``family.'' Therefore, questions such as
net or gross income, counted or excluded income, or household size
should be directed to the entity that administers or funds the program.
Dated: January 11, 2024.
Xavier Becerra,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2024-00796 Filed 1-16-24; 8:45 am]
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