Health Resources and Services Administration 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

HRSA will be giving a non-competitive one-time replacement award to support comprehensive primary care services for persons living with HIV/AIDS, including primary medical care, laboratory testing, oral health care, outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment, specialty and subspecialty care, referrals for health and support services and adherence monitoring/education services to the Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center, Viral Disease Clinic to ensure continuity of critical HIV medical care and treatment services, to clients in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Notice is hereby given of the cancellation of the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, November 15, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and November 16, 2010, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20910, which was published in the Federal Register on October 19, 2010, FR Doc. 2010-26205 (75 FR 64318).

HRSA will be transferring Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, Part C funds as a Non-Competitive Replacement Award, to the Institute for Family Health in order to ensure continuity of critical HIV medical care and treatment services and avoid a disruption of HIV/AIDS clinical care to clients in East and Central Harlem, in New York City.

The Health Resources and Services Administration published an Agency Information Collection document in the Federal Register of September 17, 2010 (FR Doc. 201-023260), on page 57037, regarding the Black Lung Clinics Program Database (OMB No. 0915-0292). In the burden table, the Total responses, Hours per response and Total burden hours are incorrect.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing a notice to alter the system of records for the National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and other Health Care Practitioners, HHS/HRSA/BHPR. The SORN 09-15-0054 was last published March 17, 1997. In accordance with the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, title IV of Public Law 99-660 (42 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.) authorizes the Secretary to establish a National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) to collect and release certain information relating to the professional competence and conduct of physicians, dentists, and other health care practitioners. This information is releasable only to specific entities described in the SORN. It requires the maintenance of records such as medical malpractice payments, adverse licensure and clinical privilege actions, disciplinary actions taken by Boards of Medical Examiners, and professional review actions taken by health care entities against physicians, dentists, and other healthcare practitioners. Section 1921 of the Social Security Act, as amended by Section 5(b) of the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987 (MMPPPA), and as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA), expands reporting to the NPDB to authorize maintenance of records of adverse licensure actions and negative actions or findings taken by a State licensing authority, peer review organization, or private accreditation entity against all healthcare practitioners or healthcare entities. The purpose of these alterations is to update: (1) System location; (2) Category of individuals covered by the system; (3) Category of records in the system; (4) Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system; (5) Notification procedure; (6) Record access procedures; (7) Contesting record procedures; and (8) Routine uses for the contractors accessing the system. Also, HRSA is proposing an additional routine use, number 17 (Responding to a breach of the security or confidentiality of information) for this system of records. The physical NPDB system which includes hardware and software will not be altered.

HRSA will be awarding, non-competitively, Part D Funds to support family-centered primary medical care, treatment, and support services (directly or through contracts) for women, infants, children, and youth with HIV/AIDS, to the University of Utah in order to ensure continuity of critical HIV medical care and support services, to women, infants, children and youth in Salt Lake City, Utah and the surrounding counties.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing a notice to alter the Correspondence Control System. This system of records is used to control and track all correspondence documents addressed or directed to, as well as initiated by, the Administrator, HRSA, or his/her subordinates, as well as other Agency documents, to assure timely and appropriate attention. The purposes of these alterations are to reflect a change in the system name and location; the system manager and address; policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system; contesting records procedures; and the addition of routine use number 3. The last update of this SORN 09-15-0059 was December 23, 1998 (63 FR 71145).