81 FR 41315 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 122 (June 24, 2016)
Health Resources and Services Administration
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 122 (June 24, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-14952 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 122 (Friday, June 24, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 41315-41316] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-14952] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Resources and Services Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services Administration (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 August 23, 2016. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N-39, 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 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: Small Rural Hospital Transition Project (SRHT) OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New. Abstract: Under Section 330A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c(e)), the Federal Office of Rural [[Page 41316]] Health Policy (FORHP) funds grant programs supporting expanding access to, coordinating, restraining the cost of, and improving the quality of essential health care services in rural and frontier communities. Small rural hospitals are facing many challenges in the new health care environment, including the concurrent need to better measure and account for quality of care in all settings; improve transitions of care as patients move from one care setting to another; the evolution of new payment approaches such as value-based purchasing; and, new approaches to care delivery such as accountable care organizations (ACO) and patient-centered medical homes. Success in this new environment will require bridging the gaps between the current system and the newly emerging system of healthcare delivery and payment. Because little is known about how these new models might impact rural communities, there is a need to help hospitals understand and consider those factors that would make them logical participants in health care systems that focus on value. The SRHT, also funded by Section 330A, will assist small rural hospitals facing these challenges. The purpose of the project is to provide on-site technical assistance to nine small rural hospitals residing in persistent poverty counties. Technical assistance will be provided in the areas of: (1) Financial assessments, (2) creating a quality-focused environment, (3) aligning services to community need, and, (4) to the extent that financial and quality core areas have been stabilized, provide assistance to help recipients of technical assistance consider factors that would make them logical participants in health care systems that focus on value (for example ACOs, shared savings programs, primary care medical homes). Need and Proposed Use of the Information: SRHT includes a deliverable to design processes for developing, receiving, reviewing, and scoring hospital applications for participation in the SRHT project. The processes will ensure that the selection of applicants is consistent with established criteria and hospitals' readiness or ability to implement consultants' recommendations. Specifically, the application form will be designed to solicit information that will be scored and ranked to aid in the selection of nine small rural hospitals to receive on-site technical assistance. Likely Respondents: Small rural hospitals located in a rural community, as defined by FORHP, persistent poverty county or a rural census tract of a metro persistent poverty county and have 49 staffed beds or less as reported on the hospital's most recently filed Medicare Cost Report. Hospitals may be for-profit or not-for-profit. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours respondent hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRHT Online Application......... 30 38 1,140 .50 570 Assessment: Performance 30 29 870 .25 217.5 Excellence for Rural Hospitals. Total....................... 30 * .............. 2,010 .............. 787.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The same individuals complete the SRHT Online Application and the Assessment for a total of 30 respondents. 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. Jason E. Bennett, Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. [FR Doc. 2016-14952 Filed 6-23-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4165-15-P
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outcomes. The data will be used to: (1) Survey; representatives from partner requested. This includes the time
Conduct ongoing performance organizations for the Community Action needed to review instructions; to
monitoring of the program; (2) provide Network Survey; program staff, develop, acquire, install and utilize
credible and rigorous evidence of providers, and partners for the Healthy technology and systems for the purpose
program effect on outcomes; (3) assess Start Site Visit Protocol; and program of collecting, validating and verifying
the relative contribution of the five participants for the Healthy Start information, processing and
program approaches to individual and Participant Focus Group Protocol. maintaining information, and disclosing
community-level outcomes; (4) meet Respondents for the redesigned 3Ps and providing information; to train
program needs for accountability, Information Form (i.e., (1) Demographic personnel and to be able to respond to
programmatic decision-making, and Intake; (2) Pregnancy Status/History; (3) a collection of information; to search
ongoing quality assurance; and (5) Preconception; (4) Prenatal; (5) data sources; to complete and review
strengthen the evidence-base, and Postpartum; and (6) Interconception/ the collection of information; and to
identify best and promising practices for Parenting) is pregnant women and transmit or otherwise disclose the
the program to support sustainability, women of reproductive age who are information. The total annual burden
replication, and dissemination of the served by the Healthy Start program. hours estimated for this Information
program. Burden Statement: Burden in this Collection Request are summarized in
Likely Respondents: Respondents context means the time expended by the table below.
include project directors and staff for persons to generate, maintain, retain, Total Estimated Annualized burden
the National Healthy Start Program disclose or provide the information hours:
Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response hours
respondent (in hours)
3Ps Information Form: .........................................................
1. Demographic Intake Form ............................................... * 40,675 1 40,675 0.25 10,169
2. Pregnancy Status/History ................................................ 40,675 1 40,675 0.42 17,084
3. Preconception .................................................................. * 20,337 1 20,337 1.5 30,506
4. Prenatal ............................................................................ 20,337 1 20,337 2.00 40,674
5. Postpartum ....................................................................... 20,337 1 20,337 1.8 37,285
6. Interconception/Parenting ................................................ 20,337 1 20,337 2.00 40,674
National Healthy Start Program Web Survey ...................... 88 1 88 2.00 176
CAN member Web Survey .................................................. 225 1 225 0.75 169
Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol .......................................... 15 1 15 6.00 90
Healthy Start Participant Focus Group Protocol ................. 180 1 180 1.00 180
Total .............................................................................. 61,520 ........................ 61,520 ........................ 177,007
* The same individuals (40,675) complete the Demographic Intake and Pregnancy Status/History forms, and a subset of these same individuals
(20,337) also complete the Preconception, Prenatal, Postpartum, and Interconception/Parenting forms for total of 61,520 respondents and
responses.
HRSA specifically requests comments DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND estimate, below, or any other aspect of
on (1) the necessity and utility of the HUMAN SERVICES the ICR.
proposed information collection for the DATES: Comments on this ICR must be
proper performance of the agency’s Health Resources and Services received no later than August 23, 2016.
functions, (2) the accuracy of the Administration ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
the quality, utility, and clarity of the Agency Information Collection Information Collection Clearance
information to be collected, and (4) the Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Officer, Room 14N–39, 5600 Fishers
use of automated collection techniques Comment Request Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
or other forms of information FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
AGENCY:Health Resources and Services
technology to minimize the information Administration, HHS. request more information on the
collection burden. proposed project or to obtain a copy of
ACTION: Notice. the data collection plans and draft
Jason E. Bennett,
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
Director, Division of Executive Secretariat. SUMMARY: In compliance with the or call the HRSA Information Collection
[FR Doc. 2016–14958 Filed 6–23–16; 8:45 am] requirement for opportunity for public Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
BILLING CODE 4165–15–P comment on proposed data collection SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the submitting comments or requesting
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the information, please include the
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Administration (HRSA) announces reference.
plans to submit an Information Information Collection Request Title:
Collection Request (ICR), described Small Rural Hospital Transition Project
below, to the Office of Management and (SRHT) OMB No. 0906–xxxx—New.
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the Abstract: Under Section 330A of the
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
from the public regarding the burden 254c(e)), the Federal Office of Rural
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Health Policy (FORHP) funds grant site technical assistance to nine small Likely Respondents: Small rural
programs supporting expanding access rural hospitals residing in persistent hospitals located in a rural community,
to, coordinating, restraining the cost of, poverty counties. Technical assistance as defined by FORHP, persistent poverty
and improving the quality of essential will be provided in the areas of: (1) county or a rural census tract of a metro
health care services in rural and frontier Financial assessments, (2) creating a persistent poverty county and have 49
communities. Small rural hospitals are quality-focused environment, (3) staffed beds or less as reported on the
facing many challenges in the new aligning services to community need, hospital’s most recently filed Medicare
health care environment, including the and, (4) to the extent that financial and Cost Report. Hospitals may be for-profit
concurrent need to better measure and quality core areas have been stabilized, or not-for-profit.
account for quality of care in all provide assistance to help recipients of
Burden Statement: Burden in this
settings; improve transitions of care as technical assistance consider factors
context means the time expended by
patients move from one care setting to that would make them logical
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
another; the evolution of new payment participants in health care systems that
disclose or provide the information
approaches such as value-based focus on value (for example ACOs,
requested. This includes the time
purchasing; and, new approaches to shared savings programs, primary care
needed to review instructions; to
care delivery such as accountable care medical homes).
Need and Proposed Use of the develop, acquire, install and utilize
organizations (ACO) and patient-
Information: SRHT includes a technology and systems for the purpose
centered medical homes. Success in this
new environment will require bridging deliverable to design processes for of collecting, validating and verifying
the gaps between the current system and developing, receiving, reviewing, and information, processing and
the newly emerging system of scoring hospital applications for maintaining information, and disclosing
healthcare delivery and payment. participation in the SRHT project. The and providing information; to train
Because little is known about how these processes will ensure that the selection personnel and to be able to respond to
new models might impact rural of applicants is consistent with a collection of information; to search
communities, there is a need to help established criteria and hospitals’ data sources; to complete and review
hospitals understand and consider those readiness or ability to implement the collection of information; and to
factors that would make them logical consultants’ recommendations. transmit or otherwise disclose the
participants in health care systems that Specifically, the application form will information. The total annual burden
focus on value. The SRHT, also funded be designed to solicit information that hours estimated for this ICR are
by Section 330A, will assist small rural will be scored and ranked to aid in the summarized in the table below.
hospitals facing these challenges. The selection of nine small rural hospitals to Total Estimated Annualized burden
purpose of the project is to provide on- receive on-site technical assistance. hours:
Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
SRHT Online Application ..................................................... 30 38 1,140 .50 570
Assessment: Performance Excellence for Rural Hospitals 30 29 870 .25 217.5
Total .............................................................................. 30 * ........................ 2,010 ........................ 787.5
* The same individuals complete the SRHT Online Application and the Assessment for a total of 30 respondents.
HRSA specifically requests comments DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND issues related to implementation of the
on: (1) The necessity and utility of the HUMAN SERVICES National Vaccine Injury Compensation
proposed information collection for the Program (VICP).
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or other forms of information AGENCY: Health Resources and Services HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room
technology to minimize the information Administration, HHS. 08N146B, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
collection burden. Nominations submitted electronically
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and
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Services Administration (HRSA) is
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Public Health Service Act (the Act), as SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
enacted by Public Law (Pub. L.) 99–660 authorities that established the ACCV,
and as subsequently amended, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of
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