SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision.

Abstract: Over 50 Bureau of Health Workforce programs award grants to health professions schools and training programs across the United States to develop, expand, and enhance training, and to strengthen the distribution of the health workforce. These programs are governed by Titles III, VII, and VIII of the Public Health Service Act. Performance information is collected in the HRSA Performance Report for Grants and Cooperative Agreements. Data collection activities consisting of an annual progress report and an annual performance report satisfy statutory and programmatic requirements for performance measurement and evaluation (including specific Titles III, VII and VIII requirements), as well as the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 requirements. The performance measures were last revised in 2026 to ensure they addressed programmatic changes, met evolving program management needs, and reflected agency priorities. HRSA will continue with its current performance management strategy and make additional changes that reduce burden, simplify reporting, reflect new legislative or Department of Health and Human Services priorities, and enable longitudinal analysis of program performance. To further align with Administration priorities, this request seeks to make changes to the previously approved data collection method to include an additional dropdown option for three questions. These options are applicable to only Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) applicants and grantees (T23). These updates impact data related to sex rejecting procedures and services for minors that is collected for the purposes of CHGME grantee reporting periods and project outcomes. Changes to the previously approved instrument include ( printed page 57156) adding “Sex Rejecting Procedures and Services for Minors” as a dropdown option for Program Curriculum Changes form, adding “Individuals Receiving Training on Sex Rejecting Procedures and Services for Minors” as a dropdown option for the Individual Characteristics form and adding “This Site Offers Sex Rejecting Procedures and Services for Minors” as a dropdown option for the Experiential Training Sites form.

The CHGME specific report seeks to add an affirmation statement regarding adherence to Centers for Medicaid and Medicare price transparency rules as well as an attestation upon report submission that the CHGME hospital certifies the following:

“I ___ certify that I am authorized to submit this report to HRSA for grant ___, wherein:

• The hospital complies with all applicable federal grants regulations, including2 CFR part 200.
• The hospital complies with all terms and conditions of the CHGME award.
• The hospital complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws.
• The hospital complies with HIPAA and federal data security requirements.
• The hospital complies with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Price Transparency requirements at45 CFR part 180.”

Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the proposed data collection is to continue analysis and reporting of grantee training activities and education, identify details about the practice locations where trainees work after program completion, and report outcomes of funded initiatives. Data collected from these grant programs will also provide a description of the program activities of almost 2,000 reporting grantees to inform policymakers on the barriers, opportunities, and outcomes involved in health care workforce development. The proposed measures focus on four key outcomes:

(1) increasing the workforce supply of well-educated practitioners in needed professions,

(2) increasing the number of practitioners that practice in underserved and rural areas,

(3) enhancing the quality of education, and

(4) supporting educational infrastructure to increase the capacity to train more health professionals in high demand areas.

Failure to respond to, or provide accurate information in response to, this collection may result in a reduction in federal funding pursuant to section 340e(b)(3)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256e(b)(3)(A)).

Likely Respondents: Respondents are grantees of Bureau of Health Workforce health professions grant 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.

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.

91 FR 57155