[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 190 (Monday, October 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51487-51488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24460]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration


 Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed 
projects. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Projects

    1. National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on 
Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners: Regulations and Forms 
(OMB No. 0915-0126)--Extension, No Change--The Data Bank forms and 
regulations received a short-term approval in June 1995. As part of the 
terms of clearance, HRSA was required to submit an updated analysis of 
small medical malpractice payments (concerning the issue of monetary 
threshold reporting of claims) and provide OMB with an updated chart of 
the distribution of malpractice awards. The requirements have been 
satisfied and the results of the analysis have been forwarded to OMB. 
The Data Bank regulations and forms are now being resubmitted for a 3-
year approval. This request is for an extension with no changes. The 
burden estimates are as follows:

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                                                                                                        Total   
                   Title                      Number of    Frequency of    Number of     Hours per      burden  
                                             respondents     response      responses     response       hours   
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60.6(a) Reporting Corrections of Errors and                                                                     
 Omissions.................................        2,800            1.04        2,925           .25          731
60.6(b) Revisions to Original Report                                                                            
 Actions...................................          350            1.06          370           .75          278
60.7(b) Reporting Medical Malpractice                                                                           
 Payments..................................          150          105.33       15,800           .75       11,850
60.8(b) Reporting Licensure Action by State                                                                     
 Boards....................................          125           21.02        2,630           .75        1,973
60.9(a) Reporting Privileging and                                                                               
 Professional Society Actions..............        1,000            1.08        1,075           .75          806
60.9(c) Request for Hearings by Entitles                                                                        
 Found in Noncompliance....................            1            1               1          8.00            8
60.10(a)(1) Hospital Queries on Applicants;                                                                     
 60.11(a)(1) Other Hospital Queries;                                                                            
 60.11(a)(6) Queries for Professional                                                                           
 Review....................................        7,200           38.33      276,000           .08       23,000
60.10(a)(2) Biennial Queries by Hospitals..        6,000          186.83    1,121,000           .08       93,417
60.11(a)(2) Practitioner Queries...........       29,000            1          29,000           .25        7,250
60.11(a)(3) State Licensure Board Queries..           70          171          12,000           .08        1,000
60.11(a)(4) Queries by Nonhospital Health                                                                       
 Care Entities.............................        1,860          139.78      260,000           .08       21,667
60.11(a)(5) Queries by Attorneys...........           10            1              10           .25            3
60.11(a)(7) Queries for Research Purposes..          100            1               1          1.00          100
60.14(b) Practitioner's Disputing Data Bank                                                                     
 Reports...................................        1,080            1           1,080           .17          180
60.14(b) Practitioner Requests for                                                                              
 Secretarial Review........................          100            1             100          8.00          800
60.14(b) Practitioner Statements...........        2,700            1           2,700          1.00        2,700
Biennial Entity Verification Document......        5,750            1           5,750           .25        1,438
Entity File Update.........................        1,150            1           1,150           .25         288 
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Note: Estimated Total Annual Burden: 167,489                                                                    

    2. Survey of Exchange Visitor Physicians Remaining in the United 
States on a Waiver--NEW--Announcement is made of the intention to 
survey exchange visitor physicians, i.e., physicians who entered the 
United States on a J-1 visa to engage in graduate medical education, 
who have been granted waivers to the return home requirement. Exchange 
visitor foreign physicians receive a J-1 visa and agree to return to 
their home country or country of last residence for a minimum of two 
years upon completing their training. The Department of Health and 
Human Services needs information about practice specialty and site of 
these physicians to make informed decisions regarding the 
implementation of waiver policy. A survey will be conducted to obtain 
the following items of information: (1) marital status; (2) basis of 
waiver; (3) initial and current geographic location; (4) initial and 
current medical specialty; (5) number of years of training completed in 
the U.S.; (6) changes of venue after initial practice site; (7) 
sequence of specialties after initial practice specialty.

                                                                                                                

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                                                                Total   
    Type of form       Number of    Frequency    Hours per      burden  
                      respondents  of response    response      hours   
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Survey of Physicians                                                    
 with J-1 Visa                                                          
 Waivers............        1,457            1          .50          729
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    Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: September 27, 1995.
J. Henry Montes,
Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 95-24460 Filed 9-29-95; 8:45 am]
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