[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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