[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 65717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30528]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources And Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft 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 Project: The Impact of the State Child Health Insurance 
Program on Selected Community Health Centers and Maternal Health 
Programs: NEW

    This study proposes to determine the impact of SCHIP implementation 
on the insurance status of children served by two HRSA programs--
community health centers (CHCs) and health departments' maternal and 
child health (MCH) programs--as well as the impact of SCHIP on these 
grantee organizations.
    Transactional data will be reviewed in up to 21 HRSA grantee 
organizations from seven states and will extract encounter-level 
administrative data (encrypted individual code, date of birth, gender, 
dates of service, CPT-4 codes, and insurance status) at time of each 
service for 1997, 1998, and 1999.
    Up to 20 former CHC or MCH patients (or their parents or guardians 
in the case of minors) will be surveyed by phone or mail in each site.
    These will be patients for whom retrospective data are available 
but who are no longer active users of the HRSA grantees.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

                                          Transactional Data Extraction
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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour
       Type of respondent           respondents     respondent       responses       response         burden
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Community Health Centers or                   21               2              42               5             210
 Maternal and Child Health
 Program........................
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                                Telephone/Mail Interviews/Surveys
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Former Users....................             420               1             420             .50             210
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    Total.......................             441  ..............             462  ..............             420
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: November 16, 1999.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 99-30528 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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