[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 49 (Monday, March 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13408-13409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5970]


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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: Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education 
Program--New

    Public Law Number 106-129 amended the Public Health Service Act to 
establish a new program to support graduate medical education (GME) in 
children's hospitals. The provision authorizes payments in FY 2000 and 
FY 2001 for direct and indirect expenses associated with operating 
approved GME programs. Section 340E(c)(1) states that the amount 
determined under this subsection for payments for direct medical 
expenses for a fiscal year is equal to the product of: (A) The updated 
per resident amount as determined, and (B) the average number of FTE 
residents in the hospital's approved graduate medical residency 
training programs as determined under section 1886(h)(4) of the Social 
Security Act during the fiscal year. The statute directs the Secretary 
to take into account factors identified in section 340E(b)(1)(B) and 
340E(d)(2)--case mix, number of FTE residents, treatment of more 
severely ill patients and the additional costs related to teaching 
residents.
    Administration of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical 
Education Program relies on the reporting of the number of full-time 
equivalent residents in applicant children's hospital training programs 
to determine the amount of direct and indirect expense payments to 
participating children's hospitals. Indirect expense payments will also 
be derived from a formula that requires the reporting of case mix index 
information from participating children's hospitals.
    Hospitals will be requested to submit such information in an annual 
application. The statute also requires reconciliation of the estimated 
numbers of residents with the actual number determined after the close 
of the fiscal year. Participating children's hospitals would be 
required to complete an adjusted report to correct such information on 
an annual basis.

                                       Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                      No. of       Responses per       Total         Hrs. per       Total hour
            Form name               respondents     respondent       responses       response         burden
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Form A..........................              48               1              48              28           1,344
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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: March 6, 2000.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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