[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 94 (Monday, May 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 31011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11893]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

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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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hrs. per       Total  hour
            Form name               respondents     respondent       responses       response         burden
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Form E (Short)..................              42               1              42          *99.9            4,194
Form E (Long)...................              12               1              12          *46.7              560
Form F (Short)..................              42               1              42               8             336
Form F (Long)...................              12               1              12               8              96
IME Data *......................              54               1              54              14             756
Required GPRA Tables............              54               1              54              28           1,512
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    Total.......................              54                                                          7,454
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*The hours per response are paradoxically greater for the short form because of the relatively large number of
  hospitals which have been reporting residency counts to Medicare but expect considerable work in translating
  resident counts based on hospital cost-reporting years to counts, in part prospective, based on Federal fiscal
  years, including obtaining interim counts from other hospitals of incoming rotations.

    HRSA is requesting from OMB an emergency review and approval of 
this data collection within 40 days from the date of publication of 
this notice, with a 180-day approval period. During this 180-day 
approval period, we will publish a separate Federal Register notice 
announcing the initiation of an extensive 60-day review and public 
comment period on the data collection activity.
    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Morrall, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, 725 17th St., NM, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 8, 2000.
Claude Earl Fox,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 00-11893 Filed 5-12-00; 8:45 am]
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