[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66758-66759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28449]


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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 (OMB No. 0915-0247)

    Public Law 106-129 amended the Public Health Service Act to provide 
for the support of graduate medical education (GME) in children's 
hospitals. The provision authorizes payments for direct and indirect 
expenses associated with operating approved GME programs. Section 
340E(c)(1) of the PHS Act, as amended, 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. Section 340E(d)(2) requires the 
Secretary to determine the appropriate amount of indirect medical 
education for expenses associated with the treatment of more severely 
ill patients and the additional costs relating to teaching residents in 
such programs to a children's hospital by considering variations in 
case mix among children's hospitals, and the hospitals' number of FTE 
residents in approved training programs.
    Administration of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical 
Education

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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 at the end 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    Wage rate  ($/    Total hour
                Form name                   respondents     respondents      responses       response         burden            hr)          cost ($)
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HRSA-99-1:                                            54               1              54            99.9           5,395              45         242,775
    (Annual)............................              54               1              54               8             432              45          19,440
    (Reconciliation)....................
HRSA-99-2 (IME).........................              54               1              54              14             756              45          34,020
HRSA-99-4 Required GPRA Tables..........              54               1              54              28           1,512              45          68,040
    Total...............................              54  ..............              54  ..............           8,095                         364,275
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    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., NW., New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: October 31, 2000.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 00-28449 Filed 11-06-00; 8:45 am]
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