[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 144 (Friday, July 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48921-48922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19059]
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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: National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse
Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners:
Regulations and Forms (OMB No. 0915-0126)--Revision
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) was established through
Title IV of Pub. L. 99-660, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of
1986, as amended. Final regulations governing the NPDB are codified at
45 CFR part 60. Responsibility for NPDB
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implementation and operation resides in the Bureau of Health
Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NPDB began
operation on September 1, 1990.
The intent of Title IV of Pub. L. 99-660 is to improve the quality
of health care by encouraging hospitals, State licensing boards,
professional societies, and other entities providing health care
services, to identify and discipline those who engage in unprofessional
behavior; and to restrict the ability of incompetent physicians,
dentists, and other health care practitioners to move from State to
State without disclosure of practitioner previous damaging or
incompetent performance.
The NPDB acts primarily as a flagging system; its principal purpose
is to facilitate comprehensive review of practitioners' professional
credentials and background. Information on medical malpractice
payments, adverse licensure actions, adverse clinical privileging
actions, adverse professional society actions, and Medicare/Medicaid
exclusions is collected from, and disseminated to, eligible entities.
It is intended that NPDB information should be considered with other
relevant information in evaluating a practitioner's credentials.
This request is for a revision of reporting and querying forms
previously approved on April 30, 1999. The reporting forms and the
request for information forms (query forms) must be accessed,
completed, and submitted to the NPDB electronically through the NPDB
Web site at http://www.npdb-hipdb.com. All reporting and querying is
performed through this secure website. Due to overlap in requirements
for the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB), some of
the NPDB's burden has been subsumed under the HIPDB.
Estimates of burden are as follows:
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Hours per
Regulation citation Number of Responses per responses (in Total burden
respondents respondent minutes) hours
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60.6(a), Errors & Omissions..................... 400 4.625 15 462.5
60.6(b), Revisions to Actions................... 100 1.5 30 75
60.7(b), Medical Malpractice Payment Report..... 660 28.03 45 13,875
60.8(b), Adverse Action Reports--State Boards... \1\ 0 0 0 0
60.9(a)3, Adverse Action Clinical Privileges & 1,000 1.2 45 900
Professional Society...........................
Requests for Hearings by Entities............... 1 1 480 8
60.10(a)(1), Queries by Hospital-Practitioner 6,000 240,000 5 20,000
Applications...................................
60.10(a)(2), (Queries by Hospitals-Two Yr. Cycle 6,000 960,000 5 80,000
60.11(a)(1), Disclosure to Hospitals............ \2\ 0 0 0 0
60.11(a)(2), Disclosure to Practitioners (Self \3\ 0 0 0 0
Query).........................................
60.11(a)(3), Disclosure to Licensure Boards..... 125 15,000 5 1,250
60.11(a)(4), Queries by Non-Hospital Health Care 4,000 2,200,000 5 183,333
Entities.......................................
60.11(a)(5), Queries by Plaintiffs' Attorneys... 5 5 30 2.5
60.11(a)(6), Queries by Non-Hospital Health Care \4\ 0 0 0 0
Entities-Peer Review...........................
60.11(a)(7), Requests by Researchers for 100 100 30 50
Aggregated Data................................
60.14(b), Practitioner Places a Report in 1,000 1,000 15 250
Disputed Status................................
60.14(b), Practitioner Statement................ 2,325 2,325 60 2,325
60.14(b), Practitioner Requests for Secretarial 110 110 480 880
Review.........................................
60.3, Entity Registration-Initial............... 500 500 60 500
60.3, Entity Registration-Update................ 1,000 1,000 5 83
60.11(a), Authorized Agent Designation-Initial.. 500 500 15 125
60.11(a), Authorized Agent-Update............... 50 50 5 4.17
60.12(c), Account Discrepancy Report............ 300 300 5 75
60.12(c), Electronic Funds Transfer 400 400 15 100
Authorization..................................
60.3, Entity Reactivation....................... 100 100 60 100
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 304,398
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\1\ Included in estimate for reporting adverse licensure actions to the HIPDB in 45 CFR part 61.
\2\ Included in estimates for 60.10(a)(1).
\3\ Included in estimate for self queries to the HIPDB in 45 CFR part 61.
\4\ Included in estimate for hospital queries under 60.11(a)(4).
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, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503.
Dated: July 23, 2002.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 02-19059 Filed 7-25-02; 8:45 am]
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