[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 57470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25092]


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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, Pub. L. 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) The proposed collection of information 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency; (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 Hospitals Graduate Medical Education 
Payment Program (CHGME PP) (OMB No. 0915-0247): Revision

    The CHGME PP was enacted by Public Law 106-129 to provide Federal 
support for graduate medical education (GME) to freestanding children's 
hospitals. This legislation attempts to provide support for GME 
comparable to the level of Medicare GME support received by other, non-
children's hospitals. The legislation indicates that eligible 
children's hospitals will receive payments for both direct and indirect 
medical education. Direct payments are designed to offset the expenses 
associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training 
programs and indirect payments are designed to compensate hospitals for 
expenses associated with the treatment of more severely ill patients 
and the additional costs relating to teaching residents in such 
programs.
    Technical assistance workshops and consultation with applicant 
hospitals resulted in an opportunity for hospital representatives to 
raise issues and provide suggestions resulting in proposed revisions in 
the CHGME application forms and instructions.
    Data is collected on the number of full-time equivalent residents 
in applicant children's hospitals' training programs to determine the 
amount of direct and indirect medical education payments to be 
distributed to participating children's hospitals. Indirect medical 
education payments will also be derived from a formula that requires 
the reporting of discharges, beds, and case mix index information from 
participating children's hospitals. Hospitals will be requested to 
submit such information in an annual application. Hospitals will also 
be requested to submit data on the number of full-time equivalent 
residents a second time during the Federal fiscal year to participate 
in the reconciliation payment process.
    The estimated average annual reporting for this data collection is 
approximately 150 hours per hospital. The estimated annual burden is as 
follows:

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                                                           Responses
                   Form                      Number of        per      Total number    Hours per    Total burden
                                            respondents   respondent   of responses     response        hours
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HRSA 99-1................................            54             1            54           99.9         5,395
HRSA 99-1 (Reconciliation of FTE counts).            54             1            54            8             432
HRSA 99-2................................            54             1            54           14             756
HRSA 99-4................................            54             1            54           28           1,512
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    Total................................            54  ............            54  .............         8,095
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 16C-17, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: September 29, 2003.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 03-25092 Filed 10-2-03; 8:45 am]
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