[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70279-70280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-31049]


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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 at (301) 443-1129.

Proposed Project: Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education 
Payment Program (CHGME PP) (OMB No. 0915-0247)--Revision

    The CHGME PP was enacted by Pub. L. 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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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number      Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents     respondent     of responses      response          hours
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HRSA 99-1 (Initial).............              60               1              60              24           1,440
HRSA 99-1 (Reconciliation)......              60               1              60               8             480
HRSA 99-2 (Initial).............              60               1              60              14             840
HRSA 99-2 (Reconciliation)......              60               1              60               4             240

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HRSA 99-4 (Reconciliation)......              60               1              60              14             840
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    Total.......................              60  ..............              60  ..............           3,840
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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, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: December 10, 2003.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 03-31049 Filed 12-16-03; 8:45 am]
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