[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 103 (Friday, May 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30948-30949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13209]


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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 (OMB), 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, e-mail 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at (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: Reconciliation Tool for the Teaching Health Center 
Graduate Medical Education Program--[NEW]

    The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) 
program, Section 340H of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, was 
established by Section 5508 of Public Law 111-148. The program supports 
training for primary care residents (including residents in family 
medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, 
obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric 
dentistry, and geriatrics) in community-based ambulatory patient care 
settings. The statute provides that eligible teaching health centers 
receive payments for both direct and indirect costs associated with 
training residents in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. 
Direct payments are designed to compensate eligible teaching health 
centers for those expenses directly associated with resident training, 
while indirect payments are intended to compensate for the additional 
costs of training residents in such programs. Payments are made at the 
beginning of the funding cycle; however, the statute provides for a 
reconciliation process, through which overpayments may be recouped and 
underpayments may be adjusted at the end of the fiscal year. This data

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collection instrument will gather information relating to the numbers 
of residents in THCGME training programs in order to reconcile payments 
for both direct and indirect costs.

The Annual Estimate of Burden

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                                                     Number of
         Instrument name             Number of     responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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THC Reconciliation Tool.........              51               1              51               5             255
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    Total.......................              51  ..............              51               5             255
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``Attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: May 23, 2011.
Jennifer Riggle,
Deputy Director, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2011-13209 Filed 5-26-11; 8:45 am]
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