[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47854-47855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19665]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Proposed Information Collection Activity: Comment Request

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 
periodically publishes abstracts of information collection submitted 
for review to 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 clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at (301) 
443-1984.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting 
Program Information System: Data Collection Forms (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--
[New]

    On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-148), 
legislation designed to make quality, affordable, health care available 
to all Americans, reduce costs, improve health care quality, enhance 
disease prevention, and strengthen the health care workforce. Through a 
provision authorizing the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, the Act responds to the 
diverse needs of children and families in communities at risk and 
provides an unprecedented opportunity for collaboration and partnership 
at the Federal, State, Tribal, and community levels to improve health 
and development outcomes for at-risk children through evidence-based 
home visiting programs. The MIECHV Program is designed: (1) To 
strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under 
Title V; (2) to improve coordination of services for at-risk 
communities; and (3) to identify and provide comprehensive services to 
improve outcomes for families who reside in at-risk communities. 
Formula-based and competitive grants have been awarded to States, other 
eligible jurisdictions, and, under a legislative provision setting 
aside dedicated funds for a Tribal MIECHV program, to eligible Indian 
Tribes and consortia of Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Urban Indian 
Organizations. Competitive grants to non-profit organizations to 
provide home visiting in certain States are anticipated.
    The Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511 (42 U.S.C. 711), as 
amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, 
requires that MIECHV grantees collect both socio-demographic data and 
data to measure improvements for eligible families in six specified 
areas (referred to as ``benchmark areas'') that encompass the major 
goals for the program. The Supplemental Information Request for the 
Submission of the Updated State Plan for a State Home Visiting Program 
(SIR), published on February 8, 2011, further listed a variety of 
constructs under each benchmark area for which grantees were to select 
and submit relevant performance measures. Per Section 511(d)(1)(B)(i) 
of the legislation, no later than 30 days after the end of the third 
year of the program, grantees are required to

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demonstrate improvement in at least four of the six benchmark areas. 
The SIR and subsequent MIECHV guidance documents for both competitive 
and formula grants also require that grantees report annually on the 
constructs under each benchmark area, as well as on demographic, 
service utilization, budgetary and other administrative data related to 
program implementation.
    The proposed data collection and reporting forms were initially 
developed by an internal MIECHV workgroup in consultation with 
evidence-based home visiting model developers and selected grantees and 
further refined based on comments received during the previous 60-day 
public comment period. The data collected with the proposed forms will 
be used to track grantees' progress in demonstrating improvement under 
each benchmark area and provide an overall picture of the population 
being served. The proposed data collection forms are as follows:

Home Visiting Form 1--Demographic and Service Utilization Data for 
Enrollees and Children

    This form will be utilized by all MIECHV program grantees 
(including Tribal program grantees) and will collect data to determine 
the unduplicated number of participants and of participant groups by 
primary insurance coverage. This form will also request data on the 
demographic characteristics of program participants as well as service 
utilization data.

Home Visiting Form 2--Grantee Performance Measures

    States, the District of Columbia, and territories participating in 
the MIECHV program have already selected relevant performance 
indicators for the legislatively identified benchmark areas. This form 
provides a template for these jurisdictions and non-profit grantees 
implementing home visiting programs to report aggregate data on their 
already selected and approved performance measures.
    While there will be variation in the data collection and reporting 
burden to grantees based on the number of families served and data 
system capabilities, the annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                  Annual  number     Number of                        Average
       Reporting document               of         responses per       Total       burden hours    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses     per response        hours
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HV Form 1: Demographic and                \1\ 81               1              81             731          59,211
 Service Utilization Data for
 Enrollees and Children.........
HV Form 2: Grantee Performance            \2\ 56               1              56             313          17,528
 Measures.......................
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    Total.......................              81  ..............              81  ..............          76,739
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\1\ In addition to 56 jurisdictions and non-profit organizations, it is estimated that up to 25 Tribal MIECHV
  program grantees will utilize Form 1 to report on demographic and service utilization data for all participant
  families.
\2\ Does not include Tribal program grantees.

    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 email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: August 6, 2012.
Wendy Ponton,
Director, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2012-19665 Filed 8-9-12; 8:45 am]
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