[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 28, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31946-31947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12557]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks 
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any 
other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn 
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Children's Hospital Graduate 
Medical Education Payment Program (CHGME PP) Annual Report OMB No. 
0915-0313--Extension
    Abstract: The CHGME Payment Program was enacted by Public Law 106-
129 to provide Federal support for

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graduate medical education (GME) to freestanding children's hospitals, 
similar to 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.
    The CHGME Payment Program statute Public Law 109-307 requires that 
CHGME-participating hospitals provide information about their residency 
training programs in an annual report to HRSA that will be an addendum 
to the hospitals' annual applications for funds. Data are required to 
be collected on (1) the types of training programs that the hospital 
provided for residents such as general pediatrics, internal medicine/
pediatrics, and pediatric subspecialties including both medical 
subspecialties certified and non-medical subspecialties; (2) the number 
of training positions for residents, the number of such positions 
recruited to fill, and the number of positions filled; (3) the types of 
training that the hospital provided for residents related to the health 
care needs of different populations such as children who are 
underserved for reasons of family income or geographic location, 
including rural and urban areas; (4) changes in residency training 
including: (i) Changes in curricula, training experiences, and types of 
training programs, and benefits that have resulted from such changes, 
and (ii) changes for purposes of training residents in the measurement 
and improvement of the quality and safety of patient care; and (5) the 
numbers of residents (disaggregated by specialty and subspecialty) who 
completed their training at the end of the academic year and care for 
children within the borders of the service area of the hospital or 
within the borders of the State in which the hospital is located.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
    Total Estimated Annualized burden hours:

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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden  per    Total burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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Screening Instrument (HRSA 100-               56               1              56             9.2           515.2
 1).............................
Annual Report: Hospital and                   56               1              56            78.7         4,407.2
 Program-Level Information (HRSA
 100-2 and 3)...................
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    Total.......................              56  ..............  ..............  ..............         4,922.4
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    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

    Dated: May 21, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-12557 Filed 5-24-13; 8:45 am]
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