[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 148 (Thursday, August 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46592-46593]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-18492]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    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 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 the: (1) 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 changes in curricula, training 
experiences, and types of training programs, and benefits that have 
resulted from such changes and changes for purposes of training 
residents in the measurement and improvement of the quality and safety 
of patient care; (5) and the numbers of residents (disaggregated by 
specialty and subspecialty) who completed training in 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.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The CHGME Payment Program 
statute Public Law 109-307 requires that CHGME-participating hospitals 
continue to provide information about their residency training programs 
in an annual report to HRSA that must address statutory reporting 
requirements including types of training, number of training positions, 
types of training to care for underserved children, changes in 
residency training, and practice location of graduates.
    Likely Respondents: CHGME Payment Program participating children's 
hospitals.
    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 ICR 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-               54               1              54            10.4           561.6
 1).............................
Annual Report: Hospital and                   54               1              54            74.0          3996.0
 Program Level Information (HRSA
 100-2 and 100-3)...............
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    Total.......................              54  ..............              54            84.4          4557.6
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    Dated: July 26, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-18492 Filed 7-31-13; 8:45 am]
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