[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 21 (Monday, February 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5561-5562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01882]


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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 no later than March 4, 
2015.

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: Evaluation and Initial 
Assessment of the HRSA Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical 
Education Program.
    OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New.
    Abstract: Section 5508 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 amended 
section 340H of the Public Health Service Act to establish the Teaching 
Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program to provide 
funding support for new and

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the expansion of existing primary care residency training programs in 
community-based settings. The primary goals of this program are to 
increase the production of primary care providers who are better 
prepared to practice in community settings, particularly with 
underserved populations, and improve the geographic distribution of 
primary care providers.
    Statute requires the Secretary to determine an appropriate THCGME 
program payment for indirect medical expenses (IME) as well as to 
update, as deemed appropriate, the per resident amount used to 
determine the Program's payment for direct medical expenses (DME). To 
inform these determinations and to increase understanding of this model 
of residency training, the George Washington University (GW) is 
conducting an evaluation of the costs associated with training 
residents in the Teaching Health Center (THC) model. GW has developed a 
standardized costing instrument to gather data from all THCGME 
programs. The information gathered in the standardized costing 
instrument includes, but is not limited to, resident and faculty full-
time equivalents, salaries and benefits, residency administration 
costs, educational costs, residency clinical operations and 
administrative costs, and patient visits and clinical revenue generated 
by medical residents.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA is collecting 
costing information related to both DME and IME in an effort to 
establish a THC's total cost of running a residency program, to assist 
the Secretary in determining an appropriate update to the per resident 
amount used to calculate the payment for DME and an appropriate IME 
payment. The described data collection activities will serve to inform 
these statutory requirements for the Secretary in a uniform and 
consistent manner.
    Likely Respondents: THCGME grantees.
    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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Teaching Health Center Costing                60               1              60              10             600
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    Total.......................              60               1              60              10             600
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Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2015-01882 Filed 1-30-15; 8:45 am]
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