[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 134 (Friday, July 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32549-32551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14792]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-0909; Docket No. CDC-2017-0053]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the CDC 
information collection project titled ``CDC Diabetes Prevention 
Recognition Program (DPRP).'' This revision of DPRP Standards and 
Operating Procedures (i.e., DPRP Standards)will allow continued 
collection of nationwide, de-identified data against the implementation 
of the National Diabetes Prevention Programs (National DPPs) using a 
set of evidence-based standards. CDC uses this data to effectively 
manage the DPRP.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 12, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0053 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection 
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton 
Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or 
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. 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.

Proposed Project

    CDC Diabetes Prevention Recognition Program (DPRP) (OMB Control 
Number 0920-0909, exp. 12/31/2017)--Revision--National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT) established and 
administers the National DPP's Diabetes Prevention Recognition Program 
(DPRP), which recognizes organizations that deliver diabetes prevention 
programs according to evidence-based requirements set forth in the 
``Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Recognition Program 
Standards and Operating Procedures'' (DPRP Standards). Additionally, 
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Diabetes 
Prevention Program (MDPP) expansion of CDC's National DPP was announced 
in early 2016, when the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
determined that the Diabetes Prevention Program met the statutory 
criteria for inclusion in Medicare's expanded list of healthcare 
services for beneficiaries (https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/medicare-diabetes-prevention-program/ program/). This is the first time a 
preventive service model from the CMS Innovation (CMMI) Center has been 
expanded. After extensive testing of the DPP model in 17 sites across 
the U.S. in 2014-2016, CMS proposed the MDPP in Sections 1102 and 1871 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh Sec.  424.59), 
authorizing CDC-recognized organizations to prepare for enrollment as 
MDPP suppliers beginning in January 2018 in order to bill CMS for these 
services Only organizations in good standing with the CDC DPRP will be 
eligible as MDPP suppliers.
    CDC requests an additional three-year OMB approval to continue 
collecting the information needed to administer the DPRP and 
information needed by CMS to support the MDPP benefit. Based on 
experience with the DPRP from 2011-2017, and feedback from applicant 
organizations and internal and external partners, CDC plans to revise 
the DPRP Standards and the associated information collection.
    Key changes relate to incorporation of variables needed to ensure 
the seamless implementation of the CMS MDPP benefit. The majority of 
the additional data elements included in the current Standards revision 
are the result of new CMS requirements for MDPP suppliers. In 
particular, CMS is requiring de-identified participant-level data 
submission every 6 months. While data submissions every 6 months are 
included to align with the CMS MDPP supplier requirements, this change 
will also benefit organizations that are not MDPP suppliers, as it will 
allow them to receive more feedback in an effort to make necessary mid-
course corrections and successfully achieve either preliminary or full 
recognition status. Semiannual evaluation of organization performance 
was part of the initial 2011 OMB approval for CDC's DPRP information 
collection.
    One data element has been revised and eleven additional data 
elements have been added in either the one-time application form or 
within the evaluation data elements:

Application Form

(1) Class Type (revised)
(2) Organization Type (new)
(3) Lifestyle Coach Training Entity (new)
(4) CDC Grantee (yes/no) (new)

Evaluation Data Elements

(6) Participant's Education (new)
(7) Delivery Mode (new)
(8) Session ID (new)
(9) Session Type (new)
(10) Lifestyle Coach Medicare National Provider Identification Number 
as Supplied by CMS (new)
(11) Enrollment Source (new)
(12) Payer Type (new)
    Additional changes to the DPRP Standards or DPRP information 
collection may be requested during the period of the Revision request, 
as CDC continues discussions with recognized programs and potential 
applicants and reviews results from ongoing studies.
    During the period of this Revision, CDC estimates receipt of 
approximately 500 DPRP application forms per year. The estimated burden 
per one-time, up-front application response is 1 hours (annualized to 
500 hours one-time across all new organizations). In addition, CDC 
estimates receipt of semi-annual evaluation data submissions from the 
same 500 additional organizations per year; estimated at 2 hours per 
response. The total estimated average annualized evaluation burden to 
respondents is 7,676 hours. This includes an estimate of the time 
needed to extract and compile the required data records and fields from 
an existing electronic database, review the data, create or enter a 
data file in the required format (i.e., CSV file), and submit the data 
file via the National DPP Web site. The estimated burden per response 
is modest since the information requested

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for DPRP recognition is routinely collected by most organizations that 
deliver lifestyle change programs for their own internal evaluation and 
possible insurance reimbursement purposes, including Medicare under the 
forthcoming MDPP benefit. Participation in the DPRP is voluntary, data 
are de-identified, no Personally Identifiable Information is collected 
by CDC, and there are no costs to respondents other than their time. 
CDC seeks to request a three-year approval.

                                                            Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                            Number of       Avg. burden
               Type of respondent                              Form name                   Number of      responses per    per response    Total burden
                                                                                          respondents      respondent       (in hours)      (in hours)
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Public sector organizations that deliver type 2  DPRP Application Form................             150                 1               1             150
 diabetes prevention programs.
                                                 DPRP Evaluation Data.................             350                 2               2           1,400
Private sector organizations that deliver type   DPRP Application Form................             350                 1               1             350
 2 diabetes prevention programs.
                                                 DPRP Evaluation Data.................           1,444                 2               2           5,776
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    Total......................................  .....................................  ..............  ................  ..............           7,676
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2017-14792 Filed 7-13-17; 8:45 am]
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