[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 231 (Monday, December 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65988-65989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-26027]


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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; Health Center Patient 
Survey, OMB No. 0915-0368--Reinstatement

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments

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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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 
30-day comment period for this notice has closed.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than January 2, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR 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 Lisa Wright-Solomon, the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or 
call (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request Title: Health 
Center Patient Survey OMB No. 0915-0368--Reinstatement.
    Abstract: HRSA supported health centers (those entities funded 
under section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act) deliver 
comprehensive, affordable, quality primary health care to over 28 
million patients nationwide, regardless of their ability to pay. Nearly 
1,400 health centers operate approximately 12,000 service delivery 
sites in every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the 
U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin. In the past, HRSA has 
conducted the Health Center Patient Survey (HCPS), which surveys 
patients of HRSA-funded health centers. The HCPS collects information 
about sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, health 
behaviors, access to and utilization of health care services, and 
satisfaction with health care received at HRSA-funded health centers. 
The reinstatement of the HCPS will utilize the same modules from the 
2014 HCPS (OMB #0915-0368). Overarching changes will streamline the 
questionnaire to minimize burden, standardize questions with other 
national surveys to enable comparative analyses with particular focus 
on HHS and HRSA priority areas (e.g., mental health and substance use). 
Survey results come from in-person, one-on-one interviews with patients 
who are selected as nationally representative of the Health Center 
Program patient population.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on July 24, 
2019, vol. 84, No. 142; pp. 35683-84. There were two public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The HCPS is unique 
because it focuses on comprehensive, nationally representative, 
individual level data from the perspective of health center patients. 
By investigating how well HRSA-funded health centers meet health care 
needs of the medically underserved and how patients perceive their 
quality of care, the HCPS serves as an empirically based resource to 
inform HRSA policy, funding, and planning decisions.
    HRSA updated this Notice to reflect the following changes since the 
publication of the 60-day Notice. The number of estimated respondents 
changed from 9,058 to 9,000. This change came about because of the 
separation of the cognitive testing package from the national survey 
package. Based on completing the cognitive testing, the estimated 
overall burden on survey respondents dropped from 1.25 hours to 1.00 
hour. HRSA discontinued use of the term ``Grantee'' when referring to 
recipients of HRSA funding; therefore, in its place in the burden table 
below, the term ``Grantee Recruitment'' has been changed to ``Awardee 
Recruitment.'' HRSA added a Short Blessed Scale to account for the 
patient's time if they are screened for impairment before or during the 
survey administration. HRSA utilized The Short Blessed Scale for 0.2 
percent of respondents in the 2014 HCPS.
    Likely Respondents: Patients at HRSA-supported health centers.
    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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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Awardee Recruitment.............             220               1             220            2.00          440.00
Site Recruitment and Training...             700               1             700            3.15        2,205.00
Patient Screening...............          13,120               1          13,120            0.17        2,230.40
Patient Screening: Short Blessed              18               1              18            0.05            0.90
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Patient Survey..................           9,000               1           9,000            1.00        9,000.00
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    Total National Study........          23,058  ..............          23,058  ..............       13,876.30
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2019-26027 Filed 11-29-19; 8:45 am]
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