[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 90 (Friday, May 8, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27419-27420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09906]


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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; Information Collection 
Request Title: The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education 
Program Reconciliation Tool, OMB No. 0915-0342--Extension

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with of 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 
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 June 8, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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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: The Teaching Health Center 
Graduate Medical Education Program Reconciliation Tool OMB No. 0915-
0342--Extension.
    Abstract: The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education 
(THCGME) program, authorized by Section 340H of the Public Health 
Service Act, was established by Section 5508 of Public Law (Pub. L.) 
111-148. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-123) provided 
continued funding for the THCGME Program for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 
and the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and the 
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act extends 
funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 for the first two months of FY 2021 
(until November 30, 2020).
    THCGME program awards payment for both direct and indirect expenses 
to support training for primary care residents in community-based 
ambulatory patient care settings. Direct medical expense payments are 
designed to compensate eligible teaching health centers for those 
expenses directly associated with resident training, while indirect 
medical expense payments are intended to compensate for the additional 
costs of training residents in such programs.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on January 22, 
2020, Vol. 85, No. 14; pp. 3696-97. There were no public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: THCGME program payments 
are prospective payments, and the statute provides for a reconciliation 
process, through which overpayments may be recouped and underpayments 
may be adjusted at the end of the fiscal year. This data collection 
instrument will gather information relating to the number of resident 
full-time equivalents in Teaching Health Center training programs in 
order to reconcile payments for both direct and indirect expenses.
    Likely Respondents: The likely responders to the THCGME 
Reconciliation Tool are THCGME program award recipients.
    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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THCGME Reconciliation Tool......              58               1              58               2             116
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    Total.......................              58  ..............              58  ..............             116
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2020-09906 Filed 5-7-20; 8:45 am]
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