[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 361-362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-28586]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Health 
Center Patient Survey, OMB No. 0915-0368--Extension

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the 
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the 
ICR.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than March 6, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Samantha Miller, 
the acting HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at 301-594-
4394.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Health Center Patient Survey.
    OMB No.: 0915-0368--Extension.
    Abstract: The Health Center Program, administered by HRSA, is 
authorized under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. Health 
centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that 
deliver affordable, accessible, quality, and cost-effective primary 
health care services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. 
Nearly 1,400 health centers operate over 14,000 service delivery sites 
that provide primary health care to more than 30 million people 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 
supported 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 supported health centers. The renewal 
of the HCPS will utilize the same modules from the 2022 HCPS (OMB 
#0915-0368). There is no change to the current survey instruments. 
Survey results come from in-person, one-on-one interviews with patients 
who are selected as representative of the Health Center Program patient 
population nationally.
    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 supported 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.
    Likely Respondents: Staff and 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. Compared to the previous HCPS, the estimated 
burden hours for an individual respondent remains the same in this 
renewal. The total annual burden hours and number of survey respondents 
is anticipated to remain the same for the survey instruments in this 
renewal. The total annual burden hours estimated for this ICR are 
summarized in the table below.

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                                     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             .17        2,230.40
Patient Screening: Short Blessed              18               1              18             .05            0.90
 Scale \1\......................
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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\1\ The Short Blessed Scale Form will be administered to respondents when a field interviewer believes that a
  person might be too cognitively impaired to participate in the survey. According to 2022 survey experience,
  only 3 eligible participants in the main survey were screened with this form.

    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2022-28586 Filed 1-3-23; 8:45 am]
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