[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8285-8286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02673]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Community Living


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Public Comment Request; Office of Healthcare Information and 
Counseling (OHIC) Profiles at ACL OMB# 0985-New

AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living is announcing that the 
proposed collection of information listed above has been submitted to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance as 
required under section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995. This 30-day notice collects comments on the information 
collection requirements related to the Office of Healthcare Information 
and Counseling (OHIC) Profiles project at ACL.

DATES: Comments on the collection of information must be submitted 
electronically by 11:59 p.m. (EST) or postmarked by March 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection within 30 days of publication of this notice to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain Find the information collection by 
selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' 
or by using the search function. By mail to the Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, New Executive Office Bldg., 725 17th St. 
NW, Rm. 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for ACL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristen Robinson, 
[email protected] 202-795-7428.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, ACL has 
submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for 
review and clearance. The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is 
currently engaged in an effort to streamline and standardize grantee 
profiles across three programs managed by the Office of Healthcare 
Information and Counseling (OHIC): the State Health Insurance 
Assistance Program (SHIP), Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP), and Medicare 
Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA). Grantees in each 
program must adhere to a specific set of reporting requirements and 
associated reporting schedules outlined in their Program Reporting 
Guidelines. While

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reporting requirements are effective in ensuring grantees data, there 
is no consistency or uniformity in how individual grantees submit their 
data.
    For example, SHIP profiles currently exist; these profiles are 
accessible to the SHIP grantee network via the program's technical 
assistance center, and they can be updated directly by grantee states. 
SMP and MIPPA profiles have yet to be developed. The goal of this data 
collection effort is to obtain consistent data elements for the three 
programs that will allow ACL to reimagine the existing profiles into a 
comparable set of data elements across programs.
    These data will allow RTI International, a contractor to ACL, to 
develop an updated set of grantee profiles that are accessible, 
visually appealing, and consistent across programs. Specifically, the 
purpose of this data collection effort is to update the SHIP grantee 
profiles, which were last updated in 2016, and develop similar profiles 
for SMP and MIPPA. These profiles will be internal to ACL and will only 
be shared with grantees.
    A web-based questionnaire will be emailed to all 125 grant managers 
(representing 54 states and territories) electronically via Smartsheet. 
The collected data will be imported into a dataset and will be used to 
create program profiles accessible to ACL and grantees.

Comments in Response to the 60-Day Federal Register Notice

    A notice published in the Federal Register 87 FR 65068-65069 on 
October 27, 2022. Zero public comments were received during the 60-day 
FRN. ACL's responses to these comments are included below.

Estimated Program Burden

    ACL estimates the burden of this collection of information as 
follows:
    A maximum of 125 grantees are expected to respond to the web-based 
data collection instrument. The approximate burden for pre-data 
collection preparation is 30 minutes per respondent and approximate 
burden for form completion is 20 minutes per respondent for a total 
annual estimate of 103.75 hours. The estimated completion burden 
includes time to review the instructions, read the questions and 
complete and responses.

                                                 IC Burden Chart
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                                                     Number of     Responses per     Hours per     Annual burden
       Respondent/data collection activity          respondents     respondent       response          hours
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Pre-data collection preparation.................             125               1             0.5            62.5
Web-based data collection.......................             125               1            0.33           41.25
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    Total.......................................             125               1            0.83          103.75
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    Dated: February 3, 2023.
Alison Barkoff,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2023-02673 Filed 2-7-23; 8:45 am]
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