[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16452-16453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05482]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

[OMB No. 0915-0368--Extension]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Health Center Patient 
Survey

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
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.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 17, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or by mail to the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 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: HRSA-supported health centers (those entities funded 
under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act) deliver 
comprehensive, affordable, quality primary health care to over 30 
million patients nationwide, regardless of their ability to pay. Nearly 
1,400 health centers operate over 14,000 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 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 renewal of 
the HCPS will use 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.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on January 4, 
2023, vol. 88, No. 2; pp. 361-362. There were no 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.
    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. 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 three eligible participants in the main survey were screened with this form.


Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
 [FR Doc. 2023-05482 Filed 3-16-23; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P