[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 71 (Thursday, April 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25636-25637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07630]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Notice of Availability of Draft Health Center Program Policy 
Guidance Regarding Services To Support Transitions in Care for Justice-
Involved Individuals Reentering the Community

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

ACTION: Request for public comment on draft Health Center Program 
policy guidance regarding services to support transitions in care for 
Justice-involved individuals reentering the community.

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SUMMARY: HRSA is inviting public comment on the draft Health Center 
Program Policy Guidance Regarding Services to Support Transitions in 
Care for Justice-Involved Individuals Reentering the Community. The 
purpose of the draft Policy Information Notice (PIN) is to propose 
Health Center Program policy guidance for all health centers that apply 
for and receive federal award funds under the Health Center Program, as 
authorized by section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act 
(including sections 330(e), (g), (h), and (i)), as well as section 330 
subrecipient organizations and Health Center Program look-alikes, to 
clarify the conditions under which they may provide certain health 
services as part of the Health Center Program scope of project to 
certain incarcerated/detained individuals. This draft PIN establishes 
policy guidance that identifies a set of health services that a health 
center may provide, the locations at which such services may be 
provided, the target population for such services (specifically, 
incarcerated/detained individuals who are scheduled for release from a 
carceral setting within 90 days), and other pertinent circumstances 
under which the health center may, on its own behalf and subject to all 
section 330 requirements, provide such services to justice-involved 
individuals reentering the community to support their care transition 
from the carceral setting to the community within the scope of their 
Health Center Program project.

DATES: Submit comments on or before June 14, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Electronic comments should be submitted through the HRSA 
Bureau of Primary Health Care Contact Form (https://hrsa.my.site.com/support/s/), ``Comment on Draft Policy'' under the ``Policy'' section. 
Comments should be submitted no later than 60 days after the 
publication date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Joseph, Office of Policy and 
Program Development Director, HRSA, at [email protected] and 301-594-
4300.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HRSA provides grants to eligible applicants 
under section 330 of the PHS Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 254b), to 
support the delivery of preventive and primary

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care services to the nation's underserved individuals and families. 
HRSA also certifies eligible applicants under the Health Center Look-
Alike Program (see sections 1861(aa)(4)(B) and 1905(l)(2)(B) of the 
Social Security Act). Look-alikes do not receive Health Center Program 
funding but must meet the Health Center Program statutory and 
regulatory requirements. Nearly 1,400 Health Center Program-funded 
health centers and more than 100 Health Center Program look-alike 
organizations operate more than 15,000 service delivery sites that 
provide care to more than 30.5 million patients in every U.S. state, 
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the 
Pacific Basin. Note that for the purposes of this document, the term 
``health center'' refers to entities that receive a federal award under 
section 330 of the PHS Act, as amended, as well as subrecipients and 
organizations designated as look-alikes, unless otherwise stated.

Carole Johnson,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2024-07630 Filed 4-10-24; 8:45 am]
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