[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23531-23532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10084]
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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; Behavioral Health
Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Outcome Measures
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. 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 July 3,
2025.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samanth Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request Title:
Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program
Outcome Measures.
OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New
Abstract: This ICR is for OMB approval of a new information
collection, the Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth
Network Program (BHI EB-TNP) Outcome Measures. Under the BHI EB-TNP,
HRSA administers cooperative agreements in accordance with section
330I(d)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-14(d)(1)).
The purpose of this program is to integrate behavioral health services
into primary care settings using telehealth technology through
telehealth networks and evaluate the effectiveness of such integration.
This program supports evidence-based projects that use telehealth
technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas
to: (1) improve access to integrated behavioral health services in
primary care settings, and (2) expand and improve the quality of health
information available to health care providers by evaluating the
effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into
primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can
assist health care providers.
HRSA created a set of outcome measures that focus on behavioral
health to evaluate the effectiveness of grantees' services programs and
monitor their progress using performance reporting data. The estimated
burden for the BHI EB-TNP Outcome Measurement Report is based on an
annual data collection frequency.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on October
28, 2024, 89 FR 85545-46. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA's goals for the
program are to improve access to needed services, reduce rural
practitioner isolation, improve health system productivity and
efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. HRSA worked with program
grantees to develop outcome measures to evaluate and monitor the
progress of the grantees in each of these categories, with specific
indicators to be reported annually through a performance monitoring
data collection platform/website. The measures will enable HRSA to
capture data that illustrate the impact and scope of federal funding
along with assessing these efforts. The measures are intended to inform
HRSA's progress toward meeting program goals, specifically improving
access to telebehavioral health services that support primary care
providers. The measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to
the HRSA Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, including clinical
specialties, access to health care, total encounters, and patient
travel miles saved.
Likely Respondents: The likely respondents are BHI EB-TNP 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
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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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BHI EB-TNP Outcome Measurement 27 1 27 5 135
Report........................
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Total...................... 27 ............... 27 .............. 135
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2025-10084 Filed 6-2-25; 8:45 am]
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