Notice2022-22868
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures
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October 21, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA has 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64066-64067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22868]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
[OMB No. 0906-xxxx-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Optimizing Virtual Care
Grant Program Performance Measures
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA has 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 November
21, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 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 Samantha Miller, the acting
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3747564752454058455c775f45445619505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c2b2a3b2a7b0b5adb0a982aab0b1a3eca5adb4">[email protected]</span></a> or
call (301) 443-9094.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Optimizing Virtual Care Grant
Program Performance Measures OMB No. 0915-xxxx-NEW
Abstract: The Health Center Program and supplemental awards for
health centers are authorized by Section 330 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b). Notably, HRSA is authorized to make
supplemental awards for health centers to ``implement evidence-based
models for increasing access to high-quality primary care services,
which may include models related to expanding the use of telehealth and
technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building
models.'' 42 U.S.C. 254b(d)(1)(E). Under the Optimizing Virtual Care
(OVC) grant program, 29 high-performing health centers received 2-year
supplemental awards to increase health care access and quality for
underserved populations through virtual care such as telehealth, remote
patient monitoring, digital patient tools, and health information
technology platforms. Specifically, award recipients will use OVC
funding to develop and implement innovative evidence-based strategies
with the potential to be adapted, leveraged, and scaled across the
Health Center Program to increase access to care and improve clinical
quality by optimizing the use of virtual care with a specific focus on
underserved communities and vulnerable populations.
The goal of the OVC grant program is to continue to support
innovation that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, when health centers
quickly expanded their use of virtual care to maintain access to
essential primary care services for underserved communities. HRSA-
funded health centers serve special and vulnerable populations facing
barriers to virtual care access, such as low digital literacy, low
connectivity capabilities, or limited technology access. The OVC grant
recipients will serve as a model for how to increase equitable virtual
care, generating and refining strategies that can be adapted and scaled
across the Health Center Program.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register, 87 FR 37874-
37875 (June 24, 2022). HRSA received
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comments from OVC grant recipients during this public comment period.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The information collected
on OVC grant recipient activities and performance will help HRSA
demonstrate, adapt, assess, and disseminate promising practices,
strategies, and novel models of virtual care across the nation's health
centers. The information will support an assessment that yields:
<bullet> Increased evidence of how to optimize the use of virtual
care in the Health Center Program to enhance access to care and improve
clinical quality for underserved communities and special and vulnerable
populations.
<bullet> Maximized impact of the new OVC grant program, as a model
to be adapted, leveraged, and scaled across other HRSA funding
opportunities.
<bullet> Enhanced evidence base for recommendations to promote and
scale virtual care innovations focused on increasing health equity
specific to Health Center Program patients.
The assessment will include descriptive analyses of the data on
grant recipient activities and performance, including analyses of
trends over time. The analyses will inform recommendations for
performance measures that HRSA could scale across the Health Center
Program and across other grant programs like the OVC grant program.
The grant recipient activities related to implementation of novel
models of virtual care, including aggregate data on patients served and
the services they received, will be captured via monthly progress
reports. A set of health center performance measures will be captured
in a bi-annual progress report and will provide insight into health
equity and virtual care. Grant recipients will collect and report
performance measures based on project goals and objectives that span
four key population health and clinical domain areas, including (1)
Increased Access to Care and Information; (2) Improve Clinical Quality
and Health Outcomes; (3) Enhance Patient Care Coordination; and (4)
Promote Health Equity.
Based on comments from OVC grant recipients, the average hours of
burden per response for the biannual progress report has increased to
55.9 hours from 48 hours as proposed in the 60-day Federal Register
Notice. This new burden estimate accounts for the fact that performance
measures in the biannual progress report have different levels of
burden per response. For example, some measures required significant
workflow changes or had more complexity. In addition, both the biannual
and monthly progress reports were revised to include updated terms and
definitions based on feedback collected from OVC grant recipients
during the public comment period.
Likely Respondents: Respondents will be the 29 health centers that
received supplemental awards through the OVC grant program.
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.
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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OVC Grant Monthly Progress 29 12 348 2.0 696.0
Report.........................
OVC Grant Bi-Annual Progress 29 2 58 55.9 3,242.2
Report.........................
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Total....................... 29 .............. 406 .............. 3,938.2
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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. 2022-22868 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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