Notice2022-23574
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; The National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Programs
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Published
October 31, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 209 (Monday, October 31, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65598-65600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23574]
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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; The National Health
Service Corps Loan Repayment Programs
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received
no later than December 30, 2022.
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#91e1f0e1f4e3e6fee3fad1f9e3e2f0bff6fee7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="087869786d7a7f677a6348607a7b69266f677e">[email protected]</span></a> or mail them to
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#512130213423263e233a11392322307f363e27"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b3c3d2c3d6c1c4dcc1d8f3dbc1c0d29dd4dcc5">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the acting HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-
9094.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: The National Health Service
Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) OMB No. 0915-0127--Revision.
Abstract: The NHSC LRP was established to assure an adequate supply
of trained primary care health professionals to provide services in the
neediest Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of the United
States. The NHSC Substance Use Disorder Workforce LRP and the NHSC
Rural Community LRP were established to recruit and retain a health
professional workforce with specific training and credentials to
provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in HPSAs. Under
these programs, the Department of Health and Human Services agrees to
repay the qualifying educational loans of selected primary care health
professionals. In return, the health professionals agree to serve for a
specified period of time in an NHSC-approved site located in a
federally-designated HPSA approved by the Secretary for LRP
participants.
The forms utilized by each LRP include the following: (1) the NHSC
LRP Application, (2) the Authorization for Disclosure of Loan
Information form, (3) the Privacy Act Release Authorization form, and
if applicable, (4) the Verification of Disadvantaged Background form,
and (5) the Private Practice Option form. The first four of the NHSC
LRP forms collect information that is needed for selecting participants
and repaying qualifying educational loans. The last referenced form,
the Private Practice Option Form, is needed to collect information for
all participants who have applied for that service option.
NHSC-approved sites are health care facilities that provide
comprehensive outpatient, ambulatory, primary health care services to
populations residing in HPSAs. Related in-patient services may be
provided by NHSC-approved Critical Access Hospitals and Indian Health
Service hospitals. In order to become an NHSC-approved site, new sites
must submit a Site Application for review and approval. Existing NHSC-
approved sites are required to complete a Site Recertification
Application every 3 years in order to maintain their NHSC-approved
status. Both the NHSC Site Application and Site Recertification
Application request information on the clinical service site,
sponsoring agency, recruitment contact, staffing levels, service users,
charges for services, employment policies, and fiscal management
capabilities. Assistance in completing these applications may be
obtained through the appropriate State Primary Care Offices and the
NHSC. The information collected on the applications is used for
determining the eligibility of sites for the assignment of NHSC health
professionals and to verify the need for NHSC clinicians. NHSC service
site approval is valid for 3 years.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The need and purpose of
this information collection is to assess an LRP applicant's eligibility
and qualifications for the LRP, and to obtain information for NHSC site
applicants. The NHSC LRP application asks for personal, professional,
and financial/loan information.
The proposed revisions in this ICR include asking applicants to
provide their educational information on the completion of post
graduate training. The NHSC will use this information to identify
graduates or completers of the following HRSA-funded programs: the
Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Training Primary Care Champions
Program, the Addiction Medicine Fellowship, the Teaching Health Center
Graduate Medical Education Program, the Advanced Nursing Education
Nurse Practitioner Residency Program, or the Advanced Nursing Education
Nurse Practitioner Residency Integration Program. To identify the
graduates or completers of these HRSA-funded programs, the NHSC will
require applicants to respond to the following additional questions:
(1) Have you completed a post graduate training?
(2) Applicants who selected ``yes'' to the question above are
required to submit the National Practitioner Identifier number.
(3) Further, if applicable, applicants are asked to enter the
residency identification number and their residency completion
certificate, if available.
NHSC policy requires behavioral health providers to practice in a
community-based setting that provides access to comprehensive
behavioral health services. Accordingly, for those sites seeking to be
assigned behavioral health NHSC participants, additional site
information will be collected from an NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral
Health Services Checklist. NHSC sites that do not directly offer all
required behavioral health services must demonstrate a formal
affiliation with a comprehensive, community-based primary behavioral
health setting or facility to provide these services.
Likely Respondents: Likely respondents include: (1) Licensed
primary care medical, dental, and mental and behavioral health
providers who are employed or seeking employment, and are interested in
serving underserved populations; (2) health care facilities interested
in participating in the NHSC and becoming an NHSC-approved service
site; and (3) NHSC sites providing behavioral health care services
directly, or through a formal affiliation with a comprehensive
community-based primary behavioral health setting or facility providing
comprehensive behavioral health services.
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 Information Collection Request 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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NHSC LRP Application............ 9,020 1 9,020 1.00 9,020
Authorization for Disclosure of 7,150 1 7,150 .10 715
Loan Information Form..........
Privacy Act Release 303 1 303 .10 30.0
Authorization Form.............
Verification of Disadvantaged 660 1 660 .50 330
Background Form................
Private Practice Option Form.... 330 1 330 .10 33
NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral 4,400 1 4,400 .13 572
Health Services Checklist......
NHSC Site Application (including 4,070 1 4,070 .50 2,035
recertification)...............
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Total....................... 25,933 .............. 25,933 .............. 12,735
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2022-23574 Filed 10-28-22; 8:45 am]
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