Notice2024-02242
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program, OMB No. 0915-0387-Extension
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Published
February 5, 2024
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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 89, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7724-7725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02242]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Small
Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program, OMB No. 0915-0387--
Extension
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 ICR should be received no later than April 5,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3747564752454058455c775f45445619505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="86f6e7f6e3f4f1e9f4edc6eef4f5e7a8e1e9f0">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 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#cabaabbaafb8bda5b8a18aa2b8b9abe4ada5bc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="601001100512170f120b20081213014e070f16">[email protected]</span></a> or call Joella Roland, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Small Health Care Provider
Quality Improvement Program, OMB No. 0915-0387--Extension.
Abstract: This program is authorized by the Public Health Service
Act, section 330A(g) (42 U.S.C. 254c(g)). This authority permits the
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) to award Small Health
Care Provider Quality Improvement grants that expand access to,
coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services, and
enhance the delivery of health care, in rural areas. Specifically,
FORHP may award grants to provide for the planning and implementation
of Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement activities, including
activities related to increasing care coordination, enhancing chronic
disease management, and improving patient health outcomes.
The purpose of the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement
Grant Program is to provide support to rural primary care providers for
implementation of quality improvement activities. The goal of the
program is to promote the development of an evidence-based culture and
delivery of coordinated care in the primary care setting. Additional
objectives of the program include improved health outcomes for
patients, enhanced chronic disease management, and better engagement of
patients and their caregivers. Organizations participating in the
program are required to use an evidence-based quality improvement
model, perform tests of change focused on improvement, and use health
information technology (HIT) to collect and report data. HIT may
include an electronic patient registry or an electronic health record
and is a critical component for improving quality and patient outcomes.
With HIT it is possible to generate timely and meaningful data, which
helps providers track and plan care. HRSA collects information from
grant recipients that participate in this program using an OMB-approved
set of performance measures and seeks to extend its approved
information collection.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program,
performance measures were drafted to provide data to the program and to
enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by Congress
under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. These
measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to FORHP,
including: (1) access to care, (2) population demographics, (3)
staffing, (4) consortium/network, (5) sustainability, and (6) project
specific domains. All measures will speak to FORHP's progress toward
meeting the goals set. FORHP collects this information to quantify the
impact of grant funding on access to health care, quality of services,
and improvement of health outcomes. FORHP uses the data for program
improvement and grantees use the data for performance tracking. No
changes are proposed from the current data collection effort, but FORHP
estimates fewer respondents to align with the current cohort of
grantees.
Likely Respondents: The respondents would be the grant recipients
(program grantees, not patients who receive health care services) of
the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program grants.
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
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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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Performance Improvement and 21 1 21 8 168
Measurement Systems (PIMS).....
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Total....................... 21 1 21 8 168
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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. 2024-02242 Filed 2-2-24; 8:45 am]
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