Notice2024-13620
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program
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Published
June 21, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52066-52067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13620]
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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; Small Health Care Provider
Quality Improvement Program
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 22,
2024.
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 Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4f3f2e3f2a3d38203d240f273d3c2e61282039"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="641405140116130b160f240c1617054a030b12">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Small Health Care Provider
Quality Improvement Program, OMB No. 0915-0387--Revision.
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 (SHCPQI) 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 SHCPQI activities, including activities related to increasing care
coordination, enhancing chronic disease management, and improving
patient health outcomes.
The purpose of the SHCPQI 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.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on February
5, 2024, 89 FR 7724-25. There were no public comments.
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 and an increase in the average burden per response to account
for new personnel.
FORHP received feedback from awardees that personnel changes result
in additional training needs for new hires, leading to a longer average
time to complete the SHCPQI Performance Improvement and Measurement
Systems form. As a result of this feedback, the estimated average
burden increased from 8 hours to 13.5 hours per response.
Likely Respondents: The respondents will be the grant recipients
(program grantees, not patients who receive health care services) of
the SHCPQI 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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SHCPQI Performance Improvement 21 1 21 13.5 283.5
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Total....................... 21 .............. 21 .............. 283.5
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-13620 Filed 6-20-24; 8:45 am]
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