[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 90 (Friday, May 8, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27419-27420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09906]
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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; Information Collection
Request Title: The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education
Program Reconciliation Tool, OMB No. 0915-0342--Extension
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 June 8,
2020.
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.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa Wright-Solomon, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: The Teaching Health Center
Graduate Medical Education Program Reconciliation Tool OMB No. 0915-
0342--Extension.
Abstract: The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education
(THCGME) program, authorized by Section 340H of the Public Health
Service Act, was established by Section 5508 of Public Law (Pub. L.)
111-148. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-123) provided
continued funding for the THCGME Program for fiscal years 2018 and 2019
and the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act extends
funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 for the first two months of FY 2021
(until November 30, 2020).
THCGME program awards payment for both direct and indirect expenses
to support training for primary care residents in community-based
ambulatory patient care settings. Direct medical expense payments are
designed to compensate eligible teaching health centers for those
expenses directly associated with resident training, while indirect
medical expense payments are intended to compensate for the additional
costs of training residents in such programs.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on January 22,
2020, Vol. 85, No. 14; pp. 3696-97. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: THCGME program payments
are prospective payments, and the statute provides for a reconciliation
process, through which overpayments may be recouped and underpayments
may be adjusted at the end of the fiscal year. This data collection
instrument will gather information relating to the number of resident
full-time equivalents in Teaching Health Center training programs in
order to reconcile payments for both direct and indirect expenses.
Likely Respondents: The likely responders to the THCGME
Reconciliation Tool are THCGME program 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 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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THCGME Reconciliation Tool...... 58 1 58 2 116
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Total....................... 58 .............. 58 .............. 116
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2020-09906 Filed 5-7-20; 8:45 am]
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