Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Performance, OMB No. 0915-0363-Extension

Published date28 May 2019
Citation84 FR 24527
Record Number2019-11050
SectionNotices
CourtHealth And Human Services Department,Health Resources And Services Administration
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 102 (Tuesday, May 28, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 28, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 24527-24528]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-11050]
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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; Medicare Rural Hospital
                Flexibility Program Performance, OMB No. 0915-0363--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 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.
                DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 27,
                2019.
                ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk
                officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by
                fax to (202) 395-5806.
                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: Medicare Rural Hospital
                Flexibility Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0915-0363--Extension
                 Abstract: This information collection comment request is for
                continued approval of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
                Performance Measures. HRSA is proposing to continue this data
                collection with no changes. The current performance measures are
                collected electronically in the Performance Improvement and Measurement
                System, which awardees access securely through the HRSA Electronic
                Handbooks.
                 The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex Program) is
                authorized by Section 1820 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i-
                4), as amended. The purpose of the Flex Program is to enable state
                designated entities to support critical access hospitals in quality
                improvement, quality reporting, performance improvement, and
                benchmarking; to assist facilities seeking designation as critical
                access hospitals; and to create a program to establish or expand the
                provision of rural emergency medical services.
                 A 60-day Federal Register Notice was published in the Federal
                Register on February 5, 2019, vol. 84, No. 24; pp. 1751-1752. There
                were no public comments.
                 Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program,
                performance measures were developed to provide data useful to the Flex
                program and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required
                by Congress under the Government Performance and Results Modernization
                Act of 2010 (GPRA). These measures cover principal topic areas of
                interest to the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy including: (a)
                Quality reporting, (b) quality improvement interventions, (c) financial
                and operational improvement initiatives, (d) population health
                management, and (e) innovative care models. Several measures will be
                used for this program and will inform the Office's progress toward
                meeting the goals set in GPRA. Furthermore, obtained information is
                important in identifying and understanding programmatic improvement
                across program areas, as well as guiding future iterations of the Flex
                Program and prioritizing areas of need and support.
                 Likely Respondents: Respondents are the Flex Program coordinator
                for the
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                states participating in the Flex Program. There are currently 45 states
                participating in the Flex 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.
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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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                Medicare Rural Hospital 45 1 45 70 3,150
                 Flexibility Program............
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                 Total Estimated Annualized 45 .............. 45 .............. 3,150
                 Burden--Hours..............
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                Amy P. McNulty,
                Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
                [FR Doc. 2019-11050 Filed 5-24-19; 8:45 am]
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