Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 67 (Monday, April 8, 2013)
Federal Register Volume 78, Number 67 (Monday, April 8, 2013)
Notices
Pages 20929-20931
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office www.gpo.gov
FR Doc No: 2013-08071
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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
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will submit an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 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. To request a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at (301) 443-1984.
Information Collection Request Title: National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners--45 CFR Part 60 Regulations and Forms OMB No. 0915-0126--
Revision
Abstract: This is a request for a revision of OMB approval of the information collections contained in regulations found at 45 CFR part 60 governing the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the forms to be used in registering with, reporting information to, and requesting information from the NPDB. Section 6403 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act) Public Law 111-148 requires the transfer of all data in the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
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(HIPDB) to the NPDB. Data collection will not change; however, the merger will consolidate forms from OMB No. 0915-0239 for HIPDB under OMB No. 0915-0126 for NPDB. Responsibility for NPDB implementation and operation resides in the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Operation of the HIPDB was delegated by the HHS Office of the Inspector General to HRSA. This rule eliminates duplicative data reporting and access requirements between the HIPDB established through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) under Section 1128(b)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7e) and the NPDB established through the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 under Title IV (42 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.) and expanded by Section 1921 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-
2). Information previously collected and disclosed through the HIPDB will be collected and disclosed through the NPDB. Section 6403 of the Affordable Care Act consolidates the collection and disclosure of information from both data banks under Title 45 part 60 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). HHS will subsequently remove Title 45 part 61, which implemented the HIPDB.
The intent of NPDB is to improve the quality of health care by encouraging hospitals, state licensing boards, professional societies, and other entities providing health care services, to identify and discipline those who engage in unprofessional behavior; and to restrict the ability of incompetent health care practitioners, providers, or suppliers to move from state to state without disclosure of previous damaging or incompetent performance. It also serves as a fraud and abuse clearinghouse for the reporting and disclosing of certain final adverse actions (excluding settlements in which no findings of liability have been made) taken against health care practitioners, providers, or suppliers by health plans, federal agencies, and state agencies.
The NPDB acts primarily as a flagging system; its principal purpose is to facilitate comprehensive review of practitioners' professional credentials and background. Information is collected from, and disseminated to, eligible entities (entities that are entitled to query and/or report to the NPDB under the three aforementioned statutory authorities) on the following: (1) Medical malpractice payments, (2) licensure actions taken by Boards of Medical Examiners, (3) state licensure and certification actions, (4) federal licensure and certification actions, (5) negative actions or findings taken by peer review organizations or private accreditation entities, (6) adverse actions taken against clinical privileges, (7) federal or state criminal convictions related to the delivery of a health care item or service, (8) civil judgments related to the delivery of a health care item or service, (9) exclusions from participation in federal or state health care programs, and (10) other adjudicated actions or decisions. It is intended that NPDB information should be considered with other relevant information in evaluating credentials of health care practitioners, providers, and suppliers.
The reporting forms and the request for information forms (query forms) are accessed, completed, and submitted to the NPDB electronically through the NPDB Web site at http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/. All reporting and querying is performed through this secure Web site.
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.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Regulation citation Form name respondents respondent responses response hours
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Sec. 60.6: Reporting errors, omissions, Correction, Revision to 38,785 1 38,785 .25 9,696
revisions or whether an action is on Action, Correction of
appeal. Revision to Action, Void,
Notice of Appeal.
Sec. 60.7: Reporting medical malpractice Medical Malpractice Payment. 14,193 1 14,193 .75 10,645
payments.
Sec. 60.8: Reporting licensure actions State Licensure............. 28,700 1 28,700 .75 21,525
taken by Boards of Medical Examiners &
Sec. 60.9: Reporting licensure and
certification actions taken by States.
Sec. 60.10: Reporting Federal licensure DEA/Federal Licensure....... 499 1 499 .75 374
and certification actions.
Sec. 60.11: Reporting negative actions Peer Review Organization.... 10 1 10 .75 8
or findings taken by peer review
organizations or private accreditation
entities.
Accreditation............... 10 1 10 .75 8
Sec. 60.12: Reporting adverse actions Title IV Clinical Privileges 962 1 962 .75 722
taken against clinical privileges. Actions.
Professional Society........ 71 1 71 .75 53
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Sec. 60.13: Reporting Federal or State Criminal Conviction (Guilty 1,023 1 1,023 .75 767
criminal convictions to the delivery of a Plea or Trial).
health care item or service.
Deferred Conviction or Pre- 126 1 126 .75 95
Trial Diversion.
Nolo Contendere (No Contest) 63 1 63 .75 47
Plea.
Injunction.................. 10 1 10 .75 8
Sec. 60.14: Reporting civil judgments Civil Judgment.............. 10 1 10 .75 8
related to the delivery of a health care
item or service.
Sec. 60.15: Reporting exclusions from Exclusion/Debarment......... 2,402 1 2,402 .75 1,802
participation in Federal or State health
care programs.
Sec. 60.16: Reporting other adjudicated Government Administrative... 2,682 1 2,682 .75 2,012
actions or decisions.
Health Plan Action.......... 561 1 561 .75 421
Sec. 60.18 Requesting Information from One Time Query for an 986,552 1 986,552 .08 78,924
the NPDB. Individual.
One Time Query for an 18,892 1 18,892 .08 1,511
Organization.
Self-Query on an Individual. 154,824 1 154,824 .42 65,026
Self-Query on an 1,095 1 1,095 .42 460
Organization.
Continuous Query............ 387,767 1 387,767 .08 31,021
Sec. 60.21: How to dispute the accuracy Subject Statement and 3,347 1 3,347 .75 2,510
of NPDB information. Dispute.
Request for Secretarial 83 1 83 8 664
Review.
Administrative............................ Entity Registration 35,915 1 35,915 1 35,915
(Initial).
Entity Registration (Renewal 15,461 1 15,461 .08 1,237
& Update).
Agent Registration (Initial) 100 1 100 .25 25
Agent Registration (Renewal 100 1 100 .25 25
& Update).
Electronic Transfer of Funds 562 1 562 .25 141
(EFT)Authorization.
Authorized Agent Designation 1,290 1 1,290 .25 323
Account Discrepancy......... 20 1 20 .25 5
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Total................................. ............................ 1,696,115 .............. 1,696,115 .............. 265,978
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please direct all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Deadline: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Dated: April 1, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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