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The following request has been 

submitted to OMB for review under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 

Proposed Project: National Practitioner 

Data Bank for Adverse Information on 

Physicians and Other Health Care 

Practitioners: Regulations and Forms 

(OMB No. 0915–0126)—Extension 

The National Practitioner Data Bank 

(NPDB) was established through Title IV 

of Public Law (Pub. L.) 99–660, the 

Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 

1986, as amended. Final regulations 

governing the NPDB are codified at 45 

CFR part 60. Responsibility for NPDB 

implementation and operation resides 

in the Bureau of Health Professions, 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration, Department of Health 

and Human Services. The NPDB began 

operation on September 1, 1990. 

The intent of Title IV of Pub. L. 99–

660 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 

physicians, dentists, and other health 

care practitioners to move from State-toState without disclosure of the 

practitioner’s previous damaging or 

incompetent performance. 

The NPDB acts primarily as a flagging 

system; its principal purpose is to 

facilitate comprehensive review of 

practitioners’ professional credentials 

and background. Information on 

medical malpractice payments, adverse 

licensure actions, adverse clinical 

privileging actions, adverse professional 

society actions, and Medicare/Medicaid 

exclusions is collected from, and 

disseminated to, eligible entities. It is 

intended that NPDB information should 

be considered with other relevant 

information in evaluating a 

practitioner’s credentials. 

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.npdbhipdb.hrsa.gov. All reporting and 

querying is performed through this 

secure Web site. Due to overlap in 

requirements for the Healthcare 

Integrity and Protection Data Bank 

(HIPDB), some of the NPDB’s burden 

has been subsumed under the HIPDB. 

Estimates of annualized burden are as 

follows: 

Regulation citation No. of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

(minutes) 

Total burden 

hours 

60.6(a) Errors & Omissions ............................................................................. 315 4 15 315 

60.6(b) Revisions to Actions ............................................................................ 109 1 30 54.5 

60.7(b) Medical Malpractice Payment Reports ............................................... 519 29 45 11,288.25 

60.8(b) Adverse Action Reports—State Boards .............................................. 0 0 0 

60.9(a)3 Adverse Action Reports—Clinical Privileges & Professional Society 480 2 45 720 

Requests for Hearings by Entities ................................................................... 0 0 480 0 

60.10(a)(1) Queries by Hospital—Practitioner Applications ............................ 0 0 0 0 

60.10(a)(2) Queries by Hospitals—2 Year Cycle ............................................ 5,996 213 5 106,429 

60.11(a)(1) Disclosure to Hospitals ................................................................. 0 0 0 0 

60.11(a)(2) Disclosure to Practitioners (Self-Query) ....................................... 0 0 0 0 

60.11(a)(3) Disclosure to Licensure Boards .................................................... 87 645 5 4,676.25 

60.11(a)(4) Queries by Non-Hospital Health Care Entities ............................. 7,305 322 5 196,017.5 

60.11(a)(5) Queries by Plaintiffs’ Attorneys ..................................................... 5 1 30 2.5 

60.11(a)(6) Queries by Non-Hospital Health Care Entities-Peer Review ....... 0 0 0 0 

60.11(a)(7) Requests by Researchers for Aggregate Data ............................ 20 1 30 10 

60.14(b) Practitioner Places a Report in Disputed Status .............................. 404 1 15 101 

60.14(b) Practitioner Statement ....................................................................... 1,415 1 45 1,061.25 

60.14(b) Practitioner Requests for Secretarial Review ................................... 27 1 480 216 

60.3 Entity Registration—Initial ....................................................................... 1,447 1 60 1,447 

60.3 Entity Registration—Update .................................................................... 13,115 1 5 1,092.92 

60.11(a) Authorized Agent Designation—Initial .............................................. 717 1 15 179.25 

60.11(a) Authorized Agent—Update ............................................................... 139 1 5 11.58 

60.12(c) Account Discrepancy Report ............................................................. 5 1 15 1.25 

60.12(c) Electronic Funds Transfer Authorization ........................................... 284 1 15 71 

60.3 Entity Reactivation ................................................................................... 0 1 

Total Burden Hours .................................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 323,694.25 

Numbers in the table may not add up exactly due to rounding. 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 

Karen Matsuoka, Human Resources and 

Housing Branch, Office of Management 

and Budget, New Executive Office 

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: May 2, 2007. 

Caroline Lewis, 

Associate Administrator for Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, the Health Resources 

and Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes abstracts of information 

collection requests under review by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of 

the clearance requests submitted to 

OMB for review, call the HRSA Reports 

Clearance Office at (301) 443–1129. 

The following request has been 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget for review under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 


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Proposed Project: The Stem Cell 

Therapeutic Outcomes Database—

(New) 

The Stem Cell Therapeutic and 

Research Act of 2005 establishes the 

C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation 

Program and provides for the collection 

and maintenance of human blood stem 

cells for the treatment of patients and 

for research. The Health Resources and 

Services Administration’s (HRSA), 

Healthcare Systems Bureau (HSB), is 

establishing the Stem Cell Therapeutic 

Outcomes Database as one component 

of the C.W. Bill Young Cell 

Transplantation Program. Operation of 

this database necessitates certain 

reporting requirements in order to 

perform the functions related to 

hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 

under contract to HHS. The Act requires 

the Secretary to contract for the 

collection and maintenance of 

information related to patients who 

have received stem cell therapeutic 

products and to do so using a 

standardized, electronic format. Data 

will be collected from transplant centers 

in a manner similar to the data 

collection activities historically 

conducted by the Medical College of 

Wisconsin’s Center for International 

Blood and Marrow Transplant Research 

(CIBMTR) and will be used for ongoing 

analysis of transplant outcomes. HRSA 

will use the information in order to 

carry out its statutory responsibilities. 

Information is needed to monitor the 

clinical status of transplantation, and to 

provide the Secretary with an annual 

report of transplant center-specific 

survival data. 

The estimate of burden is as follows: 

Form 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

Responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total 

burden hours 

Baseline Pre-TED (Transplant Essential Data) ................. 225 32 7,200 0 .85 6,120 

Product Form (includes Infusion, HLA, and Infectious 

Disease Marker inserts) ................................................. 225 14 3,150 1 .5 4,725 

100-Day Post-TED ............................................................. 225 32 7,200 0 .85 6,120 

6-Month Post-TED ............................................................. 225 23 5,175 1 .00 5,175 

12-Month Post-TED ........................................................... 225 20 4,500 1 .00 4,500 

Annual Post-TED ............................................................... 225 16 3,600 1 .50 5,400 

Total ............................................................................ 225 ........................ 30,825 .......................... 32,040 

The Pre-TED, Product Form, 100-Day Post-TED, 6-Month Post-TED, and 12-Month Post-TED will be collected on all patients during their first 

year of transplant. In subsequent years, patient outcomes will be reported on the Annual Post-TED form. There will be a gradual increase in the 

cumulative reporting burden over time commensurate with the number of survivors for which transplant centers must submit an Annual PostTED. 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 

Karen Matsuoka, Human Resources and 

Housing Branch, Office of Management 

and Budget, New Executive Office 

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: May 2, 2007. 

Caroline Lewis, 

Associate Administrator for Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Announcement of a Change to the 

Awarding Factors Under the Fiscal 

Year 2007 New Access Points in High 

Poverty Counties (HRSA–07–069) 

Grant Opportunity 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), HHS. 

ACTION: Revision to awarding factors. 

SUMMARY: The Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) is 

announcing a change to the awarding 

factors under the HRSA–07–069 ‘‘New 

Access Points in High Poverty 

Counties’’ funding opportunity [issued 

on Grants.gov March 14, 2007] as they 

relate to awards made under the HRSA–

07–067 ‘‘New Access Points’’ funding 

opportunity for the President’s first 

Health Centers Initiative [issued on 

Grants.gov October 6, 2006]. 

In making award decisions for fiscal 

year (FY) 2007, HRSA will now 

consider granting the same organization 

a new access point award under HRSA–

07–067 and HRSA–07–069. HRSA will 

consider more than one FY 2007 new 

access point award to an organization if, 

and only if each application submitted 

(by the same organization for the two 

different funding opportunities) 

proposes a separate and distinct project 

to serve different counties. That is, there 

must be no overlap or duplication of 

service area, target population, or sites. 

(Under previous HRSA policy, if an 

organization receives a grant award in 

FY 2007 under the first opportunity, 

HRSA–07–067, it could not be awarded 

funds in FY 2007 under HRSA–07–069). 

Applicants for HRSA–07–069 should 

also be aware that each new access 

point application must be complete and 

must be able to stand alone. 

The changes announced in this 

Federal Register Notice do not impact 

any HRSA policy for eligibility under 

the HRSA–07–069. Organizations 

continue to be eligible to submit one 

application under HRSA–07–069, 

irrespective of whether they applied 

under HRSA–07–067 or not. 

Additionally, all other awarding factors 

detailed in HRSA–07–069 remain the 

same. 

Reference: HRSA–07–069 is available 

online via the HRSA Web site at: 

http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/ 

technicalassistance/pi2nap.htm or 

http://www.grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Preeti Kanodia, Division of Policy and 

Development, Bureau of Primary Health 

Care, Health Resources and Services 

Administration. Ms. Kanodia may be 

contacted by e-mail at 

DPDGeneral@hrsa.gov or via telephone 

at (301) 594–4300. 

Dated: May 2, 2007. 

Dennis P. Williams, 

Deputy Administrator. 

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