[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 90 (Thursday, May 10, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26640-26641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9012]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law (Pub. L.) 104-13), the Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed 
projects being developed for submission to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 
information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and draft instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer on 301-443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) The proposed collection of information 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency; (b) the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education 
Payment Program (CHGME PP) Annual Report: NEW

    The CHGME PP was enacted by Pub. L. 106-129 to provide Federal 
support for graduate medical education (GME) to freestanding children's 
hospitals, similar to Medicare GME support received by other, non-
children's hospitals. The legislation indicates that eligible 
children's hospitals will receive payments for both direct and indirect 
medical education. Direct payments are designed to offset the expenses 
associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training 
programs and indirect payments are designed to compensate hospitals for 
expenses associated with the treatment of more severely ill patients 
and the additional costs relating to teaching residents in such 
programs.
    The CHGME PP was reauthorized for a period of five years in October 
2006 by Pub. L. 109-307. The reauthorizing legislation requires that 
participating children's hospitals provide information about their 
residency training programs in an annual report that will be an 
addendum to the hospitals' annual applications for funds.
    Data are required to be collected on: (1) The types of training 
programs that the hospital provided for residents such as general 
pediatrics, internal medicine/pediatrics, and pediatric subspecialties 
including both medical subspecialties certified and non-medical 
subspecialties; (2) the number of training positions for residents, the 
number of such positions recruited to fill, and the number of positions 
filled; (3) the types of training that the hospital provided for 
residents related to the health care needs of different populations 
such as children who are underserved for reasons of family income or 
geographic location, including rural and urban areas; (4) the changes 
in residency training including changes in curricula, training 
experiences, and types of training programs, and benefits that have 
resulted from such changes and changes for purposes of training 
residents in the measurement and improvement and the quality and safety 
of patient care; and

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(5) the numbers of residents (disaggregated by specialty and 
subspecialty) who completed training in the academic year and care for 
children within the borders of the service area of the hospital or 
within the borders of the State in which the hospital is located.
    The estimated annual burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number      Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents     respondent     of responses      response          hours
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Screening Instrument............              60               1              60               5             300
GME Program-level Instrument....              60              30            1800              10          18,000
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    Total.......................              60  ..............            1860  ..............          18,300
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: May 4, 2007.
Caroline Lewis,
Associate Administrator for Management.
[FR Doc. E7-9012 Filed 5-9-07; 8:45 am]
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