[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 4 (Monday, January 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00030]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
ACTION: Notice.
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Summary: 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, 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, email
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301)
443-1984.
HRSA especially requests comments on: (1) The necessity and utility
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Information Collection Request Title: Analyzing Title V Programs in the
Context of the Affordable Care Act (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New]
Abstract: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will make affordable health
coverage available to all legal U.S. residents, as well as guide
transformation in the delivery of medicine and public health services.
For children, expanded coverage has come about gradually over the past
two decades, and implementation of major coverage provisions of the ACA
in 2014 will result in some shifts in child health coverage.
The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant,
administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration's
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, provides a foundation for ensuring
the health of the nation's mothers, women, children, and youth,
including children and youth with special health care needs, and their
families. Many ACA provisions, like State Medicaid expansions and
mandatory health insurance, will change the face of health insurance
demand and services provided. In response, State Title V programs will
focus on increasing access, equality, and health equity.
A proposed data collection form has been developed to collect
health care services budget information from Title V MCH Block Grant
recipients to better understand the types of direct services currently
provided by Title V MCH programs. This form will request information on
medical services and program support services in addition to data on
the individuals served.
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 Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Title V Health Care Services 59 1 59 8 472
Budget Survey..................
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Total....................... 59 .............. 59 .............. 472
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Deadline: Comments on this ICR must be received within 60 days of
this notice.
Dated: December 26, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-00030 Filed 1-4-13; 8:45 am]
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