[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47854-47855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19665]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Proposed Information Collection Activity: Comment Request
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
periodically publishes abstracts of information collection submitted
for review to 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 clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at (301)
443-1984.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program Information System: Data Collection Forms (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--
[New]
On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-148),
legislation designed to make quality, affordable, health care available
to all Americans, reduce costs, improve health care quality, enhance
disease prevention, and strengthen the health care workforce. Through a
provision authorizing the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, the Act responds to the
diverse needs of children and families in communities at risk and
provides an unprecedented opportunity for collaboration and partnership
at the Federal, State, Tribal, and community levels to improve health
and development outcomes for at-risk children through evidence-based
home visiting programs. The MIECHV Program is designed: (1) To
strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under
Title V; (2) to improve coordination of services for at-risk
communities; and (3) to identify and provide comprehensive services to
improve outcomes for families who reside in at-risk communities.
Formula-based and competitive grants have been awarded to States, other
eligible jurisdictions, and, under a legislative provision setting
aside dedicated funds for a Tribal MIECHV program, to eligible Indian
Tribes and consortia of Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Urban Indian
Organizations. Competitive grants to non-profit organizations to
provide home visiting in certain States are anticipated.
The Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511 (42 U.S.C. 711), as
amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010,
requires that MIECHV grantees collect both socio-demographic data and
data to measure improvements for eligible families in six specified
areas (referred to as ``benchmark areas'') that encompass the major
goals for the program. The Supplemental Information Request for the
Submission of the Updated State Plan for a State Home Visiting Program
(SIR), published on February 8, 2011, further listed a variety of
constructs under each benchmark area for which grantees were to select
and submit relevant performance measures. Per Section 511(d)(1)(B)(i)
of the legislation, no later than 30 days after the end of the third
year of the program, grantees are required to
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demonstrate improvement in at least four of the six benchmark areas.
The SIR and subsequent MIECHV guidance documents for both competitive
and formula grants also require that grantees report annually on the
constructs under each benchmark area, as well as on demographic,
service utilization, budgetary and other administrative data related to
program implementation.
The proposed data collection and reporting forms were initially
developed by an internal MIECHV workgroup in consultation with
evidence-based home visiting model developers and selected grantees and
further refined based on comments received during the previous 60-day
public comment period. The data collected with the proposed forms will
be used to track grantees' progress in demonstrating improvement under
each benchmark area and provide an overall picture of the population
being served. The proposed data collection forms are as follows:
Home Visiting Form 1--Demographic and Service Utilization Data for
Enrollees and Children
This form will be utilized by all MIECHV program grantees
(including Tribal program grantees) and will collect data to determine
the unduplicated number of participants and of participant groups by
primary insurance coverage. This form will also request data on the
demographic characteristics of program participants as well as service
utilization data.
Home Visiting Form 2--Grantee Performance Measures
States, the District of Columbia, and territories participating in
the MIECHV program have already selected relevant performance
indicators for the legislatively identified benchmark areas. This form
provides a template for these jurisdictions and non-profit grantees
implementing home visiting programs to report aggregate data on their
already selected and approved performance measures.
While there will be variation in the data collection and reporting
burden to grantees based on the number of families served and data
system capabilities, the annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Annual number Number of Average
Reporting document of responses per Total burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent responses per response hours
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HV Form 1: Demographic and \1\ 81 1 81 731 59,211
Service Utilization Data for
Enrollees and Children.........
HV Form 2: Grantee Performance \2\ 56 1 56 313 17,528
Measures.......................
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Total....................... 81 .............. 81 .............. 76,739
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\1\ In addition to 56 jurisdictions and non-profit organizations, it is estimated that up to 25 Tribal MIECHV
program grantees will utilize Form 1 to report on demographic and service utilization data for all participant
families.
\2\ Does not include Tribal program grantees.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: August 6, 2012.
Wendy Ponton,
Director, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2012-19665 Filed 8-9-12; 8:45 am]
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