Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and

Recommendations

In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects. To request more information on the proposed project or to

obtain a copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.

Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (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 Projects

1. National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on

Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners: Regulations and Forms

(OMB No. 0915-0126)--Extension, No Change--The Data Bank forms and

regulations received a short-term approval in June 1995. As part of the

terms of clearance, HRSA was required to submit an updated analysis of

small medical malpractice payments (concerning the issue of monetary

threshold reporting of claims) and provide OMB with an updated chart of

the distribution of malpractice awards. The requirements have been

satisfied and the results of the analysis have been forwarded to OMB.

The Data Bank regulations and forms are now being resubmitted for a 3-

year approval. This request is for an extension with no changes. The

burden estimates are as follows:

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Total

Title Number of Frequency of Number of Hours per burden

respondents response responses response hours

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60.6(a) Reporting Corrections of Errors and

Omissions................................. 2,800 1.04 2,925 .25 731

60.6(b) Revisions to Original Report

Actions................................... 350 1.06 370 .75 278

60.7(b) Reporting Medical Malpractice

Payments.................................. 150 105.33 15,800 .75 11,850

60.8(b) Reporting Licensure Action by State

Boards.................................... 125 21.02 2,630 .75 1,973

60.9(a) Reporting Privileging and

Professional Society Actions.............. 1,000 1.08 1,075 .75 806

60.9(c) Request for Hearings by Entitles

Found in Noncompliance.................... 1 1 1 8.00 8

60.10(a)(1) Hospital Queries on Applicants;

60.11(a)(1) Other Hospital Queries;

60.11(a)(6) Queries for Professional

Review.................................... 7,200 38.33 276,000 .08 23,000

60.10(a)(2) Biennial Queries by Hospitals.. 6,000 186.83 1,121,000 .08 93,417

60.11(a)(2) Practitioner Queries........... 29,000 1 29,000 .25 7,250

60.11(a)(3) State Licensure Board Queries.. 70 171 12,000 .08 1,000

60.11(a)(4) Queries by Nonhospital Health

Care Entities............................. 1,860 139.78 260,000 .08 21,667

60.11(a)(5) Queries by Attorneys........... 10 1 10 .25 3

60.11(a)(7) Queries for Research Purposes.. 100 1 1 1.00 100

60.14(b) Practitioner's Disputing Data Bank

Reports................................... 1,080 1 1,080 .17 180

60.14(b) Practitioner Requests for

Secretarial Review........................ 100 1 100 8.00 800

60.14(b) Practitioner Statements........... 2,700 1 2,700 1.00 2,700

Biennial Entity Verification Document...... 5,750 1 5,750 .25 1,438

Entity File Update......................... 1,150 1 1,150 .25 288

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Note: Estimated Total Annual Burden: 167,489

2. Survey of Exchange Visitor Physicians Remaining in the United

States on a Waiver--NEW--Announcement is made of the intention to

survey exchange visitor physicians, i.e., physicians who entered the

United States on a J-1 visa to engage in graduate medical education,

who have been granted waivers to the return home requirement. Exchange

visitor foreign physicians receive a J-1 visa and agree to return to

their home country or country of last residence for a minimum of two

years upon completing their training. The Department of Health and

Human Services needs information about practice specialty and site of

these physicians to make informed decisions regarding the

implementation of waiver policy. A survey will be conducted to obtain

the following items of information: (1) marital status; (2) basis of

waiver; (3) initial and current geographic location; (4) initial and

current medical specialty; (5) number of years of training completed in

the U.S.; (6) changes of venue after initial practice site; (7)

sequence of specialties after initial practice specialty.

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Total

Type of form Number of Frequency Hours per burden

respondents of response response hours

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Survey of Physicians

with J-1 Visa

Waivers............ 1,457 1 .50 729

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Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: September 27, 1995.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.

[FR Doc. 95-24460 Filed 9-29-95; 8:45 am]

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