Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a list of information collection

requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these documents, call

the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301)443-8005.

Proposed Project: The 1997 Sample Survey of Mental Health

Organizations and General Hospitals with Separate Psychiatric

Services--Revision of the Inventory of Mental Health Organizations and

General Hospital Mental Health Services (IMHO/GHMHS). The survey will

be conducted in two phases. Phase I will be a brief two page inventory

consisting of two forms--one for all organizations that provide mental

health treatment services and the other for all managed behavioral

health care organizations. Phase II will be a sample survey of over

3,000 organizations drawn from the universe of organizations providing

mental health treatment services identified in the first phase. The

sample survey will use a more comprehensive, but very similar form to

the one used in the 1994 IMHO/GHMHS. The organizational data to be

collected include ownership and management, client/patient

demographics, revenues and expenditures, and staffing. The

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dataset produced will be used to provide national statistical estimates

and will be the basis of the National Directory of Mental Health

Services. The annual burden estimate is as follows:

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Annual burden--

3 Year total-- 3 year total-- Annual average-- Total

Respondent category Number of Responses per Number of Hours per annualized

respondents respondent respondents response response

burden (hours)

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Phase I (Directory Registry):

Specialty Mental Health

Organizations (Self

reporting).............. 3,045 1 1,015 0.25 254

Specialty Mental Health

Organizations (State MIS

reports)................ 761 1 254 0.09 23

General Hospitals with

known Psychiatric

Services................ 1,616 1 534 0.25 135

General Hospitals

screened for Psychiatric

Services................ 4,800 1 1,600 0.25 400

Community Residential

Organizations........... 1,500 1 500 0.25 125

Managed Care

Organizations........... 700 1 233 0.25 58

Phase II (Sample Survey):

Specialty Mental Health

Organizations (self

reporting).............. 1,841 1 614 2.5 1,534

Specialty Mental Health

Organizations (State MIS

reports)................ 533 1 178 1.0 178

General Hospitals with

Psychiatric Services

(Self reporting)........ 962 1 321 2.5 802

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Grand Total............ 15,758 ................ 5,249 .............. 3,509

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Daniel J. Chenok, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office

of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10236,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: March 9, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-6498 Filed 3-12-98; 8:45 am]

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