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

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the

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

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Proposed Project: Uniform Data System (OMB No. 0915-0193);

Extension and Revision

This is a request for extension and revision of approval of the

Uniform Data System (UDS), which contains the annual reporting

requirements for the cluster of primary care grantees funded by the

Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA). The UDS includes reporting requirements for

grantees of the following primary care programs: Community Health

Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, Outreach

and Primary Health Services for Homeless Children and Public Housing

Primary Care. Authorizing Legislation is found in Public Law 104-299,

Health Center Consolidation Act of 1996, enacting Section 330 of the

Public Health Service Act.

The Bureau of Primary Health Care collects data on its programs to

ensure compliance with legislative mandates and to report to Congress

and policy makers on program accomplishments. To meet these objectives,

BPHC requires

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a core set of information collected annually that is appropriate for

monitoring and evaluating performance and reporting on annual trends.

The UDS includes two components: the Universal Report, completed by all

grantees, provides data on services, staffing, and financing; and the

Grant Report, completed by grantees funded under the Homeless or Public

Housing Program as well as one of the other programs, provides data on

characteristics of users whose services fall within the scope of the

Homeless or Public Housing Program grant. The first UDS reports were

collected March 31, 1997, and analysis of data indicates that several

revisions should be made. Program officials have noted that additional

information needs to be collected which was included in previous

reporting systems but was deleted from the UDS. Grantees will be asked

to provide information on the charges, collections, bad debt write off

and contractual disallowances by payor sources (Medicaid, Medicare,

self pay and private insurance). Additional revisions include adding

categories to some of the lists (e.g., services, ICD codes, CPT codes)

and annotating the forms to indicate which lines are subtotals and the

lines to which they sum.

The proposed changes are not expected to add significantly to the

reporting burden. Estimates of annualized reporting burden are as

follows:

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Number of Hours per Total burden

Type of report respondents response hours

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Universal Report............ 685 24 16,440

Grant Report................ 94 16 1,504

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Total................. 685 ............ 17,944

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Laura Oliven, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: March 13, 1998.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 98-7051 Filed 3-18-98; 8:45 am]

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