[Federal Register: August 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 161)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 (OMB), 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: National Practitioner Data Bank and Healthcare
Integrity and Protection Data Bank Market Surveys and Survey of Use of
Data Bank Information by Queriers: NEW
The purpose of these surveys is to conduct a follow-up study to the
National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) User and Non-User Surveys of
2001. In addition, Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
(HIPDB) users and non-sers will be included in this study. The study
will evaluate the effectiveness of the NPDB and the HIPDB as flagging
systems, sources of information, and decisionmaking tools. It will also
determine user satisfaction with the process, use, and information
provided by the NPDB and HIPDB.
Surveys will be administered to entities that report to and/or
query the NPDB and HIPDB, including users who query either the NPDB
and/or HIPDB and who receive a ``match'', i.e. copies of adverse
actions concerning a queried practitioner. A sample of Queriers who
received a matched response will be surveyed about the information
received. NPDB and HIPDB non-users will also be surveyed. Eligible NPDB
and HIPDB users will be asked to complete a Web-based Internet survey
or a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI). NPDB and HIPDB non-
users will complete either a Web or CATI, or will be transferred to an
interactive voice response (IVR) system during the CATI to complete the
survey.
Data gathered from the survey will be compared with similar
information from previous surveys of users and non-users and will
provide HRSA with the information necessary to improve the usability of
the NPDB and HIPDB.
The estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Respondents Respondent description respondents respondent responses response (hours)
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NPDB Users Group Survey................... Malpractice Payers.......... 228 1 228 .25 57
Licensing Boards............ 90 1 90 .25 22.5
Hospitals (Reporting)....... 466 1 466 .25 116.5
Hospitals (Querying)........ 994 1 994 .25 248.5
MCOs........................ 900 1 900 .25 225
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Other HCEs (Reporting)...... 57 1 57 .25 14.25
Other HCEs (Querying)....... 976 1 976 .25 244
HIPDB Users Group Survey.................. Licensing Boards............ 231 1 231 .25 57.75
Government Hospitals........ 390 1 390 .25 97.5
MCOs........................ 580 1 580 .25 145
Other HCEs.................. 260 1 260 .25 65
NPDB Matched Response Survey.............. Licensing Boards............ 55 3 165 .1 16.5
Hospitals................... 984 3 2952 .1 295.2
MCOs........................ 848 3 2544 .1 254.4
Other HCEs.................. 904 3 2712 .1 271.2
HIPDB Matched Response Survey............. Licensing Boards............ 43 3 129 .1 12.9
Hospitals................... 202 3 606 .1 60.6
MCOs........................ 432 3 1296 .1 129.6
Other HCEs.................. 87 3 261 .1 26.1
NPDB Non-User Survey...................... Licensing Boards............ 213 1 213 .16 34.1
MCOs........................ 341 1 341 .16 54.6
Other HCEs.................. 881 1 881 .16 141
HIPDB Non-User Survey..................... Licensing Boards............ 30 1 30 .16 4.8
MCOs........................ 411 1 411 .16 76.3
Other HCEs.................. 974 1 974 .16 155.8
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Total................................. ............................ 11,577 .............. 18,687 .............. 2,826.1
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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 e-mail to
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: August 15, 2007.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E7-16371 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
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