OMB files this comment in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.11(c). This OMB action is not an approval to conduct or sponsor an information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This action has no effect on any current approvals. If OMB has assigned this ICR a new OMB Control Number, the OMB Control Number will not appear in the active inventory. For future submissions of this information collection, reference the OMB Control Number provided. In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the agency should resubmit this ICR at the final rule stage.
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/2012
36 Months From Approved
07/31/2012
2,706,000
0
2,706,000
541,200
0
541,200
0
0
0
As part of the DHHS Transparency Initiative on Quality Reporting, CMS plans to implement a process to measure and publicly report patients' experiences with home health care they receive from Medicare-certified home health agencies through the data collection effort described in this request: the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS?) Home Health Care Survey. The Home Health Care CAHPS Survey, which was developed and tested by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and is part of the family of CAHPS surveys, is a standardized survey for home health patients to assess their home health care providers and the quality of the home health care they receive. Prior to the Home Health Care CAHPS survey, there was no national standard for collecting data about home health care patients' experience with their home health care. This is a revision to the original PRA package which covered the voluntary implementation of the survey among Medicare-certified agencies and a randomized mode experiment to test the impact of different modes of data collection on survey responses.
This is a revised PRA package because it now includes the burden to the home health agencies (HHAs) to contract with an approved HHCAHPS survey vendor to administer the HHCAHPS survey on their behalf.
US Code:
42 USC 301
Name of Law: US Public Health Service Act
The HHAs have some burden in the HHCAHPS that was NOT included in the original (new) PRA collection package that was approved by OMB 7-18-09. The HHAs must do the following in regard to HHCAHPS: (1) Contract with an approved HHCAHPS survey vendor to administer the HHCAHPS survey and to submit the HHCAHPS survey data to the Data Center on the HHAs' behalf; (2) Register for credentials to access the private secure links on the HHCAHPS website, www.homehealthcahps.org; (3) When registering for credentials to access the private links on www.homehealthcahps.org, the system will automatically generate a customized Consent Form for the HHAs. Each HHA must print this Consent
Form and mail the completed signed and notarized Consent Form to the HHCAHPS Coordination Team; (4) Authorize an HHCAHPS survey vendor to collect and submit the HHCAHPS survey data to the Data Center; (5) Stay informed about HHCAHPS by checking www.homehealthcahps.org at least twice a week; (6) Prepare a monthly patient information file containing information that the survey vendor needs for sampling and fielding the survey; and (7) Submit the monthly patient information file to the survey vendor by the date specified or agreed to by your contracted survey vendor.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
HomeHealthCAHPS_OMB_PartB revised 6-24-10.pdf
CAHPS Home Health Care Survey