Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures

ICR 202308-0906-002

OMB: 0906-0075

Federal Form Document

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Form and Instruction
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Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change
2023-08-25
Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change
2023-07-19
Supporting Statement A
2023-02-07
ICR Details
0906-0075 202308-0906-002
Received in OIRA 202307-0906-002
HHS/HRSA
Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection   No
Regular 08/28/2023
  Requested Previously Approved
04/30/2026 04/30/2026
956 406
3,966 3,938
0 0

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) is requesting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to electronically collect data for Optimizing Virtual Care (OVC) grant recipient activities and performance measures over an approximately 14-month period. In February 2022, HRSA awarded nearly $55 million to 29 HRSA-funded health centers through the OVC grant program to increase health care access and quality for underserved populations through virtual care such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital patient tools, and health information technology platforms. The goal of the OVC grant program is to continue to support innovation that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, when health centers quickly expanded their use of virtual care to maintain access to essential primary care services for underserved communities. HRSA-funded health centers serve special and vulnerable populations facing barriers to virtual care access, such as low digital literacy, low connectivity capabilities, or limited technology access. The 29 grant recipients will serve as a model for how to increase equitable virtual care, generating and refining strategies that can be adapted and scaled across the Health Center Program. The data on grant recipient activities and performance will help HRSA demonstrate, adapt, assess, and disseminate promising practices, strategies, and novel models of virtual care across the nation’s health centers. The grant recipient activities related to implementation of novel models of virtual care, including aggregate data on patients served and the services they received, will be captured via monthly progress reports. A set of health center performance measures will be captured via a biannual measures report and will provide evidence-informed insight into health equity and virtual care. The Health Center Program and supplemental awards to health centers are authorized by Section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 254b). Notably, HRSA is authorized under 42 U.S.C. 254b(d) to make supplemental awards for health centers to “implement evidence-based models for increasing access to high-quality primary care services, which may include models related to… expanding the use of telehealth and technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models .” As per 45 CFR §75.301, HRSA is obligated to collect performance information on its grants “in a way that will help the HHS awarding agency and other non-Federal entities to improve program outcomes, share lessons learned, and spread the adoption of promising practices.” The original version of the information collection instruments submitted to OMB inadvertently included the April 2022 versions of the data collection instruments developed prior to the 60-day public comment period (Biannual 12-Items Measures Progress Report version 3.1 and OVC Grant Recipient MPR template version 3.5b, dated April 5, 2022). Thus, HRSA is now submitting the revised instruments (OVC Biannual Measures Report Template version 6.0 and OVC Grant Recipient MPR version 4.0, dated December 8, 2022), which include minor revisions made in response to grant recipient and OVC project officer feedback.

US Code: 42 USC 254b Name of Law: Health centers
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  87 FR 37874 06/24/2022
88 FR 7986 02/07/2023
No

  Total Request Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 956 406 0 550 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 3,966 3,938 0 28 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
HRSA is requesting that the Operational Site Visit acknowledgement form be approved as an amendment to the Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures ICR. The purpose of this request is to receive OMB approval to add the OSV acknowledgement form to the Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures ICR. The OSV acknowledgement form will be used to coordinate health center oversight. The burden increase is 27.5 hours (rounded up to 28 hours), per year.

$69,705
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    No
No
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Tierra Moore 301 443-0496 [email protected]

  No

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.
08/28/2023


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