Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; DATA 2000 Waiver Training Payment Program Application for Payment, OMB No. 0906-0061
| Published date | 15 February 2024 |
| Record Number | 2024-03092 |
| Citation | 89 FR 11838 |
| Court | Health Resources And Services Administration |
| Section | Notices |
Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 32 (Thursday, February 15, 2024)
[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 32 (Thursday, February 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11838-11840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03092]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; DATA 2000 Waiver Training
Payment Program Application for Payment, OMB No. 0906-0061
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than March 18,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: DATA 2000 Waiver Training
Payment Program Application for Payment, OMB No. 0906-0061--Revision.
Abstract: The Substance Use--Disorder Prevention that Promotes
Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT)
Act (Pub. L. 115-271), section 6083, amended the Social Security Act
(subsections 1834(o)(3) and 1833(bb)), authorizing the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (Secretary) to pay Federally Qualified Health
Centers (FQHC) and Rural Health Clinics (RHC) for the average cost of
training for purposes of receiving a DATA 2000 waiver for their
physicians and practitioners to furnish opioid use disorder treatment
services. The SUPPORT Act made $6 million available to FQHCs and $2
million available to RHCs under the DATA 2000 Waiver Training Payment
Program. To receive payment, FQHCs and RHCs must submit an application
in the manner specified by the Secretary. Authority to administer the
DATA 2000 program has been delegated to HRSA. Further information about
the program can be found in the link below which provides guidance on
the requirements of the DATA 2000 program and how qualified FQHCs and
RHCs can apply to the program: https://help.hrsa.gov/display/public/EHBSKBFG/DATA+2000+Waiver+Training+Payment+Program+FAQs.
This purpose of this revision is to update the burden estimate for
the RHC application process because the funding appropriated for FQHC
DATA 2000 payments has been fully expended. Therefore, no new
applications for FQHC DATA 2000 payments can be accepted or approved.
Only Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services certified RHCs can apply
for payments through the DATA 2000 program, and pursuant to the
authorizing statute and subsequent legislation eliminating the DATA
2000 waiver requirement, such RHCs may only receive payments with
respect to providers who first received their DATA 2000 Waiver between
January 1, 2019, and December 29, 2022.
Applicant entities must provide information identifying the
submitting organization and the number of practitioners who have
completed training and obtained a DATA 2000 waiver. The form will also
require the entity to include information regarding each claimed
practitioner's name, practitioner type (e.g., physician, physician
assistant, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, clinical nurse
specialist, certified registered nurse, or anesthetist), National
Provider Identifier number, Drug Enforcement Administration number,
state license number, length of training, date the training was
completed, date of waiver attainment, and DATA 2000 waiver number.
Additionally, the form will require signature of an attestation
statement certifying that: (1) each practitioner for which the entity
is seeking payment under the application is employed by or working
under contract for the applicant health facility; (2) it is the first
time the entity is seeking payment on behalf of the listed
practitioner(s); (3) the entity is eligible to seek payment under 42
U.S.C. 1395m(o)(3) or 42 U.S.C. 1395l(bb); (4) each practitioner is
furnishing opioid use disorder treatment services; and (5) the
statements herein are true, complete, and accurate to the best of the
applicant's knowledge.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 4,
2023, vol. 88, No. 231; pp. 84149-50. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The Substance Use--
Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for
Patients and Communities Act requires RHCs to submit to the Secretary
an application for payment at such time, in such manner, and containing
such information as specified by the Secretary in order to receive a
payment under section 6083. This form will allow RHCs to apply for such
payments based on the average cost of training to obtain DATA 2000
waivers, as determined by the Secretary, for their physicians and
practitioners to furnish opioid use disorder treatment services. The
form will also provide HRSA with the requisite data to validate
qualifying DATA 2000 waiver possessions for the purpose of ensuring
accurate payments to RHCs.
Likely Respondents: Only Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
certified RHCs are eligible to apply.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total
Form name respondents responses per responses response burden
respondent (in hours) hours
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DATA 2000 Waiver Training Payment Program 300 1 300 0.5 150.0
Application for Payment......................
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Total..................................... 300 1 300 ........... 150.0
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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