[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39020-39022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16399]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals: Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on
Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners
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, e-mail
[email protected] or 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 for Adverse
Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners--45 CFR
Part 60 Regulations and Forms (OMB No. 0915-0126)--Extension.
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) was established through
Title IV of Public Law (Pub. L.) 99-660, the Health Care Quality
Improvement Act of 1986, as amended. Final regulations governing the
NPDB are codified at 45 CFR part 60. Responsibility for NPDB
implementation and operation resides in the Bureau of Health
Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS). The NPDB began operation on
September 1, 1990.
The intent of Title IV of Public Law 99-660 is to improve the
quality of
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health care by encouraging hospitals, State licensing boards,
professional societies, and other entities providing health care
services, to identify and discipline those who engage in unprofessional
behavior; and to restrict the ability of incompetent physicians,
dentists, and other health care practitioners to move from State to
State without disclosure of the practitioner's previous damaging or
incompetent performance.
The NPDB acts primarily as a flagging system; its principal purpose
is to facilitate comprehensive review of practitioners' professional
credentials and background. Information on medical malpractice
payments, adverse licensure actions, adverse clinical privileging
actions, adverse professional society actions, and Medicare/Medicaid
exclusions is collected from, and disseminated to, eligible entities
(entities that are entitled to query and/or report to the NPDB under
the provisions of 45 CFR part 60). It is intended that NPDB information
should be considered with other relevant information in evaluating a
practitioner's credentials.
The reporting forms and the request for information forms (query
forms) are accessed, completed, and submitted to the NPDB
electronically through the NPDB Web site at http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/. All reporting and querying is performed through this
secure Web site. Due to overlap in requirements for the Healthcare
Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB), some of the NPDB's burden
has been subsumed under the HIPDB.
Estimates of Annualized Burden Are as Follows:
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Hours per
Regulation citation Number of Responses per Total response Total burden Wage rate Total cost
respondents respondent responses (min). hours
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60.6(a) Errors & Omissions........... 315 5 1,260 15 315 $25 $7,875.00
60.6(b) Revisions to Action.......... 109 1 109 30 54.5 25 1,362.50
60.7(b) Medical Malpractice Payment 519 29 15,051 45 11,288.25 25 282,206.25
Report..............................
60.8(b) Adverse Action Reports--State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boards..............................
60.11(a)(3) Adverse Action........... 480 2 960 45 720 25 18,000
60.11(c) Requests for Hearings by 0 0 0 480 0 200 0
Entities............................
60.12(a)(1) & (2) Queries by Hospital 5,996 213 1,277,148 5 106,429 25 2,660,725
60.13(a)(1)(i) Disclosure to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hospitals...........................
60.13(a)(1)(ii) Disclosure to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Practitioners (Self Query)..........
60.13(a)(1)(iii) Disclosure to 87 645 56,115 5 4,676.25 25 116,906.25
Licensure Boards....................
60.13(a)(1)(iv) Queries by Non- 7,305 322 2,352,210 5 196,017.5 25 4,900,437.50
Hospital Health Care Entities.......
60.13(a)(i)(v) Queries by Plaintiffs' 5 1 5 30 2.5 200 500.00
Attorneys...........................
60.13(a)(1)(vi) Queries by Non- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hospital Health Care Entities--Peer
Review..............................
60.13(a)(i)(vii) Requests by 20 1 20 30 10 38 380.00
Researchers for Aggregate Data......
60.16(b) Practitioner Places a Report 404 1 404 15 101 45 4,545.00
in Disputed Status..................
60.16(b) Practitioner Statement...... 1,415 1 1,415 45 1,061.25 100 106,125.00
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60.16(b) Practitioner Requests for 27 1 27 480 216 200 43,200.00
Secretarial Review..................
60.3 Entity Registration--Initial.... 1,447 1 1,447 60 1,447 25 36,175
60.3 Entity Registration--Update..... 13,115 1 13,115 5 1,092.92 25 27,323
60.13(a) Authorized Agent 717 1 717 15 179.25 25 4,481.25
Designation--Initial................
60.13(a) Authorized Agent--Update.... 139 1 139 5 11.58 25 289.50
60.14(c) Account Discrepancy Report.. 5 1 5 15 1.25 25 31.25
60.14(c) Electronic Funds Transfer 284 1 284 15 71 25 1,775.00
Authorization.......................
60.3 Entity Reactivation............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Total............................ 32,389 .............. 3,720,431 .............. 323,694.25 .............. 8,212,337.5
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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 [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: June 29, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy Information and Coordination.
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