The Children's Hospitals Graduate
Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program was enacted by Public Law
106-129 to provide federal support for graduate medical education
(GME) to freestanding children's hospitals. This legislation
attempts to provide support for GME comparable to the level of
Medicare GME support received by other, non-children's hospitals.
The legislation requires that eligible children's hospitals receive
payments for both direct and indirect medical education expenses.
Payments for direct expenses offset the expenses associated with
operating approved graduate medical residency training programs,
and payments for indirect expenses compensate hospitals for
expenses associated with the treatment of more severely ill
patients and the additional costs relating to teaching residents in
such programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
issued a final rule in the Federal Register regarding Sections
5503, 5504, 5505 and 5506 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010,
Public Law 111-148, on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. This final
rule included policy changes on counting resident time in
non-provider settings, counting resident time for didactic training
and the redistribution of resident caps, which required
modification of the data collection forms within the CHGME Payment
Program application. The necessary modifications were made and
received OMB clearance on June 30, 2012. In addition, on September
30, 2013, CMS published revised cost report forms on their Web
site, specifically form CMS 2552-10, Worksheet E-4, requiring
modification of the data collection forms in the CHGME Payment
Program application. Furthermore, the inclusion of forms and
documentation requests used to collect data from the fiscal
intermediaries that audit the children's hospitals as part of a
contract with the CHGME program. These changes require OMB
approval.
In the previous information
collection request there was an estimated total of 3,729.6 burden
hours. We are now requesting a total of 5,903.4 hours, which is an
increase of 2173.8 burden hours. The increase in total burden hours
results from minor revisions made to the CHGME Payment Program
application forms to accommodate changes required by the Affordable
Care Act, in particular revisions implemented related to the CMS
Form 2552-10, which is used as part of the CHGME Payment Program
application. In addition, increase in total burden hours results
from the addition of the forms and documentation used to collect
data from the fiscal intermediaries that audit the children's
hospitals as part of a contract the CHGME program currently has to
assess the FTE resident counts reported by the children's hospitals
and used to calculate payment. The information requested in not a
new requirement for the fiscal intermediaries and has been a part
of the CHGME application process, particularly with reconciliation
requirements, for over ten years. However the CHGME program now
understands although the data is a deliverable within the contract
approval is needed to collect the data. Furthermore, the CHGME
application is integrated with HRSA's EHB system which requires
adjustments to certain data fields to comply with system
requirements and HRSA's standards for all grant programs
functioning within the EHB.
$8,566
No
No
Yes
No
No
Uncollected
Jodi Duckhorn 301
443-1984
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.