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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 38 / Monday, March 1, 2021 / Notices
++ Determine the adequacy of ACHCs staff and other resources.
++ Confirm ACHCs ability to provide adequate funding for performing required surveys.
++ Confirm ACHCs policies with respect to surveys being unannounced.
++ Confirm ACHCs policies and procedures to avoid conflicts of interest, including the appearance of conflicts of interest, involving individuals who conduct surveys or participate in accreditation decisions.
++ Obtain ACHCs agreement to provide CMS with a copy of the most current accreditation survey together with any other information related to the survey as we may require, including corrective action plans.
In accordance with section 1865a3A of the Act, the September 28, 2020 proposed notice also solicited public comments regarding whether ACHCs requirements met or exceeded the Medicare CoPs for HHAs. No comments were received in response to our proposed notice.
IV. Provisions of the Final Notice A. Differences Between ACHCs Standards and Requirements for Accreditation and Medicare Conditions and Survey Requirements We compared ACHCs HHA
accreditation requirements and survey process with the Medicare CoPs of parts 409 and 484, and the survey and certification process requirements of parts 488 and 489. Our review and evaluation of ACHCs HHA application, which were conducted as described in section III. of this final notice, yielded the following areas where, as of the date of this notice, ACHC has completed revising its standards and certification processes in order to meet the following requirements:
Section 484.102b to include the requirement to review and update emergency preparedness policies and procedures at least every 2 years.
Section 484.105b1i to ensure that the administrator is appointed by and reports to the governing body.
Section 488.26b to ensure surveyor documentation relating to noncompliance with particular Medicare conditions reflects the manner and degree of non-compliance, cited at the appropriate level that is, condition versus standard level.
Section 488.5a4vii to describe ACHCs procedures and timelines for monitoring providers or suppliers correction of identified non-compliance with relevant standards, including the criteria ACHC uses to determine when a desk review versus an on-site review
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would be acceptable for monitoring the correction of non-compliance.
B. Term of Approval Based on our review and observations described in section III. of this final notice, we approve ACHC as a national accreditation organization for HHAs that request participation in the Medicare program, effective February 24, 2021
through February 24, 2025.
V. Collection of Information Requirements This document does not impose information collection requirements, that is, reporting recordkeeping or thirdparty disclosure requirements.
Consequently, there is no need for review by the Office of Management and Budget under the authority of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq..
The Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS, Elizabeth Richter, having reviewed and approved this document, authorizes Lynette Wilson, who is the Federal Register Liaison, to electronically sign this document for purposes of publication in the Federal Register.
Dated: February 24, 2021.
Lynette Wilson, Federal Register Liaison, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection New Collection Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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The Administration for Children and Families ACF, Office of Family Assistance OFA has had administrative responsibility for federal funding of programs that strengthen families through healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programming since 2006, through the Healthy Marriage HM and Responsible Fatherhood RF Grant Programs. ACF required the 2015 cohort of HMRF granteeswhich received 5-

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year grants in September 2015to collect and report performance measures about program operations, services, and clients served OMB
09700460. A performance measures data collection system called nFORM
Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management was implemented with the 2015 cohort to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and the quality of data.
This system allows for streamlined and standardized submission of grantee performance data through regular progress reports and supports granteeled and federal research projects. ACF
will continue performance measure and other data collection activities for the HMRF grant program with a new cohort of grantees who received 5-year awards in September 2020. ACF is requesting comment on a new data collection to support these activities with the 2020
HMRF grantee cohort. ACF has made changes to the previous cohorts data collection instruments and performance reports for use in the new cohort. This new grantee cohort is expected to begin collecting performance measure data and reporting to ACF in April 2021.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a decision about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.
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 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ACF proposes to collect a set of performance measures from all HMRF grantees. These measures collect standardized information in the following areas:
Applicant characteristics;
Program operations;
Service delivery; and Participant outcomes:
Entrance survey, with five versions:
1 HM Program Entrance Survey for Adult-Focused Programs; 2 HM
Program Entrance Survey for YouthFocused Programs; 3 RF Program Entrance Survey for Community-Based Fathers; 4 RF Program Entrance Survey for Community-Based Mothers; and 5
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