A project supported by: WRMA’s Ryan White Data Systems and Analysis Support team
HRSA HAB selects WRMA once again
to provide technical assistance on its data reporting systems and analyze the resulting data
Client:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Service Areas
Areas of Expertise
Summary
In 2004, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) contracted with WRMA and our subcontractor CSR Inc. to provide technical assistance (TA) to its Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) grantees to aid in the submission and validation of their required reporting data. WRMA won the contract due to our demonstrated expertise in providing TA to government grantees and our knowledge of the RWHAP.
We are proud to announce that WRMA won the contract for the fifth time on Sept. 26, 2022. The new four-year contract comes with a project name change and additional work. Where we were previously the Data Support and Technical Assistance Center (DSTA) project, we are now the Data Systems Support and Analysis project — although the technical assistance center we provide for recipients and providers will still be referred to as “data support.”
The name change does imply new work. In addition to the T/TA services described below, the team will support the preparation and analysis of the data we help the RWHAP recipients and providers to submit. HRSA HAB uses these analyses to report outcomes to Congress, HHS, and stakeholders. We have subcontracted our frequent partner the Mission Analytics Group (Mission) to support the data analysis. We also have a greater role in advising HRSA HAB on how to modify the online data reporting systems each year to make data reporting easier for the recipients and providers, and the data more accurate for HRSA HAB. Finally, WRMA will continue to run and maintain an online Dental Services Report system we designed for HRSA HAB over the past two years. We received a provisional authority to operate (ATO) in late 2021 and will be receiving the full ATO before December of 2022, in time for the system to be open for its second data submission period.
Details
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act was enacted in 1990 to improve access to quality health care and support services for HIV-infected individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS. The act was amended and re-authorized in 1996, 2000, 2006, and most recently in 2009 as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program awards grants to cities, states, and territories that distribute the funds among local health care providers under Parts A and B and to local community-based organizations that focus on early intervention services under Part C and children, infants, youth, and families under Part D. In addition, Part F awards grants for special projects of national significance, AIDS education and training centers, dental programs, and the Minority AIDS Initiative. A major component of Part B is the AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
WRMA, along with its subcontractor, CSR Inc., provides a wide range of technical support to HRSA HAB and its recipients funded under Parts A, B, C, D, and F of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. Under this project, the WRMA team offers training and TA to grantees and their service providers in areas such as data collection, reporting, validation, and verification through telephone and email, at annual in-person training sessions, through regularly scheduled webinars, and at biannual all-recipient meetings. WRMA also supports HRSA HAB in developing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) justification packages for all its information collections and has evaluated selected HRSA HAB cooperative agreement programs.
Currently, the WRMA team provides TA to HRSA HAB and its recipients on nine data reports and systems. These include the:
- Ryan White Services Report (RSR)
- ADAP Data Report (ADR)
- Allocation and Expenditure Reports
- HIV Quality Measures Report (HIVQM)
- Dental Services Report (DSR)
- AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Grant Report
- Ending the HIV Initiative (EHE) Triannual Report
In addition to direct training and TA provided via phone, email, screenshare, and in-person conferences, the team also writes and updates the manuals and other educational materials that accompany each report and conducts webinars that train grantees on each report.
