Newly-Released Form 5B Tools (From HRSA)

HRSA ComplianceGovernance/Admin ComplianceFTCA
Written By Kyle Vath

In early August, 2021, HRSA released the Form 5B Scope Accuracy Worksheet and the Instructions for Form 5B: Service Sites webpage.

These tools are intended to be used when completing new service site requests or other Form 5B changes. According to HRSA, updates include:

  • Clarification on which submission process in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) a health center will use to update each field on Form 5B: (Formal Change In Scope (CIS), Scope Adjustment CIS, Self-update).

  • Simplified directions on recording suites, floors, or buildings on Form 5B.

  • Subrecipient language to more closely align with 45 CFR 75.

The 5B Scope Accuracy Worksheet was created to help facilitate scope accuracy conversations between health centers and their Project Officers. If you have an upcoming OSV, we recommend you review these documents and then contact your Project Officer to discuss together.

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Kyle Vath

Kyle Vath, BSN, MHA, RN: Kyle Vath is the CEO and co-founder of RegLantern, a company that provides tools and services to health centers that help them move to continual compliance. These services include mock site surveys and web-based tools that allow health centers to organize their compliance documentation. Kyle has served in a wide range of healthcare settings including serving as the Director of Operations for Social Ministries for a large health system, Provider Relations for a health system-owned payer, the Director of Operations for a Federally-Qualified Health Center, long-term care (as a nursing manager, director of nursing, and licensed nursing home administrator), in acute care (as a critical care nurse), and in Tanzania, East Africa as a hospital administrator of a rural mission hospital.

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