Fair Physician Reciprocity Standards Act of 1989
Official title: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit States, as a condition of medicaid funding, from discriminating in its medical reciprocity standards … Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit States, as a condition of medicaid funding, from discriminating in its medical reciprocity standards (other than years of accredited gratuate medical education) against foreign medical graduates.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Fair Physician Reciprocity Standards Act of 1989 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prohibit State physician licensure reciprocity standards from discriminating against foreign medical graduates. Authorizes States to require foreign medical graduates to have more years of accredited graduate medical education than licensed physicians who are not foreign medical graduates, provided such required accredited graduate medical education does not exceed three years.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1134: Fair Physician Reciprocity Standards Act of 1989. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1134/
"H.R. 1134: Fair Physician Reciprocity Standards Act of 1989." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1134/.
H.R. 1134, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1134/.
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