HR 3940
105th Congress
House
Health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to medical education
Graduate education
Higher education
Hospital rates
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Physicians
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Social Welfare
Medicare Critical Need GME Protection Act of 1998
Introduced: May 21, 1998
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7 steps
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Jun 5, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jun 1, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 21, 1998
Referred to House Commerce
May 21, 1998
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 21, 1998
Referred to House Ways and Means
May 21, 1998
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E932)
May 21, 1998
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Critical Need GME Protection Act of 1998 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for full payment to hospitals for costs of direct graduate medical education of residents for training in what the Secretary of Health and Human Services designates as a critical need specialty or subspecialty training program. States that such training shall be treated as part of the initial residency period, but shall not be counted against any limitation on the initial residency period.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
1