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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which…

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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which payments to hospitals are made under the Medicare Program for the indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.

Introduced: September 29, 2000 Introduced by: Pallone, Frank Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Oct 20, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Oct 6, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 29, 2000
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.
Sep 29, 2000
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Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to limit to residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine the application of the freeze in the intern and resident-to-bed ratio and the rolling average for the number of residents for which Medicare payments are made to hospitals for the indirect costs of graduate medical education.

Makes this Act effective as if included in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33).

What's happening now October 20, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5348: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which payments to hospitals are made under the Medicare Program for the indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5348/
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"H.R. 5348: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which payments to hospitals are made under the Medicare Program for the indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5348/.
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H.R. 5348, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5348/.
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[H.R. 5348: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which payments to hospitals are made under the Medicare Program for the indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.](https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5348/)
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