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All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act of 2001

Introduced: June 14, 2001 See on congress.gov
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Jun 25, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jun 21, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 14, 2001
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 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.
Jun 14, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1115)
Jun 14, 2001
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Health Care Workforce Trust Fund to provide for the financing of graduate medical education. Appropriates to the Fund amounts from: (1) specified fees imposed on health insurance and health-related administrative services; (2) the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund; and (3) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

Provides for payments to eligible teaching hospitals.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions concerning the formula for graduate medical education costs.

Excepts rural and underserved urban areas from certain limitations on the number of medical residents.

Requires a plan to reduce medical residency training positions in the United States to 110 percent of the annual number of students graduating from a U.S. medical school.

Modifies specified Medicare payments for the indirect costs of graduate medical education (IME) and disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals.

Requires the Secretary to develop a plan followed by the making of payments to support institutions providing graduate medical education to non-physician health professionals.

What's happening now June 25, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1