S 2057
107th Congress
Senate
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Geriatrics
Geriatric Care Act of 2002
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 21, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 21, 2002
Introduced in Senate
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Plain-English summary
Geriatric Care Act of 2002 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to payments to hospitals, rural health clinics, or Federally qualified health centers for direct graduate medical education costs and the limitation on the number of full-time-equivalent residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine. Provides for the disregard of up to three geriatric residents in applying such limitation.
Amends SSA title XVIII, as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to provide for Medicare coverage of care coordination and assessment services to an individual with a serious and disabling chronic condition.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
2
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2057: Geriatric Care Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-2057/
"S. 2057: Geriatric Care Act of 2002." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-2057/.
S. 2057, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-2057/.
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