S 1055
108th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Clinics
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Hospitals
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Law
Liability insurance
Medical malpractice
Physicians
Tax credits
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide physicians and other health care professionals with a tax credit for qualified expenditures for medical professional malpractice insurance, and for other purposes.
Introduced: May 13, 2003
Introduced by:
Durbin, Richard J.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 13, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 13, 2003
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a business tax credit for medical professional malpractice insurance according to the following schedule: (1) 20 percent of expenditures for any physician who practices in any surgical specialty or subspecialty, emergency medicine, obstetrics, anesthesiology, or who does intervention work which is reflected in medical malpractice insurance expenditures; (2) ten percent of expenditures for any physician who practices in general medicine, allergy, dermatology, or pathology; and (3) 15 percent of expenditures for any hospital or clinic.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to eligible nonprofit hospitals and clinics to pay 15 percent of qualified medical malpractice insurance costs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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