HR 1093
110th Congress
House
Health
Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Social Welfare
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007
Introduced: February 15, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 27, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 16, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 15, 2007
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.
Feb 15, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase, over five cost reporting periods, the Medicare caps on the total number of full-time equivalent residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine (graduate medical education (GME) positions) for states with a shortage of residents.
Requires the aggregate number of such increases for a state to be at least 15, but no more than the state resident cap increase.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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