S 588
110th Congress
Senate
Health
Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Social Welfare
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007
Introduced: February 14, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 14, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1968-1969)
Feb 14, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1968)
Feb 14, 2007
Introduced in Senate
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1968-1969)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1