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HR 6515 114th Congress House

Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016

Official title: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to clarify the application of the rule for counting resident time in nonprovider settings.

Introduced: December 8, 2016 See on congress.gov
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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.
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 Latest action December 8, 2016

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.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016

This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to specify that a certain Medicare rule for counting resident time in nonprovider settings shall not be applied in a manner that requires the reopening of any settled hospital cost reports except where there was a jurisdictionally proper appeal pending as of March 23, 2010. The bill applies retroactively.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 1
Bridenstine, Jim
· Dec 8, 2016
Messer, Luke
· Dec 8, 2016
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Stutzman, Marlin A.
Indiana · Dec 8, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6515: Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6515/
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"H.R. 6515: Fairness to Teaching Hospitals Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6515/.
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H.R. 6515, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6515/.
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