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S 455 115th Congress Senate

Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count resident time spent in a critical access hospital as resident time spent in a nonprovider setti… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count resident time spent in a critical access hospital as resident time spent in a nonprovider setting for purposes of making Medicare direct and indirect graduate medical education payments.

Introduced: May 17, 2017 See on congress.gov
Health Education programs fundingHealth care coverage and accessHospital careMedical education
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MedicareRural conditions and development
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 Latest action February 27, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reimburse medical residency training programs under Medicare for certain graduate medical education costs associated with resident time spent in rural community hospitals known as "critical access hospitals."

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Independent 1
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Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · May 17, 2017
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Apr 24, 2017
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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Mar 2, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 455: Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-455/
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"S. 455: Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-455/.
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S. 455, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-455/.
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