All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Oct 8, 1998)
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Health Care Workforce Trust Fund; Payments to
Teaching Hospitals
Subtitle A: Establishment and Financing of Fund
Subtitle B: Additional Payments to Teaching Hospitals
Subtitle C: Conforming Changes in Medicare Payment for
Direct Costs of Graduate Medical Education
Title II: Health Workforce Priorities
Title III: Modification in Medicare Payment for IME and DSH
Title IV: Additional Payments for Graduate Education for
Non-Physician Health Professionals
All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act - Title I: Health Care Workforce Trust Fund; Payments to Teaching Hospitals - Subtitle A: Establishment and Financing of Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Health Care Workforce Trust Fund to provide for the financing of graduate medical education. Appropriates to the Fund amounts from: (1) specified fees imposed on health insurance; (2) the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund; and (3) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
Subtitle B: Additional Payments to Teaching Hospitals - Provides for payments to eligible teaching hospitals. Requires a study.
Subtitle C: Conforming Changes in Medicare Payment for Direct Costs of Graduate Medical Education - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions concerning the formula for graduate medical education costs.
Title II: Health Workforce Priorities - Requires a plan to reduce medical residency training positions.
Title III: Modification in Medicare Payment for IME and DSH - Modifies specified Medicare payments.
Title IV: Additional Payments for Graduate Education for Non- Physician Health Professionals - Requires a plan followed by the making of payments to support institutions providing graduate medical education to non-physician health professionals.
What just happenedOct 20, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseOct 8, 1998
- Oct 20, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Oct 9, 1998IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2005)
- Oct 8, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Oct 8, 1998IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
- Oct 8, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee - Oct 8, 1998IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Oct 8, 1998IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House