To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for demonstration programs for joint nursing undergraduate education under which the costs incurred by a hospital under such a program shall be allowable as reasonable costs under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to clarify such title to permit a nursing education program operated by a corporation under common control with a hospital to be treated as approved educational activities of such hospital.
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Apr 18, 1989)
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration programs in each of 20 hospitals under which each hospital receives Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) reimbursement of its reasonable costs incurred pursuant to a written agreement with an educational institution to provide training to undergraduates as part of an approved education program that leads to a bachelor's degree in nursing. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress by January 1, 1993, on the demonstration programs and the supply and characteristics of nurses trained under such programs.
Amends the Medicare program to state that nursing education programs operated by corporations controlled by, or under common control with, the hospital may be treated as approved educational activities of such hospital.
What just happenedMay 8, 1989
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Who’s behind it
- May 8, 1989CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Apr 24, 1989CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Apr 18, 1989IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Apr 18, 1989IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Ways and Means Committee - Apr 18, 1989IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Apr 18, 1989IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House