S 1631 IS
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1631
To provide for the payment of the graduate medical education of
certain interns and residents under title XVIII of the Social Security
Act.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 23 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 1999
Mr. CONRAD introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To provide for the payment of the graduate medical education of
certain interns and residents under title XVIII of the Social Security
Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Graduate Medical Education Fair Technical
Amendment Act of 1999'.
SEC. 2. GME PAYMENTS FOR CERTAIN INTERNS AND RESIDENTS.
(a) INDIRECT AND DIRECT MEDICAL EDUCATION- Each limitation regarding the
number of residents or interns for which payment may be made under section
1886 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww) is increased by the number
of applicable residents (as defined in subsection (b)).
(b) APPLICABLE RESIDENT DEFINED- For purposes of this section, the term
`applicable resident' means a resident or intern that--
(1) participated in graduate medical education at a facility of the
Department of Veterans Affairs;
(2) was subsequently transferred on or after January 1, 1997, and before
July 31, 1998, to a hospital and the hospital was not a Department of
Veterans Affairs facility; and
(3) was transferred because the approved medical residency program in
which the resident or intern participated would lose accreditation by the
Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education if such program
continued to train residents at the Department of Veterans Affairs
facility.
(1) IN GENERAL- This section shall take effect as if included in the
enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33; 111 Stat.
251).
(2) RETROACTIVE PAYMENTS- If the Secretary of Health and Human Services
determines that a hospital operating an approved medical residency program
is owed payments as a result of enactment of this section, the Secretary
shall make such payments not later than 60 days after the date of enactment
of this section.
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