3.0.0 3727 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z Senate S S 2006-07-25 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-07-25T20:09:44Z Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 109 5935 HR 2006-07-27 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Related bill CRS 2006-07-25 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8201-8202) IntroReferral 2006-07-25 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8201) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-07-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. N F000061 Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] RUSSELL FEINGOLD D WI D. 2006-09-21 False Health Economics and Public Finance Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Higher education Hospital care Hospitals Housing and Community Development Medical education Medical residents Medicare Rural health Social Welfare Health 00 2006-07-25 Introduced in Senate 2006-09-06T17:28:58Z Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payments to hospitals for the direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs of inpatient hospital services, particularly the redistribution among qualifying hospitals of unused resident positions which figure in the calculation of DGME costs.

Requires a specified adjustment to the reduction of Medicare resident positions for rural and small urban hospitals, where that reduction was based on a cost report subsequently settled, whether as a result of an appeal or otherwise, if the reference resident level under such settled cost report is higher than the resident level used for the reduction.

]]> Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 Display Title Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an adjustment to the reduction of Medicare resident positions based on settled cost reports. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-07-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s3727is/xml/BILLS-109s3727is.xml 2006-07-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8201-8202) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.