[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 637 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 637

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to continue full-time-
  equivalent resident reimbursement for an additional one year under 
 medicare for direct graduate medical education for residents enrolled 
 in combined approved primary care medical residency training programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 23, 1997

  Mr. DeWine introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to continue full-time-
  equivalent resident reimbursement for an additional one year under 
 medicare for direct graduate medical education for residents enrolled 
 in combined approved primary care medical residency training programs.

    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 ``Primary Care Promotion Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. MEDICARE SPECIAL REIMBURSEMENT RULE FOR PRIMARY CARE COMBINED 
              RESIDENCY PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1886(h)(5)(G) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395ww(h)(5)(G)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``and (iii)'' and inserting 
        ``, (iii), and (iv)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) Special rule for primary care 
                        combined residency programs.--(I) In the case 
                        of a resident enrolled in a combined medical 
                        residency training program in which all of the 
                        individual programs (that are combined) are for 
                        training a primary care resident (as defined in 
                        subparagraph (H)), the period of board 
                        eligibility shall be the minimum number of 
                        years of formal training required to satisfy 
                        the requirements for initial board eligibility 
                        in the longest of the individual programs plus 
                        one additional year.
                            ``(II) A resident enrolled in a combined 
                        medical residency training program that 
                        includes an obstetrics and gynecology program 
                        qualifies for the period of board eligibility 
                        under subclause (I) if the other programs such 
                        resident combines with such obstetrics and 
                        gynecology program are for training a primary 
                        care resident.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to 
combined medical residency training programs in effect on or after July 
1, 1996.
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