[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4239 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4239

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize indirect 
                  graduate medical education payments.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2000

Mr. Rangel (for himself, Mr. Weygand, Mr. Moakley, Mr. McDermott, Mrs. 
     Thurman, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, and Mr. Neal of Massachusetts) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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   

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize indirect 
                  graduate medical education payments.

    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 ``Teaching Hospital Preservation Act 
of 2000''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF REDUCTION OF INDIRECT GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
              PAYMENTS.

    Section 1886(d)(5)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(d)(5)(B)(ii)) (as amended by section 111(a) of the Medicare, 
Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (113 Stat. 
1501A-329), as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(6) of Public Law 
106-113) is amended--
            (1) in subclause (IV), by adding ``and'' at the end; and
            (2) by striking subclauses (V) and (VI) and inserting the 
        following:
                            ``(V) on or after October 1, 2000, `c' is 
                        equal to 1.6.''.
                                 <all>