[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5348 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 5348

     To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the 
   application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed 
 ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which 
   payments to hospitals are made under the medicare program for the 
indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields 
                of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2000

 Mr. Pallone 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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the 
   application of the one-year lag in the intern and resident-to-bed 
 ration and the rolling average for the number of residents for which 
   payments to hospitals are made under the medicare program for the 
indirect costs of graduate medical education to residents in the fields 
                of allopathic and osteopathic medicine.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION OF APPLICATION OF REDUCTION OF NUMBERS OF 
              RESIDENTS FOR IME PAYMENTS TO CERTAIN RESIDENTS.

    (a) Medicare IME Rolling Average and IRB Freeze.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1886(d)(5)(B)(vi) of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(B)(vi)) is amended by 
        adding at the end the following: ``The limitation under 
        subclause (I) and the total number determined under subclause 
        (II) shall apply only to residents in the fields of allopathic 
        medicine or osteopathic medicine.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--The heading of section 
        1886(h)(4)(G) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(h)(4)(G)) is 
        amended by inserting ``in allopathic and osteopathic medicine 
        only'' after ``residents and interns''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act 
of 1997 (Public Law 105-33).
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