[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1631 Introduced in Senate (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.


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                   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

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                                 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.
    (c) Effective Date.--
            (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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