[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2394 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2394

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2000

  Mr. Moynihan (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Helms, Mr. 
   Kerrey, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Torricelli, Mr. 
 Johnson, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr. Kerry, Mr. DeWine, 
 Mr. Edwards, Mr. Cleland, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Levin, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. 
   Wellstone, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Mikulski, and Mr. Specter) 
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 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.''.
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