[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2056 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2056

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial 
  stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident 
                              physicians.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2007

Mr. Rockefeller (for himself, Mr. Kyl, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Vitter, Ms. 
 Snowe, Mr. Coburn, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Coleman, 
    Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Cochran, and Mr. Lott) 
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 restore financial 
  stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident 
                              physicians.

    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 ``Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching 
Funding Restoration Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL PAYMENT RULE FOR TEACHING ANESTHESIOLOGISTS.

    Section 1848(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4)(A), by inserting ``except as provided 
        in paragraph (5),'' after ``anesthesia cases,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Special rule for teaching anesthesiologists.--With 
        respect to physicians' services furnished on or after January 
        1, 2008, in the case of teaching anesthesiologists involved in 
        the training of physician residents in a single anesthesia case 
        or two concurrent anesthesia cases, the fee schedule amount to 
        be applied shall be 100 percent of the fee schedule amount 
        otherwise applicable under this section if the anesthesia 
        services were personally performed by the teaching 
        anesthesiologist alone and paragraph (4) shall not apply if--
                    ``(A) the teaching anesthesiologist is present 
                during all critical or key portions of the anesthesia 
                service or procedure involved; and
                    ``(B) the teaching anesthesiologist (or another 
                anesthesiologist with whom the teaching 
                anesthesiologist has entered into an arrangement) is 
                immediately available to furnish anesthesia services 
                during the entire procedure.''.
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