I 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2003 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 21, 2009 Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to include certain children’s psychiatric hospitals under the program of payments to children’s hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.

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This Act may be cited as the Children’s Hospitals Education Equity Act.

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Inclusion of certain children’s psychiatric hospitals under the program of payments to children’s hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs

Section 340E(g)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256e(g)) is amended— (1)by striking means a and inserting “means— (A)a ; (2)by striking the period and inserting ; or; and (3)by adding at the end the following: (B)a freestanding psychiatric hospital with 90 percent or more inpatients under the age of 18, that has its own Medicare provider number as of December 6, 1999, and that has an accredited residency program. .