[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 830 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 830

To modify the definition of children's hospital for purposes of making 
    payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 20, 2009

Mr. Whitehouse introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To modify the definition of children's hospital for purposes of making 
    payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.

    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 ``Children's Hospitals Education 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. 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.''.
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