II 111th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 830 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 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.

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Short title

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

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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. .