High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2584
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Case management
Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Family medicine
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Grants-in-aid
Gynecology
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Medical education
Medical fees
Obstetrics
Physicians
Rural health
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Surgeons
Surgery
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to critical shortage health facilities for scholarships to individuals agreeing to serve as a physician at such facility after completing residency in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, or obstetrics-gynecology. Excludes such scholarship funds from an individual's gross income.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to: (1) establish a loan repayment program for individuals agreeing to serve as physicians in specified fields in areas that are not health professional shortage areas, but that have a critical shortage of physicians in such field; (2) make grants to states to provide care management fees to physicians in medically underserved communities to support the provision of targeted, accessible, continuous, coordinated, and patient-centered care through a qualified medical home; and (3) make grants to board-certified entities to establish or expand geriatric fellowship programs to train physicians practicing in rural areas or in specified fields in geriatric medicine. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from an individual's gross income compensation received by a physician from a local government for medical care performed: (1) in a medically underserved community; and (2) under a contract with the local government for a period of not less than four years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1149-1155)
action_date: 2007-09-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10062-10065)
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4168-4173)