A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for full payment rates under Medicare to hospitals for costs of direct graduate medical education of residents for residency training programs in specialties or subspecialties which the Secretary of Health and Human Services designates as critical need specialty or subspecialty training programs
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce
Publisher: United States Government Printing Office
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: United States; Residents (Medicine); Finance; Federal aid to hospitals; Law and legislation; Study and teaching (Graduate); United States. Department of Health and Human Services; Training of; Medicare; Specialties and specialists; Medicine; Federal aid to medical education
Other titles: Medicare Critical Need GME Protection Act of 1999.; 106th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 1645 in the House of Representatives.; To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for full payment rates under Medicare to hospitals for costs of direct graduate medical education of residents for residency training programs in specialties or subspecialties which the Secretary of Health and Human Services designates as critical need specialty or subspecialty training programs.
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Introduced April 29, 1999; referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and Committee on Commerce.

CMS copy in folder: Public Laws: Bill / House / 106th Congress / 1st Session / 1999 / File 3.