US Congress Senate Bill 1300 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 18 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-06-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Community and Rural Medical Residency Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the counting of time spent in outpatient settings by full-time-equivalent residents in approved medical residency training programs, for purposes of indirect medical education (IME) and direct graduate medical education (D-GME) payments. Defines all, or substantially all, of the costs for the training program in that nonhospital setting as the residents' stipends and benefits and other costs, if any, as determined by the training hospital and the entity (wholly owned or operated by the hospital) operating the nonhospital setting. Declares that the hospital is not required to pay the entity any amounts other than those determined by the hospital and the entity in order for the hospital to be considered to have incurred all, or substantially all, of the costs for the training program in that setting.

Community and Rural Medical Residency Preservation Act of 2009

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

Sen. Kent Conrad [D-ND]

Sen. Byron Dorgan [D-ND]

Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-06-18		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/1300/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s1300/BILLS-111s1300is.pdf