All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Care Workforce Trust Fund; Payments to Teaching Hospitals Subtitle A: Establishment and Financing of Fund Subtitle B: Additional Payments to Teaching Hospitals Subtitle C: Conforming Changes in Medicare Payment for Direct Costs of Graduate Medical Education Title II: Health Workforce Priorities Title III: Modification in Medicare Payment for IME and DSH Title IV: Additional Payments for Graduate Education for Non-Physician Health Professionals All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act - Title I: Health Care Workforce Trust Fund; Payments to Teaching Hospitals - Subtitle A: Establishment and Financing of Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Health Care Workforce Trust Fund to provide for the financing of graduate medical education. Appropriates to the Fund amounts from: (1) specified fees imposed on health insurance; (2) the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund; and (3) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Subtitle B: Additional Payments to Teaching Hospitals - Provides for payments to eligible teaching hospitals. Requires a study. Subtitle C: Conforming Changes in Medicare Payment for Direct Costs of Graduate Medical Education - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions concerning the formula for graduate medical education costs. Title II: Health Workforce Priorities - Requires a plan to reduce medical residency training positions. Title III: Modification in Medicare Payment for IME and DSH - Modifies specified Medicare payments. Title IV: Additional Payments for Graduate Education for Non- Physician Health Professionals - Requires a plan followed by the making of payments to support institutions providing graduate medical education to non-physician health professionals.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 8 October 1998

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