A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide physicians and other health care professionals with a tax credit for qualified expenditures for medical professional malpractice insurance, and for other purposes.

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Introduced

13 May 2003

Last action

13 May 2003 · Introduced

Status

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summary

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a business tax credit for medical professional malpractice insurance according to the following schedule: (1) 20 percent of expenditures for any physician who practices in any surgical specialty or subspecialty, emergency medicine, obstetrics, anesthesiology, or who does intervention work which is reflected in medical malpractice insurance expenditures; (2) ten percent of expenditures for any physician who practices in general medicine, allergy, dermatology, or pathology; and (3) 15 percent of expenditures for any hospital or clinic. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to eligible nonprofit hospitals and clinics to pay 15 percent of qualified medical malpractice insurance costs.

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Timeline

13 May 2003
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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13 May 2003
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1055
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us · 108-s-1055 · source updated 7 April 2025