A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise the methodology for computing the additional payment to hospitals for indirect costs of medical education, and to provide an additional payment for hospitals which serve a disproportionate share of low-income or Medicare patients.

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Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for an additional payment amount, in accordance with a specified formula, for hospitals with indirect costs of medical education. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study and report to the Congress on the impact of eliminating the counting of interns and residents assigned to outpatient services of a hospital for purposes of determining a hospital's indirect costs of medical education. Directs the Secretary, for FY 1986 and 1987, to provide for an additional payment amount, in accordance with a specified formula, for hospitals which serve a significantly disproportionate number of low income patients or patients entitled to part A (Hospital Insurance) benefits, and which have 100 beds or more.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 1 August 1985

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