Health Professions Training Assistance Amendments of 1984

Summary

Health Professions Training Assistance Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the following through FY 1988: (1) the Federal health education assistance loan insurance program; (2) health professions student loans; (3) scholarships for students of exceptional financial need; (4) medical school departments of family medicine; (5) area health education centers; (6) training of physician assistants; (7) training programs in general internal medicine and general pediatrics; (8) training programs in family medicine and general practice of dentistry; (9) educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; (10) conversion and curriculum grants; (11) advanced financial distress assistance; (12) graduate programs in health administration; (13) public health traineeships; (14) training in preventive medicine; (14) the National Center for Health Services Research; (15) the National Center for Health Statistics; and (16) traineeships for students in other graduate programs. Title II: Program Revisions - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include schools of chiropractic as health professional schools eligible to participate in educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Amends the definition of physician assistants to require an individual trained as such to be qualified to provide primary health care under the supervision of a physician and to have training in disease prevention, health promotion, geriatric medicine and home health care. Includes colleges and institutions providing additional training in a science related to health care within the definition of school of allied health. Provides for a definition of allied health professionals which includes individuals with postbaccalaureate training in a science related to health care. Includes an individual representing one of the allied health professional educational programs on the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. Defines the term "graduate program in clinical psychology" for the purposes of such Act. Makes such a program eligible to participate in educational assistance programs to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to assist in the acquisition of equipment and instrumentation for teaching facilities. Limits the deferral of interest and principal payments on health education assistance loans to a maximum period of four years internship and residency after the completion of medical school. Eliminates the two percent ceiling on the insurance premium. Permits funds in the student loan insurance fund to be used for collection of defaults. Makes students in schools of allied health eligible for student loans. Ends Federal reimbursement of a school for its capital contribution to the health professions student loan program if the borrower becomes unable to repay the debt. Permits schools with federally funded student loan programs to charge borrowers an insurance premium against cancellation of liability. Revises the procedure for determining the amount a school may assess for failure of a borrower to pay all or any part of an assessment. Authorizes Federal assistance in collecting a loan in default if the school has previously exercised all due diligence in attempting to collect the loan. Permits the salary of a Federal employee who has defaulted on a student loan to be withheld. Limits Federal capital contributions to student loan programs to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, optometry, or veterinary medicine that established student loan funds with Federal capital contributions after July 1, 1972. Provides that if any such school reduces its enrollment significantly, or closes, any excess cash balance in the student loan fund shall be returned and allocated to schools with deficient loan funds. Sets forth a formula for making annual grants to schools of public health for support of educational programs taking into consideration full-time and full-time equivalents of part-time students. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 1988. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Eliminates the requirement that area health education centers provide training for physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Permits approved advanced educational programs in the general practice of dentistry in nonhospital based training programs. Sets forth the health priorities for curriculum development projects for health, health profession and allied health profession schools. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assist State and local health agencies in health services research including the establishment of a user liaison program and a technical assistance program. Repeals provisions of such Act referring to certain expired programs. Requires the Secretary to study financial disincentives to graduates of health professions schools affecting the specialty of practice chosen by such graduates or their decision to practice in an area which lacks an adequate number of health care professionals. Directs the Secretary to make recommendations for legislation and administrative action to correct any disincentive identified.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 28 June 1984

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 25 May 1984

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 11 April 1984

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