All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act of 2001
Latest action · Jun 25, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 14, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Provides for payments to eligible teaching hospitals.
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions concerning the formula for graduate medical education costs.
Excepts rural and underserved urban areas from certain limitations on the number of medical residents.
Requires a plan to reduce medical residency training positions in the United States to 110 percent of the annual number of students graduating from a U.S. medical school.
Modifies specified Medicare payments for the indirect costs of graduate medical education (IME) and disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals.
Requires the Secretary to develop a plan followed by the making of payments to support institutions providing graduate medical education to non-physician health professionals.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 14, 2001 to Sep 24, 2002; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-WI | Gerald D. Kleczka | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-FL | Karen L. Thurman | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-TX | Ken Bentsen | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-PA | William J. Coyne | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Jun 21, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Jul 10, 2001 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Jul 10, 2001 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Jul 17, 2001 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 21, 2001 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 25, 2001 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Jun 21, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 14, 2001Introduced in House
- Jun 14, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1115)
- Jun 14, 2001Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E1115 | Benjamin L. Cardin D-MD | Jun 14, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for comprehensive financing for graduate medical education.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- All-Payer Graduate Medical Education Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee health benefits
- Federal aid to hospitals
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal employees
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fringe benefits
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health insurance
- Health insurance industry
- Health maintenance organizations
- Higher education
- Hospital rates
- Housing and Community Development
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Managed care
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medical records
- Medical residents
- Medicare
- Medicare managed care
- Physicians
- Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
- Quality of care
- Rural hospitals
- Salaries
- Self-insurance
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Teaching hospitals
- Urban affairs
- Urban areas
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 14, 2001Introduced in House
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