Congress 108 - HR 1515 - To provide for reimbursement for unreimbursed costs of emergency medical care for aliens paroled into the United States for medical reasons.

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Aliens Collection of accounts Crime and Law Enforcement Economics and Public Finance Emergency medicine Federal aid to health facilities Finance and Financial Sector Health Health insurance Hospital rates Hospitals Immigration Medicaid Medical fees Medical tests Physical examinations Physicians Social Welfare

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Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is within the responsibility of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security to track medical parolees entering the United States for specified humanitarian reasons, and to ensure that these individuals depart the United States upon completion of their trip.

Directs the Secretary to reimburse hospitals and other emergency medical care providers (including physicians and entities providing emergency ambulance services) for their reasonable costs of providing emergency medical care to aliens who are paroled into the United States for medical reasons.

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Apr 10, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 31, 2003

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 31, 2003

Introduced in House

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