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Week Ending July 29, 2005

S 285 A bill to reauthorize the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program.

BRIEF

  The bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to children's hospitals for expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs. The funds would be authorized through 2010 to be used for direct and indirect expenses of operating a graduate medical residency training program in perinatal hospitals. The program matches others that provide funds for other graduate medical training.

  A provision was added that would adjust how much is paid to the student depending on comparable wages in the area of the hospital where they work.

Sponsor: Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-MO)

Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent (July 27, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: $330 million is authorized for 2006 and such sums as may be necessary through 2010. “CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost $248 million in 2006 and $1.6 billion over the 2006-2010 period, assuming the appropriation of the necessary amounts.”

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