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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Apr 11, 2000
Teaching Hospital Preservation Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise a certain formula pertaining to additional payments to hospitals with indirect costs of medical education to maintain the value of a certain variable used in the indirect teaching adjustment factor at the FY 1999 level on or after October 1, 2000. (Current law requires a lesser value for such variable in FY 2001 and thereafter.)
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Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D–NY
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2534)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2534)
Introduced in Senate
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