A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit States, as a condition of medicaid funding, from discriminating in its medical reciprocity standards (other than years of accredited graduate medical education) against foreign medical graduates.
Fair Physician Reciprocity Standards Act of 1987 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prohibit State physician licensure reciprocity standards from discriminating against foreign medical graduates. Authorizes States to require foreign medical graduates to have more years of accredited graduate medical education than licensed physicians who are not foreign medical graduates, provided such required accredited graduate medical education does not exceed three years.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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