Children's Hospitals Education Equity Act

Children's Hospitals Education Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the definition of "children's hospital" for purposes of payments associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs to include a freestanding psychiatric hospital: (1) with 90% or more inpatients under the age of 18; (2) that has its own Medicare provider number as of December 6, 1999; and (3) that has an accredited residency program.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2003 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2003

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to include certain children's 
   psychiatric hospitals under the program of payments to children's 
      hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2009

 Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to include certain children's 
   psychiatric hospitals under the program of payments to children's 
      hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Children's Hospitals Education 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS UNDER THE 
              PROGRAM OF PAYMENTS TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS THAT OPERATE 
              GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    Section 340E(g)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
256e(g)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``means a'' and inserting ``means--
                    ``(A) a'';
            (2) by striking the period and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) a freestanding psychiatric hospital with 90 
                percent or more inpatients under the age of 18, that 
                has its own Medicare provider number as of December 6, 
                1999, and that has an accredited residency program.''.
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