S. 285 · 109th Congress
Children's Hospitals Educational Equity and Research Act
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- Senate Introduced Feb 3, 2005
- Senate Passed Jul 26, 2005
Children's Hospitals Educational Equity and Research Act or the CHEER Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments through FY2010 (currently, through FY2005) to children's hospitals for expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs.
What it does: CRS summary · Passed Senate amended · Jul 26, 2005
Children's Hospitals Educational Equity and Research Act or the CHEER Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments through FY2010 (currently, through FY2005) to children's hospitals for expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs.
Excludes reductions for unused resident positions when calculating the number of full-time residents in a children's hospital's approved training program for purposes of reimbursing direct expenses.
Requires the Secretary to adjust the proportion of such a hospital's costs attributable to wages for differences in hospital wage levels by geographic area.
Authorizes appropriations through FY2010 for direct and indirect expenses associated with operating such programs.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) perinatal hospitals play an important role in providing quality care and ensuring the best possible outcomes for thousands of seriously ill newborns each year; and (2) medical training programs at perinatal hospitals give providers essential training in treating healthy mothers and babies as well as patients in neonatal intensive care units.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: CHEER Act
Latest action (Aug 5, 2005): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 3, 2005
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- Senate Introduced Feb 3, 2005
- Senate Passed Jul 26, 2005
No recorded floor vote found.