A Snapshot of a New Bill Facing Higher Education

AT ISSUE: Federal aid for teaching hospitals

GIST: University administrators are clamoring for relief from cuts in the Medicare program that could reduce funds for their teaching hospitals. In response, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, has introduced a bill (S. 2394) that would eliminate the planned cuts in the Medicare Indirect Medical Education payment program for the 2001 and 2002 fiscal years. The program provides support to teaching hospitals to reimburse them

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