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Appendix A: Letter to the Institute of Medicine from the Committee on Ways and Means
Pages 51-53

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... APPENDIX A Letter to the Institute of Medicine from the Committee on Ways and Means 51
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... The proposal provided a broader source of public support for residency training beyond the indirect and direct graduate medical education payments under Medicare. Under this proposal, a total of $13.5 billion would be authorized to be appropriated from general revenues and $30 billion would be transferred from the Medicare trust funds to a new Teaching Hospital and Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund between fiscal years 1997 and 2002.
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... We would like you to recommend a methodology for teaching hospital and graduate medical education and the selection of entities to receive the payments. (Other considerations include consolidations and mergers, the impact on children's hospitals/pediatric medicine, and whether and to what extent payments are being made for graduate training in nonphysician health professions)
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  • medical education
  • trust fund


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