SB262: Revises provisions relating to graduate medical education. (BDR 18-120)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain institutions from eliminating or reducing the size of a program for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships without the approval of the Department of Health and Human Services; transferring the administration of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program and the Account for the Program from the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor to the Department; expanding the purposes for which institutions that provide programs for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships in this State may receive grants under the Program; establishing the criteria for prioritizing the awarding of such grants; requiring the Department to explore ways to use federal financial participation in Medicaid to support graduate medical education; making an appropriation to the Account for the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.