LRB-1345/2
MED:jld:jm
2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Dombrowski, BB0427 - Graduate medical education funding pool
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and Human Services
Health
This bill requires DHS to distribute grants to assist hospitals or groups of hospitals in procuring infrastructure and increasing case volume to the extent necessary to develop accredited graduate medical training programs. The bill requires grant recipients to provide matching funds in an amount determined by DHS and limits the term of a grant to three years.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.435 (1) (fj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (1) (fj) Grants to establish graduate medical training programs. The amounts in the schedule for grants to hospitals under s. 146.63.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 146.63 of the statutes is created to read:
146.63 Grants to establish graduate medical training programs. (1) Definition. In this section, "hospital" has the meaning given under s. 50.33 (2).
(2) Departmental duties. (a) Subject to subs. (4) and (5), the department shall distribute grants from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (fj) to assist hospitals and groups of hospitals in procuring infrastructure and increasing case volume to the extent necessary to develop accredited graduate medical training programs. The department shall distribute the grants under this paragraph to hospitals and groups of hospitals that apply to receive a grant under sub. (3) and that satisfy the criteria established by the department under par. (b).
(b) The department shall establish criteria for approving and distributing grants under par. (a) and criteria for approving plans under sub. (3).
(3) Grant application. A hospital or group of hospitals may apply, in the form and manner determined by the department, to receive a grant under sub. (2) (a). The hospital or group of hospitals shall include in the application a plan to use the funds to procure infrastructure or increase case volume to the extent necessary to develop an accredited graduate medical training program at the hospital or group of hospitals and a plan to satisfy the matching requirement under sub. (4).
(4) Matching funds. The department may not distribute a grant under sub. (2) (a) unless the hospital or group of hospitals offers to provide matching funds in an amount determined by the department.
(5) Term of grants. The department may not distribute a grant under sub. (2) (a) to a hospital or group of hospitals for a term that is more than 3 years.
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