13-1540/P2

LRB-1540/P2

MED:eev:rs

2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE

DOA:......Gauger, BB0450 - Graduate medical education funding grants

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 with maintaining accredited graduate medical training programs. The bill limits eligibility for the grants to hospitals that have accredited graduate medical training programs in family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery, or internal medicine. The bill provides that DHS may not award more than $50,000 to a hospital in a given state fiscal year, except that DHS must also award hospitals additional, federal matching funds if DHS receives federal funds for that purpose.

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 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

20.435 (4) (b) Medical Assistance program benefits. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule to provide a portion of the state share of Medical Assistance program benefits administered under subch. IV of ch. 49, for a portion of the Badger Care health care program under s. 49.665, to provide a portion of the Medical Assistance program benefits administered under subch. IV of ch. 49 that are not also provided under par. (o), to fund the pilot project under s. 46.27 (9) and (10), to provide a portion of the facility payments under 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9123 (9m), to fund services provided by resource centers under s. 46.283, for services under the family care benefit under s. 46.284 (5), for assisting victims of diseases, as provided in ss. 49.68, 49.683, and 49.685, for distributing grants under s. 146.64, and for reduction of any operating deficits as specified in 2005 Wisconsin Act 15, section 3. Notwithstanding s. 20.002 (1), the department may transfer from this appropriation account to the appropriation account under sub. (5) (kc) funds in the amount of and for the purposes specified in s. 46.485. Notwithstanding ss. 20.001 (3) (b) and 20.002 (1), the department may credit or deposit into this appropriation account and may transfer between fiscal years funds that it transfers from the appropriation account under sub. (5) (kc) for the purposes specified in s. 46.485 (3r). Notwithstanding s. 20.002 (1), the department may transfer from this appropriation account to the appropriation account under sub. (7) (bd) funds in the amount and for the purposes specified in s. 49.45 (6v).

Section 2. 146.64 of the statutes is created to read:

146.64 Grants to support 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 par. (c) and sub. (4), the department shall distribute grants to assist hospitals with maintaining accredited graduate medical training programs. The department shall distribute the grants under this paragraph to hospitals that apply to receive a grant under sub. (3) and that satisfy the criteria established by the department under par. (b) and the eligibility requirement under sub. (4).

(b) The department shall establish criteria for approving and distributing grants under par. (a).

(c) 1. The department shall distribute funds for grants under par. (a) from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (b). The department may not distribute more than $50,000 from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (b) to a particular hospital in a given state fiscal year.

2. If the department receives matching federal medical assistance funds, the department shall distribute those funds for grants under par. (a) in addition to any funds distributed under subd. 1.

(d) The department shall seek federal medical assistance funds to match the grants distributed under par. (a). If the department receives those funds, the department shall distribute them as provided in par. (c) 2.

(3) Grant application. A hospital may apply, in the form and manner determined by the department, to receive a grant under sub. (2) (a).

(4) Eligibility. A hospital that has an accredited graduate medical training program in any of the following specialties may apply to receive a grant under sub. (3):

(a) Family medicine.

(b) Pediatrics.

(d) General surgery.

(e) Internal medicine.

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