LRB-1553/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0392 - Medicaid Graduate Medical Education Grant
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Medical Assistance
Graduate medical education grants
This bill extends from three years to five years the maximum term for grants awarded by DHS to assist rural hospitals and groups of rural hospitals in procuring infrastructure and increasing case volume to develop accredited graduate medical training programs. The bill also increases the maximum amounts that DHS may award each fiscal year in grants to hospitals to support existing graduate medical training programs. Under current law, DHS may not distribute more than $225,000 to a particular hospital or more than $75,000 to fund an individual position in an existing graduate medical training program during a given fiscal year. The bill increases those limits to $450,000 and $150,000 per fiscal year, respectively.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 146.63 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
146.63 (5) Term of grants. The department may not distribute a grant under sub. (2) (a) to a rural hospital or group of rural hospitals for a term that is more than 3 5 years.
Section
2. 146.64 (2) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
146.64 (2) (c) 1. The department shall distribute funds for grants under par. (a) from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (bf). The department may not distribute more than $225,000 $450,000 from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (bf) to a particular hospital in a given state fiscal year and may not distribute more than $75,000 $150,000 from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (bf) to fund a given position in a graduate medical training program in a given state fiscal year.
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