Iowa 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Passed House

HF 852 — A bill for an act relating to the payment of resident physician medical liability insurance premiums for accredited graduate medical education programs. (Formerly HF 763, HF 436.)

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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House File 852 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 852 BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (SUCCESSOR TO HF 763) (SUCCESSOR TO HF 436) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the reimbursement of resident physician medical liability insurance premiums to certain hospitals and affiliated nonprofit organizations.
House File 852 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 852 BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (SUCCESSOR TO HF 763) (SUCCESSOR TO HF 436) (As Amended and Passed by the House April 12, 2021) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the payment of resident physician medical liability insurance premiums for accredited graduate medical education programs.
TLSB 1746HZ (1) 89 cm/jh H.F.
HF 852 (2) 89 cm/jh/md H.F.
NEW SECTION.
Section 135.176, subsection 1, Code 2021, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
148D.7 Resident physician medical liability insurance premium reimbursement.
NEW PARAGRAPH .
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d.
A private or public hospital or affiliated nonprofit organization that has a resident physician program in Iowa may annually apply to the department of public health to be reimbursed for the cost of the hospital’s or affiliated nonprofit organizations’ medical liability insurance premiums attributable to resident physicians licensed pursuant to section 148.5 and employed by the hospital or affiliated nonprofit organization.
For the period beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2026, the payment by the sponsor of medical residency program liability costs subject to provision by the sponsor of dollar-for-dollar matching funds used for payment of such costs.
This paragraph shall not apply to medical residency programs to which chapter 669 applies.
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The department of public health may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement and administer this section.
Section 135.176, subsection 2, paragraphs e and f, Code 2021, are amended to read as follows:
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e.
This section does not apply to a hospital to which chapter 669 applies.
The maximum award of grant funds to a particular individual sponsor per year.
EXPLANATION The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
An individual sponsor that establishes a new or alternative campus accredited medical residency training program as defined in subsection 1, paragraph “a”, shall not receive more than fifty percent of the state matching funds available each year to support the program.
This bill relates to the reimbursement of resident physicians medical liability insurance premiums to certain hospitals and affiliated nonprofit organizations.
An individual sponsor proposing the provision of a new residency position within an existing accredited medical residency or fellowship training program as specified in subsection 1, paragraph “b”, or the funding of residency positions which are in excess of the federal residency cap as defined in subsection 1, paragraph “c”, or the funding of the payment by the sponsor of medical residency program liability costs subject to provision by the sponsor of dollar-for-dollar matching funds used for payment of such costs as specified in subsection 1, paragraph “d”, shall not receive more than twenty-five percent of the state matching funds available each year to support the program.
The bill provides that a private or public hospital or an affiliated nonprofit organization that has a resident physician program may apply to the department of public health to be reimbursed for the cost of the medical liability insurance premiums attributed to an employed resident physician, licensed pursuant to Code section 148.5, of the hospital or affiliated nonprofit organization.
f.
The department of public health may adopt rules to implement and administer the bill.
Use of the funds awarded.
The bill does not apply to hospitals to which Code chapter 669 (state tort claims) applies.
Funds may be used to pay the costs of establishing, expanding, or supporting an accredited graduate medical education program as specified in this section, including but not limited to the costs associated with residency stipends and physician faculty stipends.
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For the period beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2026, use of the funds awarded may include payment by the sponsor of HF 852 (2) 89 -1- cm/jh/md 1/2 H.F.
852 medical residency program liability costs in accordance with subsection 1, paragraph “d”, and subject to provision by the sponsor of dollar-for-dollar matching funds used for payment of such costs.
HF 852 (2) 89 -2- cm/jh/md 2/2
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Action History

  1. Explanation of vote.

  2. Explanation of vote.

  3. Subcommittee: Costello, Edler, and Trone Garriott.

  4. Explanation of vote.

  5. Fiscal note.

  6. Explanation of vote.

  7. Read first time, referred to Human Resources.

  8. Message from House.

  9. Immediate message.

  10. Passed House, yeas 91, nays 2.

  11. Amendment H-1363 adopted.

  12. Amendment H-1363 filed.

  13. Placed on calendar under unfinished business.

  14. Fiscal note.

  15. Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.

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