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42 USC 1395ff note.

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PUBLIC LAW 100-203—DEC. 22, 1987

Academy submits an acceptable application, the Secretary shall enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Academy for the conduct of the study. If the Academy does not submit an acceptable application to conduct the study, the Secretary may request one or more appropriate nonprofit private entities to submit an application to conduct the study and may enter into an appropriate arrangement for the conduct of the study by the entity which submits the best acceptable application. (5) Section 1881 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395rr) is amended— (A) in subsection (c)(2)(F), by striking "and subsection (g)", • (B) by striking the last sentence of subsection (c)(6), (C) by striking subsection (g), and (D) by redesignating subsection (h), as added by section 20 of the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-93), as subsection (g).

SEC. 4037. MEDICARE HEARINGS AND APPEALS. (a) MAINTAINING CURRENT SYSTEM FOR HEARINGS AND APPEALS.—

Any hearing conducted under section 1869(b)(1) of the Social Security Act prior to the earliest of the date on which the Secretary of Health and Human Services submits the report required to be submitted by the Secretary under subsection (l))(l) or September 1 • ' •;) 5 shall be conducted by Administrative Law Judges of the Office of Hearings and Appeals of the Social Security Administration in the same manner as are hearings conducted under section 205(b)(1) of ' ' ' ' ' such Act. '^**'^ (b) STUDY AND REPORT ON USE OF TELEPHONE HEARINGS.— (1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Comptroller General of the United States shall each conduct a • study on holding hearings under section 1869(b)(1) of the Social '9 Security Act by telephone and shall each report the results of the study not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act. " *'• (2) The studies under paragraph (1) shall focus on whether telephone hearings allow for a full and fair evidentiary hearing, in general, or with respect to any particular category of claims and shall examine the possible improvements to the hearing process (such as cost-effectiveness, convenience to the claimant, and reduction in time under the process) resulting from the use of such hearings as compared to the adoption of other changes to the process (such as expansions in staff and resources). 42 USC 1395WW note.
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SEC. 4038. RURAL HEALTH PROJECT.

MEDICAL

EDUCATION DEMONSTRATION

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the ' Secretary") shall enter into agreements with four sponsoring hospitals submitting applications under this subsection to conduct demonstration projects to assist resident physicians in developing field clinical experience in rural areas. (b) NATURE OF PROJECT.—Under a demonstration project con-

.iff:i^sSi ducted under subsection (a), a sponsoring hospital entering into an agreement with the Secretary under such subsection shall enter into arrangements with a small rural hospital to provide to such rural hospital, for a period of one to three months of training, physicians (in such number as the agreement under subsection (a) may provide) who have completed one year of residency training. - .,,.

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