Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/854

 92 STAT. 2134

PUBLIC LAW 95-559—NOV. 1, 1978 CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

42 USC 300e-3. 42 USC 300e-9.

SEC. 6. Section 1304(b) is amended by adding after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph: " (4) A health maintenance organization which is a qualified health maintenance organization within the meaning of section 1310(d) may receive, in accordance with paragraph (1), a grant, contract, or loan guarantee for the expansion of its services or the significant expansion of its membership or the area served by it.". TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

42 USC 300e.

SEC. 7. (a) Title X III is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: " T R A I N I N G AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

National Health Maintenance Organization Intern Program. Establishment.

42 USC 300e-16.

Travel and other expenses. Payments to organization or other entity.

Technical assistance. 42 USC 300e-2, 300e-3. 42 USC 300e-9.

"SEC. 1317. (a)(1) The Secretary shall establish a National Health Maintenance Organization Intern Program (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the 'Program') for the purpose of providing training to individuals to become administrators and medical directors of health maintenance organizations or to assume other managerial positions with health maintenance organizations. Under the Program the Secretary may directly provide internships for such training and may make grants to or enter into contracts with health maintenance organizations and other entities to provide such internships. "(2) No internship may be provided by the Secretary and no grant may be made or contract entered into by the Secretary for the provision of internships unless an application therefor has been submitted to and approved by the Secretary. Such an application shall be in such form and contain such information, and be submitted to the Secretary in such manner, as the Secretary shall prescribe. Section 1306 does not apply to an application submitted under this section. " (3) Internships under the Program shall provide for such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses and dependency allowances) for the recipients of the internships as the Secretary deems necessary. An internship provided an individual for training at a health maintenance organization or any other entity shall also provide for payments to be made to the organization or other entity for the cost of support services (including the cost of salaries, supplies, equipment, and related items) provided such individual by such organization or other entity. The amount of any such payments to any organization or other entity shall be determined by the Secretary and shall bear a direct relationship to the reasonable costs of the organization or other entity for establishing and maintaining its training programs. "(4) Payments under grants under the Program may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and at such intervals and on such conditions, as the Secretary finds necessary. "(b) The Secretary shall provide technical assistance (1) to entities in connection with projects for which assistance is being provided under section 1303 or 1304, (2) to entities intending to become a qualified health maintenance organization within the meaning of section 1310(d), and (3) to health maintenance organizations. The Secretary may provide such technical assistance through grants to public and nonprofit private entities and contracts with public and private entities.

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