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 PUBLIC LAW 98-194—DEC. 1, 1983 97 STAT. 1345 Public Law 98-194 98th Congress An Act To provide revised reimbursement criteria for small rural health clinics utilizing National Health Service Corps personnel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Rural Health Clinics Act of 1983". FINDINGS Dec. 1, 1983 [S. 2129] Rural Health Clinics Act of 1983. 42 USC 201 note. 42 USC 254g note. SEC. 2. Congress finds and declares that— (1) rural health clinics are an important part of America's health care delivery system; (2) National Health Service Corps personnel assigned to rural health clinics located in health manpower shortage areas have provided valuable and needed staffing help for such clinics; (3) rural health clinics receiving assistance from National Health Service Corps personnel should be expected to reimburse the Federal Government for a reasonable share of the costs of such personnel; and (4) the criteria which should be applied to reimbursement by Reimbursement, such clinics for use of such personnel should be a fair and equitable one which reflects the needs of such clinics and the populations served by such clinics, as well as the value of the services rendered by such personnel. ALTERNATIVE REIMBURSEMENT PROVISIONS SEC. 3. (a)(1) Subsection (a) of section 334 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254g) is amended— (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3), by inserting ", if not a small health center," after "the entity"; (B) by striking out "and" at the end of subparagraph (C) of such paragraph; (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as (5); and (D) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new para- graph: "(4) the entity, if a small health center, shall pay to the United States, in each calendar quarter (or other period as may be specified in the agreement) during which any Corps member is assigned to such entity, an amount determined by the Secre- tary in accordance with subsection (f); and", (b) Subsection (b) of such section is amended— (l)*by inserting ", on a prospective or retrospective basis," after "m whole or in part" in paragraph (1); (2) by inserting "which is not a small health center" after "for an entity" in such paragraph; (3) by inserting ", on a prospective or retrospective basis," after "in whole or in part" in paragraph (2); 11-1940-85 —44:QL3

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