H.R. 3667: Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011
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H.R. 3667: Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011
112th Congress · introduced 2011-12-14 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-12-14 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011
Plain summary
Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct a pilot project under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to test models for providing payment for direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) to medical education entities (MEEs), not otherwise eligible to receive such payments, for the costs of training primary care residents. Requires testing of two of the following model MEEs: (1) a community-based independent corporate entity collaborating with two or more hospitals to operate one or more primary care graduate medical residency training programs (training hospitals); (2) a MEE, with at least one community representative on its board, which is established by two or more training hospitals which may be the sole corporate members of the MEE; (3) a hospital subsidiary or independent corporation, with community participation in its governance, that operates one or more training programs for a hospital; or (4) a MEE (including a university or school of medicine) independent of any hospital but collaborating with one in operating one or more primary care graduate medical residency training programs.
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Official text
Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2011
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5] · 16 cosponsors
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Mike Thompson (D-CA), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Robert E. Latta (R-OH)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112hr3667.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/hr>
Record fed-us-cong112-hr3667 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112