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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 928

42 USC 295h-2.

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 September 30, 1983; and $4,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984". (e) Part C of title VII is amended by striking out "Subpart III— Traineeships for Students in Schools, Public Health and Other Graduate Programs". (f) Section 793 (42 U.S.C. 295h-3) entitled "statistics and annual report" is redesignated as section 794 and the following new section is inserted after section 792: TRAINING IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Grants. 42 USC 295h-lc.

Eligibility.

Appropriation authorization.

"SEC. 793. (a) The Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, osteopathy, and public health to meet the costs of projects— "(1) to plan and develop new residency training programs and to maintain or improve existing residency training programs in preventive medicine; and "(2) to provide financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in such programs. "(b)(l) The amount of any grant under subsection (a) shall be determined by the Secretary. No grant may be made under subsection (a) unless an application therefor is submitted to and approved by the Secretary. Such an application shall be in such form, submitted in such manner, and contain such information, as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. "(2) To be eligible for a grant under subsection (a), the applicant must demonstrate to the Secretary that it has or will have available full-time faculty members with training and experience in the fields of preventive medicine and support from other faculty members trained in public health and other relevant specialties and disciplines. "(c) For the purpose of grants under subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and $1,500,()00 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984.".^:,,a:iy:i?vr>b.,PHYSICIAN STUDY

42 USC 292h note.

SEC. 2747. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall arrange, in accordance with subsection (c), for a study to determine— (1) the implications of the increase in the supply of physicians and the projected distribution of the increased number of physicians in the various medical specialties for— (A) the cost of health care, (B) the distribution of all physicians by geographic area, and (C) the quality of health care; and (2) the implications of the patterns of payments of physicians by Federal and other public and private third-party payers (including differences in the levels of payments to physicians in various medical specialties and geographic areas and differences in the amount of payments which support post-graduate training programs in such specialties) for— (A) the distribution of physicians in the various medical specialties, (B) the cost of health care, ,j^., . (C) the distribution of physicians by geographic area, and / ", " (D) the quality of health care.