SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance
SUBCOMMITTEE: Graduate Medical Education

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Thursday, April 20, 2000

PLACE: E1.036

CHAIR: Senator Mike Moncrief

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I.    CALL TO ORDER

II.   INVITED TESTIMONY
      (a)  Overview of Rural Graduate Medical Education (GME) Issues
           (Sam Tessen - Executive Director, Center for Rural Health
           Initiatives)

      (b)  Medical School Efforts to Address Rural GME Issues
           (Panel of University System and Baylor University
           Representatives)

      (c)  Overview of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
           (THECB) Formula Advisory Committee Recommendations
           Relating to GME
           (Representatives of the Advisory Committee and the THECB)

      (d)  Update on Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital
           Formula Negotiations
           (Joe DaSilva - Texas Hospital Association)

III.  OTHER BUSINESS

IV.   RECESS


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