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[CITE: 42USC300e-16]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
             SUBCHAPTER XI--HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
 
Sec. 300e-16. Training and technical assistance


(a) National Health Maintenance Organization Intern Program

    (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 300e-5 of this title 
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) Technical assistance

    The Secretary shall provide technical assistance (1) to entities 
intending to become a qualified health maintenance organization within 
the meaning of section 300e-9(d) \1\ of this title, and (2) 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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(c) Amounts provided in advance in appropriation acts

    The authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts under 
subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be effective for any 
fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in 
advance by appropriation Acts.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, Sec. 1317, as added Pub. L. 95-559, 
Sec. 7(a), Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2134; amended Pub. L. 99-660, title 
VIII, Sec. 803(b)(4), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3800.)

                       References in Text

    Section 300e-9(d) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was 
redesignated section 300e-9(c) of this title by Pub. L. 100-517, 
Sec. 7(b), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2580.


                               Amendments

    1986--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-660 redesignated cls. (2) and (3) as 
(1) and (2), respectively, and struck out former cl. (1) which read as 
follows: ``to entities in connection with projects for which assistance 
is being provided under section 300e-2 or 300e-3 of this title,''.


                    Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-660 not applicable to any grant made or 
contract entered into under this subchapter before Oct. 1, 1985, see 
section 803(c) of Pub. L. 99-660, set out as a note under section 300e-5 
of this title.
    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-660 effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 
815(a) of Pub. L. 99-660, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates 
of 1986 Amendment note under section 300e-1 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section 7(c) of Pub. L. 95-559 provided that: ``The amendments made 
by this section [enacting this section and amending section 300e-8 of 
this title] shall only be effective for fiscal years beginning on or 
after October 1, 1978.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300e-8 of this title.
