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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 7 — Social Security

§ 1312. Medical care guides and reports for public assistance and medical assistance

Statutory text

In order to assist the States to extend the scope and content, and improve the quality, of medical care and medical services for which payments are made to or on behalf of needy and low-income individuals under this chapter and in order to promote better public understanding about medical care and medical assistance for needy and low-income individuals, the Secretary shall develop and revise from time to time guides or recommended standards as to the level, content, and quality of medical care and medical services for the use of the States in evaluating and improving their public assistance medical care programs and their programs of medical assistance; shall secure periodic reports from the States on items included in, and the quantity of, medical care and medical services for which expenditures under such programs are made; and shall from time to time publish data secured from these reports and other information necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Social Security Amendments of 1960

    Pub. L. 86–778 title VII § 705 · 74 Stat. 924

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1312

    Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1112, as added Pub. L. 86–778, title VII, § 705, Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 995

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1112, as added Pub. L. 86–778, title VII, § 705, Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 995

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 705. medical care guides and reports for public assistance and medical assistance for the aged Title XI of the Social Security Act is amended by adding 42 USC 130 1–1310. at the end thereof the following new section: “Sec. 1112. “medical care guides and reports for public assistance and medical assistance for the aged In order to assist the States to extend the scope and content, and improve the quality, of medical care and medical services for which payments are made to or on behalf of needy and low-income individuals under this Act and in order to promote better public understanding about medical care and medical assistance for needy and low-income individuals, the Secretary shall develop and revise from time to time guides or recommended standards as to the level, content, and quality of medical care and medical services for the use of the States in evaluating and improving their public assistance medical care programs and their programs of medical assistance for the aged; shall secure periodic reports from the States on items included in, and the quantity of, medical care and medical services for which expenditures under such programs are made; and shall from time to time publish data secured from these reports and other information necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.”

  2. Social Security Amendments of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–97 title IV § 408(c) · 79 Stat. 288

    Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 1312

    Pub. L. 89–97 struck out “for the aged” after “medical assistance”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–97 struck out “for the aged” after “medical assistance”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (c) (1) Section 1112 of such Act is amended by striking out “for the aged”. (2) The heading of section 1112 of such Act is amended by striking out “for the aged”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–97 struck out “for the aged” after “medical assistance”.

Credits

1935–1965 · 2 acts
  1. 1935Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1112, as added Pub. L. 86–778, title VII, § 705, , 74 Stat. 995
  2. 1965amended Pub. L. 89–97, title IV, § 408(c), , 79 Stat. 422.
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(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1112, as added Pub. L. 86–778, title VII, § 705, , 74 Stat. 995; amended Pub. L. 89–97, title IV, § 408(c), , 79 Stat. 422.)

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