SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Finance
SUBCOMMITTEE: Graduate Medical Education (Charge 4)

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Friday, February 11, 2000

PLACE: U.T. Medical Branch

CHAIR: Senator Mike Moncrief

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            University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
                            Caduceus Room
                          301 University Blvd.
                            Galveston, TX

I.   CALL TO ORDER

II.  INVITED TESTIMONY
     A.  Update on Financial Issues at State-Owned Teaching Hospitals
         1.  University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
         2.  University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
         3.  University of Texas Health Center at Tyler

     B.  Medicaid Graduate Medical Education (GME) Funding and
         Maximizing State GME

     C.  Review of Efforts in Other States to Address GME Funding
         Issues

III. OTHER BUSINESS

IV.  RECESS


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