This report provides information on approved educational activities for nursing and other nonphysician health professions for which reimbursement is made to hospitals under the Medicare program. Information was summarized from an examination of existing data and a special study of the variations that exist in hospital educational activities. The report provides interpreted statistics on the following: types and numbers of educational programs; numbers of students supported or trained; fiscal and administrative relationships between the hospitals and affiliated schools; financial and other benefits that accrue to the hospitals as a consequence of having such programs; and the types of educational expenses that are being reimbursed. The report contains a brief summary of selected regulations and judicial decisions to show changes that have occurred in Medicare reimbursement for the cost of approved educational activities from Medicare's inception in 1965 to the present. The report reviews reimbursement of jointly operated educational programs. Detailed summaries of survey results by discipline are given. (KC)