Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 2/27/2019
Actions
- 2019-02-27Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2019-02-26Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2019-02-26Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2019-02-26Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2019-02-26Introduced in House
- 2019-02-26Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-02-26 (00)
Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2019
This bill revises payment rules under Medicare for graduate medical education (GME) costs with respect to a hospital that establishes a new medical residency training program.
If a hospital has not entered into a GME affiliation agreement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must establish the hospital's full-time equivalent (FTE) resident amount only after determining that the hospital's medical residency training program trains more than 1.0 FTE resident in a cost reporting period. If a hospital has an approved FTE resident amount that is based on other specified thresholds, the CMS must give the hospital the opportunity to have the amount reestablished when the hospital begins training FTE residents in excess of the applicable threshold.
The bill also establishes similar thresholds for new determinations of certain adjustments to hospital payment limitations regarding FTE residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine; a hospital that has an adjustment has the opportunity to have it redetermined once the applicable threshold is exceeded.
Cosponsors (20)
- Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
- F. SENSENBRENNER (R-WI)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Sean Duffy (R-WI)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- Bryan Steil (R-WI)
- Ross Spano (R-FL)
- Terri Sewell (D-AL)
- Cathy Rodgers (R-WA)
- Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Anthony Brindisi (D-NY)
- Rodney Davis (R-IL)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Jared Golden (D-ME)
- Tom Reed (R-NY)
- John Katko (R-NY)
- SUSAN DAVIS (D-CA)
Subjects
- Education programs funding
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health programs administration and funding
- Hospital care
- Medical education
- Medicare
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