Hospitals are at odds over how CMS should distribute an additional 1,000 graduate medical education slots, according to comments on the agency’s proposed inpatient prospective payment system rule. After 25 years of inaction, Congress finally increased the number of Medicare-supported GME slots to address the nation’s growing doctor shortage in its December spending bill. The Association of […]

Physician Workforce: Caps on Medicare-Funded Graduate Medical Education at Teaching Hospitals Before physicians practice medicine independently, they receive on-the-job training as residents in teaching hospitals. These residents are vital providers of health care during their training, and many stay in the geographic area to practice after their training is completed. Medicare pays these hospitals to […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders is using his new perch as head of a key health panel to expand the number of federally supported medical residency positions. Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Thursday he’ll introduce legislation to add 14,000 Medicare graduate medical education slots over seven years, potentially training thousands of new doctors each year. “This is a solvable […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09), senior members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees that respectively oversee national health policy, today announced that they have secured key provisions in the final FY2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rulemaking that […]