US SB2116 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on July 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-07-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on July 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-07-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
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.
Title
Supporting Graduate Medical Education at Community Hospitals Act of 2019
Sponsors
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ] | Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2019-07-15 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
Same As/Similar To
HB3753 (Related) 2019-07-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subjects
Education programs funding
Health
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Health
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2116/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2116/BILLS-116s2116is.pdf |