US Congress Senate Bill 577 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: Introduced on March 14 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-14 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to distribution of additional resident positions as they affect calculation of payments for direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for each of FY2015-FY2019 (and each succeeding fiscal year if additional residency positions are available to distribute), to increase the otherwise applicable resident limit for each qualifying hospital. Requires the aggregate number of increases in the otherwise applicable resident limit to be 3,000 in each of FY2015-FY2019, of which 1,500 in each such fiscal year shall be used for full-time equivalent residents training in a shortage specialty residency program. Specifies the process for distributing positions. Declares that, for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2015, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education (IME), insofar as those additional payments are attributable to resident positions distributed to a hospital according to such process, shall be computed in a specified manner with respect to those resident positions. (Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) Directs the National Health Care Workforce Commission to study the physician workforce. Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. William Cowan [D-MA]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-14	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1180 (Related) 2013-04-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB1201 (Related) 2013-04-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/577/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s577/BILLS-113s577is.pdf