Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
Latest action · Apr 11, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 14, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Directs the Secretary to determine the total number of additional residency positions available for distribution, in accordance with guidelines for allocating 33% to hospitals already operating over the resident limit, and generally setting the aggregate number of increases in the resident limit to 3,000 in each year.
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 established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to study the physician workforce.
Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.
Cosponsors 118
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2013 to Jul 31, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NY | Michael G. Grimm | Original | Mar 14, 2013 |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Mar 18, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Mar 18, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Peter T. King | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Richard L. Hanna | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| R-IA | Tom Latham | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-NY | William L. Owens | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | May 9, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Christopher P. Gibson | May 9, 2013 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 11, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House
- Mar 14, 2013Referred 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.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 577 | Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 | Related bill | Mar 14, 2013 |
| HR 1201 | Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act | Related bill | Apr 10, 2013 |
Subjects
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- Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House
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