HR 1180 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 14, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Joseph Crowley D-NY

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; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from 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
D-FL	Corrine Brown		May 9, 2013
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 9, 2013
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 9, 2013
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		May 9, 2013
D-CO	Jared Polis		May 9, 2013
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		May 9, 2013
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 9, 2013
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		May 9, 2013
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		May 17, 2013
D-TX	Filemon Vela		May 17, 2013
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 17, 2013
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		May 23, 2013
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Jun 6, 2013
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 6, 2013
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jun 6, 2013
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jun 6, 2013
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jun 6, 2013
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 6, 2013
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jun 20, 2013
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jun 20, 2013
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 20, 2013
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young		Jun 20, 2013
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Jun 20, 2013
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Jun 20, 2013
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jun 20, 2013
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jun 26, 2013
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 26, 2013
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 26, 2013
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jun 28, 2013
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 28, 2013
R-NY	Tom Reed		Jun 28, 2013
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 11, 2013
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Jul 11, 2013
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jul 11, 2013
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jul 19, 2013
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jul 19, 2013
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jul 19, 2013
D-MA	William R. Keating		Jul 19, 2013
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Aug 2, 2013
D-NY	Daniel B. Maffei		Aug 2, 2013
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Aug 2, 2013
D-NY	Grace Meng		Aug 2, 2013
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Aug 2, 2013
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Aug 2, 2013
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Aug 2, 2013
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Aug 2, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel		Aug 2, 2013
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Aug 2, 2013
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Sep 12, 2013
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Sep 12, 2013
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Sep 12, 2013
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Sep 12, 2013
D-TX	Al Green		Sep 30, 2013
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Sep 30, 2013
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Oct 16, 2013
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Oct 16, 2013
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Oct 16, 2013
D-IL	William L. Enyart		Oct 16, 2013
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Nov 18, 2013
D-NV	Dina Titus		Nov 18, 2013
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Nov 18, 2013
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Nov 18, 2013
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Nov 18, 2013
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Nov 18, 2013
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Nov 18, 2013
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Nov 18, 2013
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Dec 12, 2013
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Dec 12, 2013
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Dec 12, 2013
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Dec 12, 2013
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Dec 12, 2013
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Dec 12, 2013
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jan 10, 2014
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Jan 10, 2014
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jan 10, 2014
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jan 10, 2014
R-VA	E. Scott Rigell		Mar 14, 2014
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Mar 14, 2014
D-VA	James P. Moran		Mar 14, 2014
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Mar 14, 2014
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Mar 18, 2014
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 25, 2014
D-CT	John B. Larson		Mar 25, 2014
D-CA	Mark Takano		Mar 25, 2014
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 4, 2014
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Apr 4, 2014
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Apr 4, 2014
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Apr 30, 2014
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Apr 30, 2014
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Apr 30, 2014
D-VT	Peter Welch		Apr 30, 2014
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		May 9, 2014
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 9, 2014
D-FL	Alan Grayson		May 22, 2014
D-GA	David Scott		May 22, 2014
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		May 22, 2014
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 22, 2014
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Jun 2, 2014
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Jun 2, 2014
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jun 24, 2014
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Jun 24, 2014
D-CA	Ami Bera		Jul 17, 2014
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 31, 2014

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 14, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 11, 2013
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 14, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 15, 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1429.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 113-9	SUCCESSFUL PRIMARY CARE PROGRAMS: CREATING THE WORKFORCE WE NEED87 pages	Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee	Apr 23, 2013

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

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House

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