Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
Latest action · Mar 14, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 14, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot 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.
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.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2013 to Sep 17, 2014, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Mar 14, 2013 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Mar 14, 2013 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Mar 21, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-MA | William M. Cowan | May 7, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | May 21, 2013 | |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Jun 13, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Jul 18, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Al Franken | Sep 11, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Dec 10, 2013 | |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Feb 4, 2014 | |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Jul 10, 2014 | |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Sep 17, 2014 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 14, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Mar 14, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1180 | Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 | Related bill | Apr 11, 2013 |
| HR 1201 | Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act | Related bill | Apr 10, 2013 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
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- Mar 14, 2013Introduced in Senate
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