Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015
Latest action · May 18, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedApr 30, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015
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 costs.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each of FY2017-FY2021 (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, 2017, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education, 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 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 143
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 30, 2015 to Dec 8, 2016, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Original | Apr 30, 2015 |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | May 18, 2015 | |
| R-VA | E. Scott Rigell | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | May 18, 2015 | |
| R-NY | John Katko | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | May 18, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | May 18, 2015 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 18, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 1, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 30, 2015Introduced in House
- Apr 30, 2015Referred 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 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1148 | Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015 | Related bill | Apr 30, 2015 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
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- Apr 30, 2015Introduced in House
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