HR 2124 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015

Introduced Apr 30, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Joseph Crowley D-NY

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; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from 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
D-CA	Mark Takano		May 18, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 18, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King		May 18, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		May 18, 2015
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		May 18, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		May 18, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 18, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		May 18, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 18, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 18, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 21, 2015
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		May 21, 2015
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		May 21, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jun 2, 2015
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jun 2, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jun 2, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jun 2, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jun 2, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 2, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jun 2, 2015
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jun 17, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Jun 17, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 17, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jun 17, 2015
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Jun 17, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jun 17, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jun 17, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Jun 25, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jun 25, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jun 25, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Jun 25, 2015
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		Jun 25, 2015
R-NY	Tom Reed		Jun 25, 2015
D-TX	Al Green		Jul 21, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Jul 21, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 21, 2015
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Jul 21, 2015
R-FL	Daniel Webster		Jul 21, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Jul 21, 2015
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Jul 21, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Jul 21, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jul 21, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Jul 21, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Jul 21, 2015
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Jul 29, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Jul 29, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jul 29, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jul 31, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 31, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Sep 11, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Sep 11, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Sep 11, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Sep 11, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Sep 11, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Sep 11, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Sep 11, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Sep 18, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Sep 18, 2015
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Sep 18, 2015
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 18, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Nov 5, 2015
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Nov 5, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Nov 5, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Nov 5, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Nov 5, 2015
R-NY	Chris Collins		Nov 19, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Nov 19, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Nov 19, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Dec 11, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Dec 11, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Dec 11, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Dec 11, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Dec 11, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Dec 11, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Dec 11, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Dec 18, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Dec 18, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Dec 18, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Dec 18, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Jan 8, 2016
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Jan 8, 2016
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Feb 26, 2016
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Feb 26, 2016
R-WV	Evan H. Jenkins		Feb 26, 2016
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Feb 26, 2016
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Feb 26, 2016
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Feb 26, 2016
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Mar 3, 2016
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Mar 3, 2016
D-HI	Mark Takai		Mar 3, 2016
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 3, 2016
D-IL	Bill Foster		Mar 17, 2016
D-CA	John Garamendi		Mar 17, 2016
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Apr 15, 2016
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Apr 15, 2016
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Apr 15, 2016
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Apr 15, 2016
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Apr 15, 2016
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Apr 15, 2016
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Apr 15, 2016
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Apr 15, 2016
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Apr 29, 2016
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Apr 29, 2016
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Apr 29, 2016
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Jul 11, 2016
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jul 11, 2016
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jul 11, 2016
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jul 11, 2016
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Jul 11, 2016
R-TX	Will Hurd		Jul 11, 2016
D-CA	Ami Bera		Jul 14, 2016
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jul 14, 2016
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 14, 2016
R-IA	David Young		Sep 8, 2016
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Sep 8, 2016
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Sep 8, 2016
R-NH	Frank C. Guinta		Sep 28, 2016
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Sep 28, 2016
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Sep 28, 2016
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Dec 8, 2016
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Dec 8, 2016
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Dec 8, 2016
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Dec 8, 2016

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 Apr 30, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 18, 2015
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Apr 30, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 1, 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.

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

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 64, April 30, 2015, page H2770.

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
—	LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE AND SUSTAIN THE MEDICARE PROGRAM66 pages	Ways and Means Committee	Jun 8, 2016

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

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 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 30, 2015Introduced in House

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