Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
Latest action · Mar 21, 2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 17, 2016
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase, for purposes of Medicare payment, the otherwise applicable resident limit for qualifying hospitals. The bill establishes a process for distributing the new residency positions.
The bill eliminates the use of three-year rolling averages with respect to calculating, for purposes of Medicare payment, specified limits on certain new or redistributed residency positions.
With respect to specified hospitals, all of the time spent by an intern or resident in an approved medical residency training program, regardless of setting, shall be counted for purposes of determining a hospital's number of residents.
The bill revises payment rules for graduate medical education (GME) costs with respect to a hospital that establishes a new medical residency training program. With respect to a hospital that has not entered into a GME affiliation agreement, CMS shall establish the hospital's resident amount only after determining that the hospital trains more a specified number of residents. Similarly, CMS shall adjust a hospital's limitation on allopathic and osteopathic residents only after determining that the hospital trains more than a specified number of residents. In specified cases, CMS shall provide a hospital an opportunity to have its resident amount reestablished and its limitation adjustment re-determined.
The bill also revises provisions regarding: (1) aggregation rules relating to resident limits, and (2) the period of board eligibility for residents who change specialties.
CMS shall establish and implement procedures for adjusting a hospital's indirect medical education payments based on specified performance measures.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 26, 2016 to Jul 25, 2016.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Alan Grayson | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-MN | Timothy J. Walz | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Apr 27, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Apr 27, 2016 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Apr 28, 2016 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | Apr 28, 2016 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | May 10, 2016 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | May 10, 2016 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Jul 25, 2016 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 21, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 18, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 17, 2016Introduced in House
- Mar 17, 2016Referred 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 2671 | Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2016 | Related bill | Mar 14, 2016 |
| HR 4732 | Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2016 | Related bill | Mar 18, 2016 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Education programs funding
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Hospital care
- Medical education
- Medicare
- Performance measurement
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2016Introduced in House
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