US Congress House Bill 4552 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: Introduced on December 5 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-12-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise 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, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall establish the hospital's full-time equivalent (FTE) resident amount only after determining that the hospital's medical residency training program trains more than 1.0 FTE resident in a cost reporting period. In the case of a hospital with an approved FTE resident amount based on the training of no more than 1.0 FTE resident in a cost reporting period before October 1, 1997, or 3.0 FTE residents in a cost reporting period after that date, the CMS shall provide the hospital an opportunity to have its FTE resident amount reestablished when the hospital begins training FTE residents in excess of the applicable threshold. Current law limits the number, subject to the application of certain adjustments, of FTE residents a hospital may have in allopathic and osteopathic medicine for purposes of Medicare payment. The bill specifies that the CMS shall determine a hospital's limitation adjustment only after determining that the hospital's medical residency training program trains more than 1.0 FTE residents in a cost reporting period. In the case of a hospital with a limitation adjustment based on the training of no more than 1.0 FTE resident in a cost reporting period before October 1, 1997, or 3.0 FTE residents in a cost reporting period after that date, the CMS shall provide the hospital an opportunity to have its adjustment re-determined when the hospital begins training FTE residents in excess of the applicable threshold.

Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2017

Rep. Mike Gallagher [R-WI]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Glenn Grothman [R-WI]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]
Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-12-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-12-05	House	Referred 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.
2017-12-05	House	Referred 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.
2017-12-05	House	Introduced in House

HB284 (Related) 2017-01-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB1291 (Same As) 2017-06-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB6056 (Related) 2018-06-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB3305 (Related) 2018-07-31 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4552/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4552/BILLS-115hr4552ih.pdf