Medical Education/Teaching Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 7 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS). CMS will accept comments on this rule through June 7.
Twenty organizations, including the AHA, last week urged congressional appropriators to provide $485 million in fiscal year 2022 funding for the Children鈥檚 Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program.
Twenty organizations, including the AHA, urge congressional appropriators to provide $485 million in fiscal year 2022 funding for the Children鈥檚 Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program.
The AHA asks that commissioners consider the following issues as they recommend changes that would have a significant impact on hospitals, health systems and the Medicare patients we serve.
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend the five-year window for building medical residency programs to account for the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Teaching hospitals train our physician workforce, a role that has taken on increased significance due to an aging population and predictions of a physician shortage. A well-trained physician workforce is essential for providing access to high-quality, high-value health care.
The number of incoming medical students from rural backgrounds 鈥 a strong predictor a future physician will practice in a rural community 鈥 declined 28% between 2002 and 2017 to 852.
Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, yesterday introduced the Senate companion to the Opioid Workforce Act.
AHA yesterday urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to release a 鈥渕ore granular assessment of the hospital-level impacts鈥 of its potential changes to the Indirect Medical Education program.
According to a committee summary, the draft bill would provide $93.4 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, an increase of $2.9 billion over FY 2019.