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AHA Responds to Senate Finance Committee Working Group GME Proposal
AHA sent on June 24 comments to the Senate Finance Committee’s Bipartisan Medicare Graduate Medical Education Working Group, which is developing legislation to address the physician shortage. The AHA urged the working group to substantially increase the number of Medicare-funded residency positions, which have been essentially frozen since 1997. The AHA expressed support for several legislative proposals that would increase the number of physicians practicing in rural and underserved communities and increase opportunities for rural hospitals to train physicians. In addition, the AHA urged the working group to ensure that Medicare Advantage plans provide appropriate direct GME payments to hospitals.
