3.0.0 3201 2019-02-20T23:33:35Z 2019-02-24T06:43:34Z Senate S S 2012-05-17 112 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-05-17T17:37:47Z Resident Physician Shortage Reduction and Graduate Medical Education Accountability and Transparency Act 112 6352 HR 2012-08-03 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2012-05-17 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2012-05-17 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3286) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2012-05-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. N K000352 Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] Jon Kyl R AZ Llewellyn 2012-05-17 True Health Congressional oversight Health care costs and insurance Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Hospital care Medical education Medicare Performance measurement Health 00 2012-05-17 Introduced in Senate 2012-05-30T18:42:55Z Graduate Medical Education Reform Act of 2012 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and implement procedures under which, beginning in FY2017, the amount of payments that a hospital would otherwise receive for indirect graduate medical education (GME) costs for discharges during a fiscal year is adjusted based on the hospital's performance on measures of patient care priorities.

Requires the Secretary to specify measures of patient care priorities, including the extent of training provided in: (1) the delivery of services categorized as evaluation and management codes by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (2) a variety of settings and systems, (3) the coordination of patient care across settings, (4) the relevant cost and value of various diagnostic and treatment options, (5) interprofessionality and multidisciplinary care teams, (6) methods for identifying system errors and implementing system solutions, and (7) the use of health information technology.

Requires such measures of patient care to be: (1) adopted or endorsed by an accrediting organization, and (2) consensus-based. Allows such measures to include any submitted by teaching hospitals, medical schools, and other stakeholders.

Directs the Secretary to report to Congress and the National Health Care Workforce Commission on the GME payments hospitals receive under Medicare.

]]> Graduate Medical Education Reform Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced Graduate Medical Education Reform Act of 2012 Display Title Graduate Medical Education Reform Act of 2012 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reform graduate medical education payments, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2012-05-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s3201is/xml/BILLS-112s3201is.xml 2012-05-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.