3.0.0 577 2019-11-15T21:52:30Z 2019-11-15T21:52:30Z Senate S S 2013-03-14 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-03-14T20:59:03Z Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 113 1180 HR 2013-04-11 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act 113 1201 HR 2013-04-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2013-03-14 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2013-03-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress N000032 Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] CLARENCE NELSON D FL WILLIAM N R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2013-03-14 True S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2013-03-14 True C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2013-03-21 False S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2013-04-10 False M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2013-04-25 False C001099 Sen. Cowan, William M. [D-MA] William "Mo" Cowan D MA 2013-05-07 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2013-05-21 False M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2013-06-13 False W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2013-07-18 False F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN 2013-09-11 False M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2013-12-10 False M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2014-02-04 False L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2014-07-10 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2014-09-17 False Health Congressional oversight Government studies and investigations Health care coverage and access Health personnel Hospital care Medical education Medicare Minority employment Minority health Health 00 2013-03-14 Introduced in Senate 2014-02-25T21:32:37Z Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to distribution of additional resident positions as they affect calculation of payments for direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for each of FY2015-FY2019 (and each succeeding fiscal year if additional residency positions are available to distribute), to increase the otherwise applicable resident limit for each qualifying hospital.

Requires the aggregate number of increases in the otherwise applicable resident limit to be 3,000 in each of FY2015-FY2019, of which 1,500 in each such fiscal year shall be used for full-time equivalent residents training in a shortage specialty residency program.

Specifies the process for distributing positions.

Declares that, for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2015, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education (IME), insofar as those additional payments are attributable to resident positions distributed to a hospital according to such process, shall be computed in a specified manner with respect to those resident positions.

(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

Directs the National Health Care Workforce Commission to study the physician workforce.

Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.

]]> Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 Short Titles as Introduced Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions, and for other purposes. Display Title Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-03-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s577is/xml/BILLS-113s577is.xml 2013-03-14 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.