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H.R. 2124: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015

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H.R. 2124: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-04-30 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-04-30 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015

Plain summary

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015 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 costs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each of FY2017-FY2021 (and each succeeding fiscal year if additional residency positions are available to distribute), to increase the otherwise applicable resident limit for each qualifying hospital. Directs the Secretary to determine the total number of additional residency positions available for distribution, in accordance with guidelines for allocating 33% to hospitals already operating over the resident limit, and generally setting the aggregate number of increases in the resident limit to 3,000 in each year. Specifies the process for distributing positions. Declares that, for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2017, the indirect teaching adjustment factor, with respect to additional payments for subsection (d) hospitals with indirect costs of medical education, 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 when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.) Directs the National Health Care Workforce Commission established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to study the physician workforce. Directs the Comptroller General to study strategies for increasing the diversity of the health profession workforce.

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Official text

Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · 143 cosponsors

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Julia Brownley (D-CA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Al Green (D-TX) and 83 more.

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Record fed-us-cong114-hr2124 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114