title: CMS prevents changes to Medicare resident caps.
abstract: Medicare has limited funding for graduate medical education (GME) to the number of residents a hospital trained in 1996. Hospitals may train dozens, even hundreds, of residents above the level that they trained in 1996, but they receive no GME payments for residents above the 1996 cap. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) closed the door to correcting the capin a final rule published in December 2013. Unless Congress acts or a court invalidates CMS's revised reopening regulation, GME funding is likely to remain fairly stagnant.
authors: Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC, Washington, D.C., USA. Ron.Connelly@ppsv.com
authors: Ronald S
authors: RS
authors: Connelly
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / Q000191:economics*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000191:economics*; D005380:Financing, Government; D016134:Organizational Policy; D014481:United States