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CMS sets March 31 deadline for applications for Round 2 of Section 126 resident slots

Hospitals are encouraged by March 31 to apply for up to five medical education full‐time equivalent resident cap slots made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Local Access to Care for Patients and Communities

America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope, comfort and caring. Today, they also face many challenges that jeopardize their ability to always be there ready to care.

CMS awards 200 new Medicare-funded residency slots to hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today allocated 200 new Medicare-funded residency slots to 100 teaching hospitals in health professional shortage areas with the greatest need, as described in the inpatient prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2022.

Putting on a Full-court Press to Secure Support for Hospitals and Patients

As Congress convenes for its post-election lame-duck session, we are turning up the pressure to secure additional support for hospitals and the patients and communities they serve. We need to put on a full-court press — and that includes all of us reaching out to our senators and representatives — to urge them to include a number of key priorities in a year-end spending package.
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Urge Congress to Support Hospitals by Enacting Key Priorities in Lame-Duck Session

The AHA has urged congressional leaders to include a number of important provisions in a year-end legislative package to ensure that hospitals and health systems are able to continue their mission of caring for the communities they serve.

CMS: Nov. 18 deadline for teaching hospitals to ask to reset certain Medicare resident amounts 

Teaching hospitals have until Nov. 18 to ask Medicare to review their per resident amounts or resident caps for certain cost reports, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this month.

Exercise Your Precious Right to Vote on Nov. 8

There are many significant milestones in our nation’s history of voting.
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Inpatient PPS Final Rule for FY 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) August 1 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS

Congress urged to bolster Children’s Hospitals GME funding

The program currently receives just 2% of total federal spending on graduate medical education. 

HRSA extends deadline for applying to become National Health Service Corps site

NHSC-approved sites can recruit and retain qualified providers through NHSC scholarship and loan repayment programs.