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HR 8953 116th Congress House

Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2020

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for graduate medical education partnerships in States with a low ratio of medical residents relative to the general population.

Introduced: December 14, 2020 Introduced by: Castor, Kathy Democratic · Florida See on congress.gov
Health Education programs fundingHealth care coverage and accessHealth personnelHealth programs administration and fundingMedical education
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dec 14, 2020
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 Latest action December 14, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2020

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to award matching funds to teaching hospitals or other graduate medical education training programs for medical residency training programs in states where there are fewer than 30 medical residents per 100,000 people.

Recipients must cover one third of the costs for primary care residency training programs and one half of the costs for programs in other fields.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8953: Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8953/
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"H.R. 8953: Creating Access to Residency Education Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8953/.
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