Rural Physician Workforce Production Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to support rural residency training funding that is equitable for all States, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Rural Physician Workforce Production Act of 2025
This bill allows certain hospitals to receive additional payment under Medicare for full-time equivalent residents who receive training in rural areas.
Specifically, hospitals, critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, and rural emergency hospitals may elect to receive payment for time spent by a resident in a rural training location if the resident trains for at least eight weeks in the location and the hospital pays the salary and benefits of the resident during this time. Additionally, hospitals may receive payment for all time spent by residents in a residency program in which 50% of all training is in rural locations, regardless of where the training occurs or specialty.
Payments are based on the difference between the total amount of eligible payments (as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and the amount of graduate medical education payments received (if applicable).
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- SOCIETY OF TEACHERS OF FAMILY MEDICINE
- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
- THE COOK GROUP INC.
- I STREET ADVOCATES
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1153: Rural Physician Workforce Production Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1153/
"H.R. 1153: Rural Physician Workforce Production Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1153/.
H.R. 1153, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1153/.
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