Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions, 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.
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025
This bill increases the number of residency positions eligible for graduate medical education payments under Medicare for qualifying hospitals, including hospitals in rural areas and health professional shortage areas.
The bill provides for an additional increase of 2,000 positions per fiscal year from FY2026-FY2032; during this period, each hospital may receive up to 75 additional positions in total under the bill and current law. Additionally, one-third of the positions that are made available under the bill must be allocated to hospitals that are already operating above applicable resident limits.
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on strategies to increase the diversity of the health professional workforce, including with respect to representation from rural, low-income, and minority communities.
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- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
- NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS (FORMERLY NYU HOSPITALS CENTER)
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
- RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Education, Dept of
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4731: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4731/
"H.R. 4731: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4731/.
H.R. 4731, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4731/.
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