Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025
Official title: A bill 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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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 FY2027-FY2033; during this period, each hospital may receive up to 75 additional positions in total under the bill and current law.
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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- CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
- NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS (FORMERLY NYU HOSPITALS CENTER)
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
- WELSH ROSE, LLC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2439: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2439/
"S. 2439: Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2439/.
S. 2439, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2439/.
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