S. 2715 119th Congress Senate

FAIR Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals with approved medical residency training programs to submit to the Secretary of Hea… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals with approved medical residency training programs to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services certain information regarding osteopathic and allopathic candidates for such programs.

Introduced: September 4, 2025 Introduced by: Steve Daines Republican · Montana See on congress.gov

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Sep 4, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Sep 4, 2025

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fair Access In Residency Act of 2025 or the FAIR Act of 2025

This bill requires hospitals that receive graduate medical education (GME) payments under Medicare to report certain information about the composition of their medical residency training programs.

Specifically, hospitals must provide to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (1) the number of applicants for residencies who are from osteopathic medical schools and from allopathic medical schools, (2) the number of applicants who are accepted from each of these types of medical schools, and (3) an affirmation that the hospital considers applicants from each of these types of medical schools and accepts specified related examination results, as appropriate. Hospitals that do not provide this information are subject to a 2% reduction in their GME payments.

The CMS must post the information it receives on a public website.

Related & companion bills 1

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Finance Committee
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Lobbying activity 36

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
for RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE · Maryland · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
for AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
for ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC
for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE · Maryland · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
VENABLE LLP
for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE · Maryland · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
36 filings
SENATE
36 filings
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
24 filings
Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
22 filings
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
18 filings
Education, Dept of
16 filings
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
16 filings
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
16 filings

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Cosponsors 8