HCFA is looking for feedback from the provider community on its ideas for revising the HCFA-855 Enrollment application and developing the Medicare enrollment regulation. With regard to the proposal for Medicare enrollment, HCFA plans to have providers validate the information HCFA has on file at least every three years. HCFA also intends to develop criteria for mandatory denial and revocation and criteria for discretionary enrollment denial or revocation. Graduate Medical Education Funding MedPAC hopes to finalize its recommendations for GME funding at its July meeting for a report to be released in August. The advisory commission has been studying the concept that in a competitive labor market, an employer will not pay for general training.
Medical residents pay for their training by accepting lower wages.
Medicare s direct GME payments represent its share of the value of residents patient care. MedPAC is looking at incorporating resident costs into the Indirect Medical Education payment formula. MedPAC has to address payments for residents services in settings such as ambulatory training sites.