Title: Rural-Urban Physician Workforce Act of 2020
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Rural-Urban Physician Workforce Act of 2020
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adjust requirements for graduate medical education payments under Medicare for participating hospitals that form tracks for medical residency training in rural areas.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8892 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8892

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to support rural 
residency training funding and promote partnerships with urban teaching 
                               hospitals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2020

  Mr. Wenstrup (for himself and Ms. Sewell of Alabama) introduced the 
following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to support rural 
residency training funding and promote partnerships with urban teaching 
                               hospitals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural-Urban Physician Workforce Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTING RURAL HOSPITAL GME FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.

    Section 1886(h)(4)(H)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(h)(4)(iv)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(iv) Nonrural Hospital Operating Training 
        Programs in Rural Areas.--In the case of'' and inserting the 
        following:
                            ``(iv) Training programs in rural areas.--
                                    ``(I) Cost reporting periods 
                                beginning before october 1, 2022.--For 
                                cost reporting periods beginning before 
                                October 1, 2022, in the case of''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subclause:
                                    ``(II) Cost reporting periods 
                                beginning on or after october 1, 
                                2022.--For cost reporting periods 
                                beginning on or after October 1, 2022, 
                                in the case of a hospital not located 
                                in a rural area but establishes 
                                approved medical residency training 
                                programs (or rural tracks) in a rural 
                                area, the Secretary shall, subject to 
                                paragraphs (7) and (8) and in a manner 
                                consistent with the principles of 
                                subparagraphs (F), (G), and (H)(i), 
                                promulgate rules for the application of 
                                such subparagraphs with respect to such 
                                a program and, in accordance with such 
                                rules, adjust in an appropriate manner 
                                the limitation under subparagraph (F) 
                                for such hospital and each such 
                                hospital located in a rural area that 
                                participates in such a training.''.
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