Joint Comment Letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Proposal to Distribute New Graduate Medical Education (GME) Slots

Joint letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging them to finalize the Alternative 2 methodology in the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment system (IPPS) proposed rule, with modification, and increase the number of full time equivalent slots awarded per hospital for FY 2023 and beyond.

Ally Perleoni

workforce; physician workforce; health workforce; supply of internal medicine physicians; internists; internal medicine specialists; Medicare; training; medical residents; medical students; teaching hospitals; medical graduates; hospitals; GME; graduate medical education; direct graduate medical education; DGME; residency; residency slots; all payer GME; physician training; physician workforce shortage; primary care; specialty care; physician shortage; higher education; graduate school; medical education; early career physicians; student loans; medical school; education debt; student debt; public service; non profit; Indirect Medical Education; IME; residency training programs; rural; underserved; transparency; primary care physician; financing; residency caps; geographic maldistribution; GME payment; COVID-19; pandemic; coronavirus; health professional shortage areas; HPSAs; HPSA; new medical schools; caps; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; H.R. 133; Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems; IPPS; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; CMS; Chiquita Brooks-LaSure; Graduate Medical Education Advocacy Coalition; Medicare-supported GME positions;

Mon, 06/28/2021 - 4:26 PM EDT

Thu, 01/27/2022 - 11:57 AM EST

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