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AHA Supports Bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act
The American Hospital Association (AHA) expresses support for legislation, H.R. 3890, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. This bipartisan bill would add 14,000 Medicare-funded residency positions over seven years, thereby helping to alleviate ongoing physician shortages that threaten patients’ access to care.
AHA Comments on Senate Finance Committee Medicare-funded Physician Residency Draft Bill
AHA comments on draft Medicare graduate medical education (GME) reform package (KEL24743 MP2).
AHA Comments on Senate Finance Committee Bipartisan Working Group on GME
AHA comments on sections of the Senate Finance Committee Bipartisan Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Working Group’s draft proposal.
Fact Sheet: Increased Graduate Medical Education Needed to Preserve Access to Care
We urge Congress to increase the number of Medicare-supported GME residency positions. The AHA supports the bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2021 (H.R.2256/S.834) which adds 14,000 Medicare-funded residency slots over the next seven years.
Factsheet: The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017
Background
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME