85.968             Reform the Methodology for Calculating Direct Graduate Medical Education Payments

85.968             Reform the Methodology for Calculating Direct Graduate Medical Education Payments:

MSSNY will urge that (1) the current methodology for calculating direct Graduate Medical Education (GME) payments be updated to reflect the actual costs that a hospital incurs for training residents, rather than a hospital-specific per resident amount determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) for all teaching hospitals; (2) caps on Medicare’s support for GME residency positions be eliminated which would enable teaching hospitals to cover their costs and subsequently train more physicians.  (HOD 2009-153; Reaffirmed with amendment HOD 2019)