A study prepared by Tripp Umbach, an economic consulting firm, for the Association of American Medical Colleges, found that cutting Medicare Indirect Medical Education payments to teaching hospitals ...

The indirect medical education calculations are complicated and controversial. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a group that advises Congress, estimates that indirect payment levels ...

The Medicare-reform bill approved last week by Congress will partially restore federal funds cut for the indirect expenses of teaching hospitals. Lawmakers agreed to put back $300-million over the ...

New Jersey graduate medical education funding could see a $67 million budget cut if politicians in Washington drive over the so-called “fiscal cliff” in January, threatening the state’s ability to ...

The federal government is investigating NYU Langone over Medicare payments it received to cover indirect medical education expenses, according to a disclosure in the health system's financial ...

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers called the Trump Administration’s attempts to cut funding for indirect costs for grants through the National Institutes of Health reckless and said it ...

The nation’s teaching hospitals could lose billions of federal dollars for physician training, and services to poor and elderly patients could be jeopardized, if Congress approves Medicare cuts that ...

If teaching hospitals were reasonably homogeneous, it seems clear that the PPS would have been set up differently. Instead of increasing payments with the number of residents, as both the direct and ...

Reforming the physician fee schedule would help close the income gap that has led to a shortage of primary-care physicians, according to a new paper. When Congress shifted pay models from individual ...

A state appeals court upheld an arbitration award in favor of Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center after a consulting company miscalculated a Medicare reimbursement, costing the hospital millions.

American Academy of Emergency Medicine. 2009;16(4):14-15. As we begin a new membership year with the incoming team of leadership for AAEM/RSA, we have the opportunity to build on our past successes ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is the single largest funder of graduate medical education (GME). This is the training that ...