Find out how you can support changes to the laws and rules governing graduate medical education that are hindering your ability to train future family physicians.
Medicare GME
Broad Medicare GME reform is needed. Family medicine is currently revising its policy on overall Medicare GME reform.
- Rural training under Medicare is hindered by low reimbursement and “gotcha” rules. Find out how we can better support rural training as we await overall GME Medicare reform:
- Another example of a "gotcha" rule is the Medicare policy known as the "Rotator Issue." Under this policy hospitals that took in residents for away rotations, even very briefly, have had very small caps and often a miniscule PRA set, even though the hospital doesn't have a residency program itself.
Teaching Health Center GME
An alternative to Medicare GME, this program supports primary care residency training through a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant program. Learn about this important and successful program and its need for permanence.
Veteran's Administration Graduate Medical Education Funding
In addition to Medicare, the Veterans Administration also supports graduate medical education by funding residency positions. Find out how new legislation and regulations may help family medicine residencies obtain new funding for residency positions.
Find out what primary care research is and how we can support primary care research funding at the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
AHRQ
AHRQ is an independent agency within the Department of Health and Human Services which has a mandate to support primary care research. It has supported Practice Based Research Networks (PBRNs) and independent investigator research in health services and primary care research, among other things.
PCORI
Established by the Affordable Care Act in 2010, PCORI is federally funded, yet is a non-federal organization which supports comparative effectiveness and patient-engaged research. Its authorization (along with the PECOR trust fund that supports it) is set to expire in 2019. We support its reauthorization in 2019.
Title VII Primary Care Training and Enhancement
- Find out about grant funding under this section of the Public Health Service Act which supports primary care departments, residencies, and faculty development.
- Find out how to support additional funding for this program.
