Think Tank: Draft Medicare GME Reform Bill Overlooks Structural Funding Flaws

A bipartisan Senate proposal to reform Medicare’s graduate medical education (GME) program is a “step in the right direction” to address the country’s physician shortage, but it falls short of the structural reforms needed to fix outdated Medicare funding formulas, inequitable residency distribution, and financial disincentives for training primary care doctors in rural and underserved areas, according to feedback on the draft bill published Wednesday (Jan. 29) by the think tank Niskanen Center. The draft legislation unveiled in December by...