93.255: Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program

93.255

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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [HHS]

Aug. 25, 2022

Aug. 25, 2022

Freestanding children’s hospitals receive little to no Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding from Medicare because children’s hospitals have a low Medicare caseload. The purpose of the CHGME Payment Program is to compensate for the disparity in the level of Federal GME funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals. The CHGME program supports the education and training of future pediatricians, pediatric sub-specialists, and other non-pediatric residents in freestanding children’s teaching hospitals, including the training of residents in pediatric dentistry and pediatric psychology.

C - Direct Payments for Specified Use

A children’s hospital is eligible to apply for CHGME Payment Program funding if it participates in an approved GME program; has a Medicare Provider Agreement; is excluded from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS); and operates as a freestanding children’s teaching hospital. A freestanding children’s teaching hospital does not operate under a Medicare hospital provider number assigned to a larger health care entity that receives Medicare GME payments. A hospital remains eligible for payments as long as it trains residents as a freestanding children’s hospital during the federal fiscal year that HRSA makes CHGME program payments.

Any public or private nonprofit and profit freestanding children's teaching hospital with an accredited residency training program which meets all eligibility requirements may apply.

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