Though the report does not specifically address physician workforce shortages, it does provide recommendations for reforming the GME payment system and creating a new infrastructure necessary to support future changes. Here are five recommendations from the report, according to the AGA.
• Maintain Medicare GME and work to modernize GME payment based on performance and innovation
• Build a two-part Medicare GME financing structure based on differences in funding for operational aspects and transformational purposes
• Establish a GME Policy Council in HHS for strategic oversight
• Establish a GME Center within CMS for the management operational aspects
• Modernize payment methodology by changing GME funding streams, implementing performance-based payment and assigning funding based on a per-resident amount.
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