Nearly half of the nation’s teaching hospitals will receive Medicare payment increases associated with direct graduate medical education (DGME) under legislation enacted in December 2000. And because they generally educate larger numbers of residents, members of the AAMC’s Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH) affected by the legislation will receive an average increase three times that of other teaching hospitals.
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Impact of 2000 Medicare Legislation on Teaching Hospitals' Medicare Direct Graduate Medical Education Payments
May 2001 Analysis in Brief