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Many residency positions are profit-generating without any federal subsidy - the CMS payment is just gravy on the biscuit.
IMHO, to the extent Congress wants to subsidize GME, they should do so in a way that generates more societal benefit.
Children’s hospitals generally don’t care for Medicare beneficiaries or receive CMS subsidies, so some are are subsidized through a different program (CHGME).
Those subsidies are ~50% of what CMS pays per resident. Here are the actual amounts received for the 59 CHGME hospitals.
ALT Table from the Congressional Research Service.
ALT Table from the Congressional Research Service.
ALT Table from the Congressional Research Service.
ALT Table from the Congressional Research Service.
Again, this is the overall average… so many hospitals receive less. But some receive more.
More on the complexities of the calculations here:
thesheriffofsodium.com/2022/…
Entrepreneurship is alive & well among recent grads from our MD program! Med students in the Class of 2023 were founders or co-founders of 3 of the 6 finalists in the 23rd Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.
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ALT Nina Valenzuela is a co-founder of Liminal, a finalist in the Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition. From left, are Marcus Yuen, Kelly Luu, Seiyu Wang, Valenzuela and fellow co-founder Ryan Sellinger.
ALT Grant Parrelli was a finalist in the Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition with his company, Professionally Proud.
ALT Kristen Kelly, left, and her sister-in-law, Sara DiBernardo, presented for their company, Totelly Lined, during the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneur Competition and captured the People’s Choice award.
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