End H-1B Now Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The End H-1B Now Act changes Medicare graduate medical education reimbursement rules, despite the title referring to H-1B. It amends Social Security Act section 1886(h)(5)(A), which defines approved medical residency training programs for Medicare payment purposes. For cost-reporting periods beginning on or after enactment, an approved program would no longer include any program that trains an individual who is an alien under the Immigration and Nationality Act. In practice, a teaching hospital or residency program that trains noncitizen physicians could lose Medicare GME treatment for that program.
Who Benefits and How
Supporters of reserving federally supported residency slots for United States citizens benefit because the bill uses Medicare payment rules to pressure programs away from training noncitizens. United States citizen medical graduates may benefit if programs respond by reserving more slots for citizen trainees. Immigration-restriction advocates benefit from a federal funding lever that reaches graduate medical education without directly rewriting visa law.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Teaching hospitals and residency programs bear a major financial and staffing risk if training any noncitizen makes a program ineligible for Medicare GME support. Noncitizen medical graduates, including foreign medical graduates and other alien trainees, face reduced access to residency slots. Medicare administrators must enforce the new exclusion in cost reports. Patients in underserved areas could face workforce risk if hospitals reduce residency capacity or lose international medical graduates who often serve shortage specialties or regions.
Key Provisions
- Amends Medicare’s approved medical residency training program definition.
- Excludes any program that trains an alien as defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
- Applies to cost-reporting periods beginning on or after enactment.
- Uses Medicare GME payment eligibility rather than direct visa rules to discourage training noncitizen residents.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Excludes any residency training program that trains an alien, as defined by immigration law, from the Medicare graduate medical education definition of an approved medical residency training program for cost-reporting periods beginning after enactment.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Immigration, Medical Education, Medicare
Primary Purpose
Excludes any residency training program that trains an alien, as defined by immigration law, from the Medicare graduate medical education definition of an approved medical residency training program for cost-reporting periods beginning after enactment.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Supporters of citizen-only federally supported residency slots
- United States citizen medical graduates
- Immigration-restriction advocates
Identified Costs
- Teaching hospitals
- Residency programs
- Noncitizen medical graduates
- Foreign medical graduates
- Medicare administrators
- Patients in underserved areas
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Ms. Greene of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was …
Stakeholder Effects
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Teaching hospitals and Medicare-funded residency programs
Foreign medical graduates and other noncitizen residency trainees
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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