YourVoice.Now Summary
Corporate BenefitsTransparency & AccountabilityHospitals would have to publish how many DO and MD applicants they accept into residency — or lose Medicare pay.
Corporate Benefits
- Medicare payments to non-reporting hospitals — Cut 2 percent for each year of missing data
Transparency & Accountability
- Residency reporting requirements — Hospitals must report DO and MD applicant and acceptance counts
- Public disclosure — HHS must publish each hospital's residency figures on a public website
The details
Hospitals that run medical residency programs would have to report how they treat two kinds of medical school graduates. One is osteopathic (DO) schools. The other is allopathic (MD) schools. Hospitals would report how many people applied and how many were accepted from each. They would also confirm they consider both, and that they accept either licensing exam — COMLEX or USMLE — at the applicant's choice. Health and Human Services would publish that information on a public website. Hospitals that skip a year of reporting would lose 2 percent of certain Medicare payments for each missed year. That penalty would start with discharges on or after October 1, 2026. The bill states it does not require hospitals to accept any set number of DO graduates.
Congressional Summary
Fair Access In Residency Act of 2025 or the FAIR Act of 2025This bill requires hospitals that receive graduate medical education (GME) payments under Medicare to report certain information about the composition of their medical residency training programs.Specifically, hospitals must provide to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (1) the number of applicants for residencies who are from osteopathic medical schools and from allopathic medical schools, (2) the number of applicants who are accepted from each of these types of medical schools, and (3) an affirmation that the hospital considers applicants from each of these types of medical schools and accepts specified related examination results, as appropriate. Hospitals that do not provide this information are subject to a 2% reduction in their GME payments.The CMS must post the information it receives on a public website.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-25
- Date Added
- 2026-07-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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