Hospitals would report medical residents’ citizenship status for Medicare funding

Hospitals would send the federal health secretary resident information without identifying individual residents. The requirement would cover hospitals receiving Medicare payments for direct medical residency training costs. The secretary would decide which information is needed for the report to Congress. A program whose hospital fails to report as required would not count as approved for Medicare’s direct medical training payments. Reports would be due within 180 days after each fiscal year ends, starting with the first fiscal year beginning after enactment.

The federal health secretary would send Congress a yearly report on medical residents’ citizenship and immigration status. The report would give counts and percentages by state across the listed citizenship and lawful immigration categories. The report would cover programs that submitted information for that fiscal year. Reports to Congress would be due within 270 days after each fiscal year ends, starting with the first fiscal year beginning after enactment.