Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program
Forecasted Federal grant Posted
- Opportunity number
- HRSA-27-016
- Agency
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Health Resources and Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications expected due
- Award size
- $32,000 to $28,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Expected posting
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Lisa Flach-Fulcher aflach-fulcher@hrsa.gov (301) 443-0365
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration is forecasting applications for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program, which funds graduate medical education at freestanding children's hospitals; no hard application deadline is posted.
Eligibility is limited to freestanding children's hospitals that meet statutory criteria under one of two categories. Currently Eligible Hospitals must have been established prior to the Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, hold a Medicare payment agreement, be excluded from Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System pursuant to Social Security Act section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii), serve predominantly patients under 18 years of age, and participate in an approved GME residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A). Newly Qualified Hospitals must meet eligibility requirements under the 2013 Reauthorization Act: hold a Medicare payment agreement, be excluded from Medicare IPPS under SSA section 1886(d)(1)(B), serve predominantly patients under 18 years of age, operate an approved medical residency training program, and not otherwise qualify for payments under 42 U.S.C. 256e or SSA section 1886(h).
No cost share is required. The program compensates for disparity in federal graduate medical education funding between freestanding children's hospitals and other teaching hospitals by supporting direct and indirect medical education expenses. The CHGME Payment Program uses statutory formulas for direct medical education and indirect medical education payments. A quality bonus system recognizes awardees meeting high training standards and incentivizes hospitals supporting pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, non-pediatric residents including dentistry residents, care for vulnerable and underserved children, and innovative pediatric research. Award decisions are made approximately 120 to 180 days after application receipt. Recipients must maintain grant accounting records for three years after submitting the Federal Financial Report and are subject to Full-Time Equivalent Assessment audits. The program is assigned CFDA 93.255.
Forecast synopsis
The Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program funds freestanding, children's hospitals. The money helps their graduate medical education (GME) programs train resident physicians and dentists.
Eligibility
Currently Eligible HospitalsIncludes freestanding children"s hospitals that meet the original eligibility requirements for CHGME payments, as described in the CHGME Federal Register published on March 1, 2001 (66 FRN 12940), established prior to the Children"s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013. A children"s teaching hospital is considered "freestanding" if it does not operate under a Medicare hospital provider number assigned to a larger health care entity that receives Medicare GME payments. These freestanding children"s hospitals must meet all the following criteria: Have a Medicare payment agreement.Are excluded from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) pursuant to section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the Social Security Act (SSA) and its accompanying regulations. The exclusion of children"s hospitals from IPPS set forth under section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the SSA states this exclusion exists for hospitals whose inpatients are predominantly individuals under 18 years of age.Participate in an approved GME residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the SSA. It is a "freestanding" children's hospital. Newly Qualified HospitalsAs per the Children"s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, a freestanding hospital may be eligible for CHGME payments depending on the level of funding appropriated to the program if it meets all the following criteria: Has a Medicare payment agreement.Is excluded from Medicare IPPS pursuant to section 1886(d)(1)(B) of the SSA and its accompanying regulations.Its inpatients are predominantly people under 18 years of age.Has an approved medical residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the SSA.Is not otherwise qualified to receive payments under 42 U.S.C. § 256e or section 1886(h) of the SSA as a Currently Eligible Hospital. For those freestanding children"s hospitals that met the above requirements for Newly Qualified Hospitals as of April 7, 2014, and the Secretary had not previously determined an average number of full-time equivalent (FTE) residents under section 1886(h)(4) of the SSA, the Secretary may establish such number of FTE residents for the purposes of calculating CHGME Payment Program payments.
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