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Charles Rainey, MD, JD

JAMA. 1999;281:1761.

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Medicare reform and its affect on graduate medical education (GME) funding is likely to be one of the major legislative issues for physicians and medical students this year. The AMA held an open hearing on GME funding and the physician workforce in March 1999 to hear testimony from its constituents and from other groups. The AMA-RFS presented testimony, which included the following points.

Compensation for Teaching Physicians Should Support Education

The Health Care Financing Administration's rules for compensating physicians who teach and supervise residents need to be revised. The current rules, which were summarized in the June 25, 1997, Resident Forum column, require teaching physicians to be present during a key portion of a procedure and require detailed documentation in the medical record. Several hospitals have been audited and found in violation of these rules. These actions threaten teaching physicians who may respond by performing more procedures themselves, and thus deny residents valuable . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Chair, AMA-RFS
Milwaukee, Wis