Eliminating Residents Increases the Cost of Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Academic health centers are facing a potential reduction in Medicare financing for graduate medical education (GME). Both the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Deficit Commission) have suggested cutting approximately half the funding that teaching hospitals receive for indirect medical education. Because of the effort that goes into teaching trainees, who are only transient employees, hospital executives often see teaching programs as a drain on resources.

Objective

In light of the possibility of a Medicare cut to GME programs, we undertook an analysis to assess the financial risk of training programs to our institution and the possibility of saving money by reducing resident positions.

Methods

SUBMITTER: DeMarco DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559250 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature