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AHA Before Senate Committee on Aging — the Doctor Is Out: How Washington's Rules Drove Physicians Out of Medicine
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides the hospital perspective on the issues impacting health care workforce burnout before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Fact Sheet: Federal Student Loan Limits for Graduate and Professional Programs
The AHA urges the Department of Education (DOE) to include a full range of health care post-baccalaureate professional degree programs in its definition of professional degrees in its One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) new borrowing limits for students seeking federal aid.
DOE Proposes Definition of Professional Students and Degree for New Student Loan Caps
The Department of Education (DOE) Jan. 29 issued a proposed rule that would define the terms “professional student” and “graduate student” for purposes of determining the amount of federal student loans available to students enrolled in certain degree programs.
Teaching Hospitals
There are over 1,000 teaching hospitals that directly employ 2.7 million people and are among the largest employers in their communities.
AHA Letter Supporting the Medical Student Education Authorization Act
AHA expreses support for the Medical Student Education Authorization Act (H.R. 5428).
AHA Supports Bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act
The American Hospital Association (AHA) expresses support for legislation, H.R. 3890, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. This bipartisan bill would add 14,000 Medicare-funded residency positions over seven years, thereby helping to alleviate ongoing physician shortages that threaten patients’ access to care.
AHA Comments on Senate Finance Committee Medicare-funded Physician Residency Draft Bill
AHA comments on draft Medicare graduate medical education (GME) reform package (KEL24743 MP2).
Fact Sheet: Increased Graduate Medical Education Needed to Preserve Access to Care
We urge Congress to increase the number of Medicare-supported GME residency positions. The AHA supports the bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2021 (H.R.2256/S.834) which adds 14,000 Medicare-funded residency slots over the next seven years.
Medical Education
In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress anticipated a surplus of physicians and capped the number of Medicare-funded physician training positions.
Factsheet: The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017
Background
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME