Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2025 | ChamberLight
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IN COMMITTEE· 119TH CONGRESS
House BillHR 2107Health
Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2025
INTRO MAR 14· LAST ACTION MAR 14
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WHAT THE BILL DOES
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This bill matters because it directly impacts how children's hospitals are funded to train the next generation of pediatricians and child specialists, which is crucial for ensuring children across the country have access to specialized medical care. By reauthorizing this program, it helps maintain a stable workforce of doctors dedicated to children's health.
However, the new restriction tying funding to a hospital's policies on gender-affirming care for minors introduces a significant change. If this bill becomes law, children's hospitals might have to choose between providing certain medical treatments for minors (as defined in the bill) and receiving essential federal funds for doctor training. This could alter how and where minors can access specific types of medical care, potentially leading to varied access to care based on state or hospital policies and impacting the financial stability of some children's hospitals.
KEY PROVISIONS
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PROVISION 01
Reauthorizes the program of federal payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs until fiscal year 2030.
This ensures the continued availability of federal funds for training pediatric doctors and specialists for several more years.
PROVISION 02
Prohibits these federal payments to children's hospitals for a fiscal year if, during the preceding fiscal year, they furnished 'specified procedures and drugs' to individuals under 18 years of age.
This creates a condition that could lead to children's hospitals losing significant federal funding if they provide certain types of gender-affirming care to minors.
PROVISION 03
Defines 'specified procedures and drugs' to include various surgeries and hormone treatments intended to change a minor's body to no longer correspond to their sex at birth, while also providing exceptions for conditions like precocious puberty and genetic disorders of sex development.
This clearly outlines which medical services for minors would lead to a loss of federal funding for children's hospitals and specifies which services are still permitted under the program.
PROVISION 04
Authorizes specific funding levels of $124 million and $261 million annually for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for the children's hospital GME program.
This sets the financial commitment for the program over its reauthorization period, ensuring a defined level of federal investment.
This bill matters because it directly impacts how children's hospitals are funded to train the next generation of pediatricians and child specialists, which is crucial for ensuring children across the country have access to specialized medical care. By reauthorizing this program, it helps maintain a stable workforce of doctors dedicated to children's health.
However, the new restriction tying funding to a hospital's policies on gender-affirming care for minors introduces a significant change. If this bill becomes law, children's hospitals might have to choose between providing certain medical treatments for minors (as defined in the bill) and receiving essential federal funds for doctor training. This could alter how and where minors can access specific types of medical care, potentially leading to varied access to care based on state or hospital policies and impacting the financial stability of some children's hospitals.
KEY PROVISIONS
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Reauthorizes the program of federal payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs until fiscal year 2030.
This ensures the continued availability of federal funds for training pediatric doctors and specialists for several more years.
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Prohibits these federal payments to children's hospitals for a fiscal year if, during the preceding fiscal year, they furnished 'specified procedures and drugs' to individuals under 18 years of age.
This creates a condition that could lead to children's hospitals losing significant federal funding if they provide certain types of gender-affirming care to minors.
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Defines 'specified procedures and drugs' to include various surgeries and hormone treatments intended to change a minor's body to no longer correspond to their sex at birth, while also providing exceptions for conditions like precocious puberty and genetic disorders of sex development.
This clearly outlines which medical services for minors would lead to a loss of federal funding for children's hospitals and specifies which services are still permitted under the program.
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Authorizes specific funding levels of $124 million and $261 million annually for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for the children's hospital GME program.
This sets the financial commitment for the program over its reauthorization period, ensuring a defined level of federal investment.
Payments to children's hospitals for direct graduate medical education (Title III, Public Health Service Act)
discretionary
2026 through 2030
$261,000,000
Payments to children's hospitals for indirect graduate medical education (Title III, Public Health Service Act)
discretionary
2026 through 2030
GLOSSARY
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Graduate Medical Education (GME)
The specialized training that doctors receive after medical school, typically in a hospital setting, to become specialists in areas like pediatrics or surgery.
Public Health Service Act
A comprehensive federal law that governs many public health programs, services, and agencies in the United States.
Reauthorize
To extend the legal authority for a government program or agency to continue operating beyond its original expiration date.
Specified procedures and drugs
In this bill, a defined list of surgeries and hormone treatments, primarily related to gender transition, that if provided to minors, would make a children's hospital ineligible for federal GME payments.
Gender dysphoria
A term used to describe significant distress or discomfort that a person may experience when their gender identity (their internal sense of being male, female, both, or neither) differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Precocious puberty
A medical condition where a child's body begins developing adult characteristics (puberty) much earlier than the typical age range, usually before age 8 for girls and age 9 for boys.
ACTION TIMELINE
2 EVENTS
MAR 14, 25
Introduced in House
INTROREFERRAL
MAR 14, 25
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Medical conditions, sometimes referred to as intersex conditions, where a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit typical definitions of female or male due to chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical variations.
