GME Transparency Act of 2026
Requires Medicare-paid residency programs to report residents’ citizenship and immigration status for a state-by-state report to Congress.
In the Senate Finance Committee since Sept. 30, 2026, 8 days after it was introduced. Most bills never leave committee.
- INTRODUCEDINTROSEP 30, 2026
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What the bill would do, and why it matters
Graduate medical education is the training doctors receive after medical school in residency programs. The bill would require hospitals receiving Medicare payments for that training to report deidentified information about residents’ citizenship or immigration status. The Secretary would send Congress an annual report with counts and percentages by state, and failure to report could affect a program’s eligibility under the payment definition.
- INTRODUCED ONLY This bill has been introduced and possibly referred to a committee, but it has not passed any vote. Most introduced bills never become law — they die in committee without a hearing.
- DATA NOTE No Congressional Research Service summary was available.
- Require hospitals to report residents’ status
Hospitals receiving Medicare payment for direct graduate medical education costs would submit deidentified information about residents in their approved training programs. The Secretary would determine what information is needed for the congressional report.
- Report resident counts to Congress
The Secretary would report the number and percentage of residents in programs that submitted information, broken down by state and by five citizenship or immigration-status categories.
- Provide a standardized reporting form
The Secretary would make a standardized form available to hospitals with qualifying residency or postgraduate medical training programs.
- Link reporting to Medicare payment eligibility
A hospital’s residency or postgraduate training program would not count under the relevant definition for direct graduate medical education payments if the hospital did not submit the required information.
The bill would make information about residents’ citizenship and immigration status part of the reporting tied to Medicare direct graduate medical education payments. The resulting state-by-state report would give Congress counts and percentages across the listed status categories.
The reporting requirement also carries a payment consequence for hospitals that do not comply, so the bill would affect both the information collected and whether a program meets the relevant definition for those payments.
Written from the bill text.
The path it took, step by step
- IntroducedSEP 30, 2026SENATESEP 30, 2026By Sen. MoodyReferred to Finance
- SAME DAYNOWSenate committeeSEP 30, 2026FINANCE NOWSEP 30, 2026In committee for 8 daysNo hearing yet
- 8 DAYS SO FARPassed the Senate—SENATE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- House committee—HOUSE—
- Passed the House—HOUSE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- Resolve differencesONLY IF NEEDEDBOTH CHAMBERSONLY IF NEEDEDSkipped if the other chamber passes the same text
- Signed into law—PRESIDENT—10 days to sign or veto
- SEP 302026SEP 30, 2026REFERREDRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- SEP 302026SEP 30, 2026INTRODUCEDSENATEIntroduced in Senate
At day 8, this bill is already older than 3% of the laws passed this Congress were when they were signed.
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