About this event

Please join the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV for an educational series on graduate medical education and the development of community-based programs. This series is a four-part program that will focus on community impact, finance, and GME legislation and reform. 

Dates of the series are Sept  16th, Sept 30th, Oct 7th, and Oct 14th 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Register at https://unr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpceuorDgpGtAGQRYMThIE9GWlEf3B3AN7

Sept 30th – Louis Sanner, MD Finance Basics presentation and Q & A
Part 1: Medicare GME Payments - Background and Basics - Understand the purposes and processes involved in Medicare GME payments to hospitals and thus to residency programs

- Determine how much money any hospital in the United States received in Medicare GME payments each year

- Avoid common pitfalls in claiming Medicare GME payments and pursue strategies to maximize payments and avoid adverse Medicare audit judgments

- Medicaid and state support

- Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payment

Oct 7th – Louis Sanner, MD Finance Advanced presentation and Q & A
Part 2: Medicare GME Updates and opportunities for reform!

- Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) 2021 – provisions affecting Medicare GME

- How “good ideas” become laws and become Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS.gov) rules

- Teaching Health Center (THC) update

- New rules: Moonlighting rules for residents (allows inpatient moonlighting)

- New rules: Displaced residents from closing hospitals or closing programs

- Reform overview
- The Rural Physicians Workforce Production (RPWP) act

Additional information

• Attendance type: Virtual – No in-person attendance is required.