1. Interim Final Rule with Comment Period 1531-IFC
Title: Medicare Program; Medicare Graduate Medical Education Affiliation Provisions for Teaching Hospitals in Certain Emergency Situations
Publication Date: 04/12/2006
Description: This interim final rule with comment period will modify the current Graduate Medical Education (GME) regulations as they apply to Medicare GME affiliations to provide for greater flexibility during times of disaster. Specifically, this rule will implement the emergency Medicare GME affiliated group provisions that will address issues that may be faced by certain teaching hospitals in the event that residents who would otherwise have trained at a hospital in an emergency area (as that term is defined in section 1135(g) of the Social Security Act (the Act)) are relocated to alternate training sites.
2. Final Rule 1531-F
Title: Medicare Program; Revision of the Deadline for Submission of Emergency Graduate Medical Education Affiliation Agreements
Publication Date: 07/06/2006
Description: This final rule responds to comments on and revises the deadline for submission of the 2006 emergency Medicare graduate medical education (GME) affiliation agreements. The deadlines to submit the emergency Medicare GME affiliation agreements for the 2005 through 2006 and 2006 through 2007 academic years are changed from on or before June 30, 2006 and July 1, 2006, respectively, to on or before October 9, 2006.