Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program

The summary for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Health Resources and Services Administration, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program: This announcement solicits applications for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program.  Federal funding for graduate medical education (GME) is primarily provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Prior to the enactment of the CHGME Payment Program, children's teaching hospitals received a disproportionately low amount of Federal GME funding when compared to teaching hospitals that serve adult patients.  The purpose of the CHGME Payment Program is to compensate for the disparity in the level of Federal GME funding for freestanding children's teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.  The CHGME Payment Program is administered by the Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Federal Grant Title: Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program
Federal Agency Name: Health Resources and Services Administration
Grant Categories: Health
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-17-006
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 322494
CFDA Descriptions: Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program
Current Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2016
Original Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2016
Posted Date: May 16, 2016
Creation Date: May 16, 2016
Archive Date: Sep 13, 2016
Total Program Funding: $295,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $0
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $0
Expected Number of Awards: 65
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Category Explanation
https://grants.hrsa.gov/2010/Web2External/Interface/FundingCycle/ExternalView.aspx?fCycleID=ffbb8736-c2bc-4642-805e-0ffd3d65686d
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility
There are two categories of children’s hospitals that may be eligible for CHGME payments in FY 2017, depending on the funding appropriated to the program – “Currently Eligible Hospitals” or “Newly Qualified Hospitals.”  New hospitals that are applying for the CHGME program may be hospitals that are eligible as a “Newly Qualified Hospital” or hospitals that are new to the CHGME program but qualify under the “Currently Eligible Hospitals” requirements.

Currently Eligible Hospitals: Includes Children’s hospitals that meet the original eligibility requirements for CHGME payments that were established prior to the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013. These children’s hospitals must meet the following criteria: 

It participates in an approved graduate medical education (GME) residency training program;

It has a Medicare provider payment agreement;

It is excluded from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) under section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii)[1] of the Social Security Act and its accompanying regulations; and

It is a “freestanding” children’s hospital.

Newly Qualified Hospitals: As per the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, a freestanding hospital may be eligible for CHGME payments depending on the level of funding appropriated to the program if it meets the following criteria:   

It has a Medicare payment agreement and is excluded from the Medicare inpatient hospital prospective payment system (IPPS) pursuant to section 1886(d)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act and its accompanying regulations;

Its inpatients are predominantly individuals under 18 years of age;

It has an approved medical residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act;

It is not otherwise qualified to receive payments under this section or section 1886(h) of the Social Security Act. 

For those free-standing children’s hospitals that met the above requirements as of April 7, 2014, and the Secretary had not previously determined an average number of FTE residents under section 1886(h)(4) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary may establish such number of FTE residents for the purposes of calculating CHGME program payments.

Any public or private nonprofit and for-profit children's teaching hospital with an accredited residency training program which meets all of the above requirements for either category of eligibility may apply, though final e
Grant Announcement Contact
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