Require Medicare-funded GME hospitals to submit deidentified citizenship and immigration-status data on medical residents and direct CMS to report aggregate residency data annually to Congress.

The GME Transparency Act of 2026 would require hospitals participating in the Medicare-funded GME programs to submit deidentified information regarding the citizenship and immigration status of the medical residents in approved residency training programs ... [and] requires CMS to submit an annual nationwide report to Congress detailing aggregate residency data by state.

Steube introduced a bill that would mandate resident-status reporting from Medicare-funded graduate medical education hospitals and annual CMS reporting to Congress.

Rep. Steube Introduces Two Bills Targeting Transparency and Noncitizen Participation in Medicare-Funded Residency Programs – Congressman Steube
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introduced the GME Transparency Act of 2026 and the Our Doctors First Act of 2026, a two-bill package focused on increasing transparency in Medicare-funded graduate medical education (GME) programs and prohibiting Medicare GME payments attributable to individuals who are not U.S. citizens or nationals.

Steube introduced legislation to increase transparency in Medicare-funded residency programs.

Press Releases – Congressman Steube
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A bill to require hospitals receiving payment for direct graduate medical education costs under the Medicare program to report information with respect to the citizenship status of residents in an approved medical residency training program.

Introduces the GME Transparency Act of 2026, requiring Medicare-funded hospitals to report resident citizenship-status information and enabling CMS reporting to Congress.

GME-Bills.pdf
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The site’s latest-news list shows the May 20, 2026 entry for "Rep. Steube Introduces Two Bills Targeting Transparency and Noncitizen Participation in Medicare-Funded Residency Programs," followed by later June 2, 5, 9, 12, 15, and 16 items on unrelated subjects.

Current official news index shows the Medicare-residency proposal was publicly introduced, but there is no later follow-up item on the site within the lookback window.

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Press Releases – Congressman Steube
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Steube said he "today introduced the GME Transparency Act of 2026 and the Our Doctors First Act of 2026." The release says the GME Transparency Act "would require hospitals participating in the Medicare-funded GME programs to submit deidentified information regarding the citizenship and immigration status of the medical residents" and that CMS would "submit an annual nationwide report to Congress" with aggregate residency data.

Official announcement of the exact policy and a concrete legislative attempt in this Congress.

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Rep. Steube Introduces Two Bills Targeting Transparency and Noncitizen Participation in Medicare-Funded Residency Programs – Congressman Steube
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The bill text states that a hospital receiving Medicare DGME payments "shall submit to the Secretary such deidentified information" on residents, and that "[n]ot later than 270 days after the end of each fiscal year" the Secretary "shall submit to Congress a report" with aggregate residency data disaggregated by State.

The filed bill text matches the claim closely and shows it was introduced and referred to committee, but not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

GME-Bills.pdf
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