Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program | HRSA 24 020

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The Children s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program is a federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), administered through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and its Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW). The program exists to address a long-running funding imbalance in how the federal government supports graduate medical education (GME), especially residency training. In practice, most federal GME support flows through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to full-service teaching hospitals that mainly treat adults. Because freestanding children s hospitals typically have very low Medicare patient volume, they receive little to no Medicare-based GME support, even though they train pediatric residents and other physicians who care for children. CHGME is designed to help close that gap by providing grant payments to eligible children s teaching hospitals.

The opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant (Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-24-020) under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) 93.255, with a focus area categorized broadly as Health. HRSA anticipates making awards to a set of eligible institutions, with the notice indicating an expected number of awards of 62. The posting shows an original application closing date of July 14, 2023, and a creation date of June 1, 2023. While the listing shows an award ceiling of 0, that figure in these summaries often reflects that funding levels are determined through program-specific formulas, appropriations, or other calculations described in the full notice rather than a simple maximum cap presented in the synopsis.

Eligibility is summarized as "Others," with the note that applicants should review the full opportunity text for clarification. In this program, that generally points to freestanding children s teaching hospitals that meet the statutory and program requirements for CHGME participation, rather than a broad range of typical nonprofit or academic applicants. The core expectation is that participating hospitals are engaged in training residents and can document qualifying training activity in a way that aligns with HRSA s CHGME rules.

At a practical level, the program is meant to strengthen the pediatric physician training pipeline by supporting the institutions that shoulder the cost of training residents in children s hospitals without receiving the same Medicare GME revenue stream that adult-serving teaching hospitals typically rely on. The notice directs applicants to review the Program Requirements and Expectations section (referenced under Award Administration Information) for the specific operational, reporting, and compliance details tied to receiving and managing CHGME payments.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.255.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 01, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 14, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 62 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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