119th Congress
H.R. 10707: Internationally Trained Physicians Assistance Act of 2026
To address barriers immigrants and refugees face to entering the health care workforce, and for other purposes.
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Summary
This bill authorizes grants and makes other changes to facilitate the practice of medicine by internationally trained physicians who are lawfully present in the United States and graduated from a medical school outside of the United States or Canada.
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services may award grants for states and territories to
- establish or expand programs that allow such physicians to practice medicine under the supervision of a licensed physician for a limited duration, as determined by the state, while they are completing required examinations; and
- provide assistance (e.g., paying examination costs) for such physicians.
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The bill also exempts under certain circumstances such physicians from the cap on full-time equivalent residents that is otherwise applicable for purposes of graduate medical education payments under Medicare.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Raja Krishnamoorthi D-ILOriginal
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History
- Introduced in the House by Adam Smith.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.