Becker's Healthcare December 19, 2025
CMS has awarded 400 additional Medicare-funded residency positions to 135 hospitals across 37 states, an effort that aims to further address the nation’s growing physician shortage.
About 62% of the new slots will support primary care and psychiatry programs, CMS said in a news release shared with Becker’s. The distribution marks the fourth round of graduate medical education positions funded under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and the first under the 2023 version. With this round, CMS has allocated more than half of the 1,200...







