119th Congress
S. 2715
FAIR Act of 2025
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Steve Daines(R-MT)
- Introduced
- Sep 4, 2025
- Policy area
- Health
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Finance
- Official text
- Introduced in Senate · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (8)
Original cosponsors (2)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Added later (6)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) · Sep 29, 2025
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) · Dec 3, 2025
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · Dec 15, 2025
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT) · Dec 15, 2025
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA) · Dec 17, 2025
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · Aug 7, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in Senate” version
Fair Access In Residency Act of 2025 or the FAIR Act of 2025
This bill requires hospitals that receive graduate medical education (GME) payments under Medicare to report certain information about the composition of their medical residency training programs.
Specifically, hospitals must provide to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (1) the number of applicants for residencies who are from osteopathic medical schools and from allopathic medical schools, (2) the number of applicants who are accepted from each of these types of medical schools, and (3) an affirmation that the hospital considers applicants from each of these types of medical schools and accepts specified related examination results, as appropriate. Hospitals that do not provide this information are subject to a 2% reduction in their GME payments.
The CMS must post the information it receives on a public website.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Sep 4, 2025 · Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. - Sep 4, 2025
Introduced in Senate