Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025
Congress Proposes Bill to Boost Funding for Nursing Schools and Hospital Training Programs
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- This bill changes how Medicare pays hospitals for training nurses and other health professionals. It allows hospitals to count more of their spending—both direct costs like teacher salaries and indirect costs like building maintenance—as expenses that the government helps cover.
- The plan expands which organizations can get this money. It would cover costs from 'related entities,' meaning if a hospital is part of a larger health system or owns a separate nursing school, those training costs can now be included in Medicare reports.
- The bill stops the government from trying to take back money already paid to hospitals for these training programs. If the government took back money for these types of costs in the last six years, it would have to refund that money to the hospitals.
- This policy aims to address the national nursing shortage. By making it easier and cheaper for hospitals to run their own training programs, the bill helps schools graduate more health care workers to fill empty jobs.
Impact Analysis
Personal Impact
Life & Work
Smaller community hospitals and health systems that run nursing education programs would benefit from broader Medicare reimbursement for their training costs. Previously, some of these costs — especially those shared with related entities or system-owned schools — may not have been counted as allowable expenses. The bill also prohibits the government from clawing back past payments and requires refunds for money recouped in the last six years, which is a direct financial benefit to these hospital operators.
Programs
Disabilities
Broader Impacts
Milestones
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
Votes
No votes have been recorded for this legislation yet.
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Source Information
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Congressional Bill
Official Title
Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025
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