OU's College of Medicine will not be receiving reimbursement to fund doctor training programs after a recent decision from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Norman Transcript reports.
"The state’s medical schools and tuition reimbursement programs won’t be getting their recently stripped federal funding restored, the overseeing federal agency decided recently.
The decision came after the state’s Health Care Authority had requested the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reconsider its December decision to cut off about $110 million a year in funding to doctor training programs.
In an April 17 letter sent to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the federal agency said there is no statutory authority to use Medicaid funding to support graduate medical education and to provide direct support for university overhead and loan repayment expenses."
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