# Medicare Program; Medicare Graduate Medical Education Affiliation Provisions for Teaching Hospitals in Certain Emergency Situations
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Interim final rule with comment period. · Published 2006-04-12 · Effective 2005-08-29 · 71 FR 18654
## Document
- **Document number:** 06-3492
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 71 FR 18654
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 412
- **Publication date:** 2006-04-12
- **Effective date:** 2005-08-29
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1531-IFC
## Abstract

This interim final rule with comment period will modify the current Graduate Medical Education (GME) regulations as they apply to Medicare GME affiliations to provide for greater flexibility during times of disaster. Specifically, this rule will implement the emergency Medicare GME affiliated group provisions that will address issues that may be faced by certain teaching hospitals in the event that residents who would otherwise have trained at a hospital in an emergency area (as that term is defined in section 1135(g) of the Social Security Act (the Act)) are relocated to alternate training sites.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/04/12/06-3492/medicare-program-medicare-graduate-medical-education-affiliation-provisions-for-teaching-hospitals)
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