Sponsors (4)
The bill provides a modest, multi-year funding boost that helps train more primary care clinicians and offers planning stability, but its small scale imposes a minor taxpayer cost and is unlikely to solve large regional primary care shortages.
Low-income, underserved, and rural patients may see improved access to primary care as modestly greater workforce capacity is developed.
Primary care training programs and clinicians-in-training receive $1,000,000 more per year from FY2025–FY2030, enabling additional clinician training positions.
Hospitals, health systems, and training program administrators gain multi-year funding stability through 2030, improving workforce development planning.
The modest annual increase is unlikely to substantially reduce widespread primary care shortages in many areas, limiting measurable improvements in access.
Taxpayers bear the $1,000,000 annual cost through FY2030, increasing federal spending obligations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Raises the annual authorized funding for a primary care training program by $1,000,000 and extends the covered fiscal years to FY2025–FY2030.
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funding for grants and contracts for primary care training and enhancement, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 4, 2025 by Zach Nunn · Last progress February 4, 2025
Increases the annual authorized funding for a primary care physician training program by $1,000,000 and extends the covered fiscal years. The change replaces the previous funding level specified for FY2021–FY2025 with a new annual amount of $49,924,000 for each of FY2025–FY2030, raising support for training more primary care doctors.