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Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program

Federal funding opportunity HRSA-27-016 from Health Resources and Services Administration.

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Posted
July 8, 2026
Closes
See announcement
Award ceiling
$28,000,000
Award floor
$32,000
Program funding
$371,000,000
Expected awards
59
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
93.255
Category
Health
Archives
September 30, 2026

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.255 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$369M
FY2025 obligated
$369.6M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$205.5M
Awards in window
59

Top recipients: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's Hospital Corporation, the, Children's National Medical Center, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Texas Children's Hospital

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed July 2026

Synopsis

The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program funds freestanding, children's hospitals. The money helps their graduate medical education (GME) programs train resident physicians and dentists.

Who can apply

​​Currently Eligible Hospitals​Includes freestanding children"s hospitals that meet the original eligibility requirements for CHGME payments, as described in the CHGME Federal Register published on March 1, 2001 (66 FRN 12940), established prior to the Children"s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013. A children"s teaching hospital is considered "freestanding" if it does not operate under a Medicare hospital provider number assigned to a larger health care entity that receives Medicare GME payments. These freestanding children"s hospitals must meet all the following criteria: Have a Medicare payment agreement.Are excluded from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) pursuant to section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the Social Security Act (SSA) and its accompanying regulations. The exclusion of children"s hospitals from IPPS set forth under section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the SSA states this exclusion exists for hospitals whose inpatients are predominantly individuals under 18 years of age.Participate in an approved GME residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the SSA. It is a "freestanding" children's hospital. ​Newly Qualified Hospitals​As per the Children"s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, a freestanding hospital may be eligible for CHGME payments depending on the level of funding appropriated to the program if it meets all the following criteria: Has a Medicare payment agreement.Is excluded from Medicare IPPS pursuant to section 1886(d)(1)(B) of the SSA and its accompanying regulations.Its inpatients are predominantly people under 18 years of age.Has an approved medical residency training program as defined in section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the SSA.Is not otherwise qualified to receive payments under 42 U.S.C. § 256e or section 1886(h) of the SSA as a Currently Eligible Hospital. ​For those freestanding children"s hospitals that met the above requirements for Newly Qualified Hospitals as of April 7, 2014,…

How to apply

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Agency contact: Lisa Flach-Fulcher, MBA, MS · AFlach-Fulcher@hrsa.gov · 301.443.0365

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