Medicare GME
	n Medicare’s share in funding teaching hospitals includes residency training support under Part A(hospital services) commonly referred to as Graduate Medical Education(GME) n Medicare GME has two components: Direct Graduate Medical Education(D-GME) and Indirect Medical Education(IME) u IME was created to compensate for factors that increase teaching hospitals costs such as treating a more severely ill patient population, offering a wider range of services and technology, providing more diagnosis and therapeutic services to certain types of patients, and allowing clinical inefficiencies as residents learn their profession(such as the ordering of more tests than the norm)