Medicare pays health centers to train advanced practice nurses
H.R. 10410 — Educating Future Nurses Act · Filed by Lauren Underwood (D-IL) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a new program that pays health centers to train advanced practice nurses. These nurses include nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse-midwives. Health centers work with nursing schools and community health clinics to form training hubs. Medicare pays health centers for each student trained. The program focuses on areas that need more nurses.
Who it affects
Health centers, nursing schools, and community health clinics get paid to train nurses. People in underserved and rural areas may gain access to more advanced practice nurses. The program uses money from Medicare trust funds, which could affect other Medicare services.
One thing to notice
Health centers only get paid for training more nurses than they trained in 2024 and 2025. This may stop them from training many more nurses later.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Sep 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Sep 16, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- Medicare — The government health insurance program for people age 65 and older
- Medicare trust funds — Money set aside to pay for Medicare services and care
- underserved and rural areas — Places with few doctors and nurses, often far from cities
- clinical nurse specialists — Nurses with extra training in a specific area of health care
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (13,490 characters) on Sep 23, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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