The Greater New York Hospital Association Is Pressing the US Department of Homeland Security to Exempt Healthcare Personnel From a new $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visa Petitions
Politico
In a letter this week to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the association argued the policy could exacerbate the country’s health care workforce shortage by making it more expensive for hospitals to train medical residents and hire physicians who commit to working in underserved areas as a condition of their visa.
“The need for additional physicians is critical and there are not enough US citizen doctors to fill the need,” GNYHA President Kenneth Raske wrote in the letter…
…And New York is a major contributor to the country’s physician workforce: Almost half of medical residents who train in the state end up practicing elsewhere in the U.S., according to the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies.