June 8, 2007

Teaching Hospitals Fight Grant Cuts

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Teaching hospitals and other medical-education programs could lose at least $1.8-billion under regulatory changes proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but they will have at least a year to try to block the cuts.

The federal spending bill signed into law late last month included a provision supported by Sen. Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, requiring a one-year moratorium before such cuts could be imposed. The department, which has provided states with

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