The Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program compensates for the disparity in federal graduate medical education funding for freestanding childrens teaching hospitals as compared to other types of teaching hospitals who primarily serve adults and receive federal graduate medical education funding through the Medicare Program. The CHGME Payment Program supports graduate medical education in freestanding childrens teaching hospitals to train physicians across multiple specialties and to provide quality care to vulnerable and underserved children.