New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- The Trump administration is considering exempting doctors and medical residents from the new $100,000 H-1B visa application fee after pushback from some of the biggest medical bodies, the White House notified on Monday.

The new fee, if applied to healthcare workers, was seen as a major threat to treatment accessibility, particularly in rural parts of America where there's already a shortage of providers.

"The Proclamation allows for potential exemptions, which can include physicians and medical residents," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in an email to Bloomberg.

The H-1B visa programme is a vital tool in hospital and healthcare systems, especially for recruiting doctors in remote parts of the country...