3.0.0 3166 2023-01-11T13:33:15Z 2023-01-11T13:33:15Z Senate S 2016-07-12 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2016-07-12T19:42:44Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016 114 4959 HR 2016-04-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2016-07-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2016-07-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2016-07-12 True Health Government studies and investigations Health care coverage and access Health personnel Surgery and anesthesia Health 00 2016-07-12 Introduced in Senate 2016-07-22T18:14:00Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including whether the health professional shortage area designation under the National Health Service Corps program accurately assesses adequacy of access or whether another measure or designation would be more appropriate.

HHS must consider potential methodologies for designating surgical health professional shortage areas.

]]> Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016 Display Title Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016 Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016 Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on the designation of surgical health professional shortage areas. Introduced in Senate 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s3166is/xml/BILLS-114s3166is.xml 2016-07-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.