3.0.0 1351 2023-01-11T13:37:37Z 2023-01-11T13:37:37Z Senate S 2017-06-14 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-06-14T15:50:39Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 115 2906 HR 2017-06-16 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2017-06-14 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-06-14 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 2017-06-14 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2018-06-25 False W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2018-11-13 False C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2018-12-19 False Health Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Health care coverage and access Health information and medical records Health personnel Surgery and anesthesia Health 00 2017-06-14 Introduced in Senate 2017-09-20T19:01:17Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including: (1) whether the health professional shortage area designation under the National Health Service Corps program accurately assesses adequacy of access and whether another measure would be more accurate, and (2) potential methodologies for designating general surgery shortage areas.

HHS must publish data comparing the availability and need of general surgery services in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

HHS may establish a methodology for designating general surgery shortage areas and make such designations. HHS must publish a list of general surgery shortage areas.

]]> Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 Display Title Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the designation of general surgery shortage areas, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1351is/xml/BILLS-115s1351is.xml 2017-06-14 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.