3.0.0 2859 2022-11-01T05:17:26Z 2022-11-01T05:17:26Z Senate S 2019-11-14 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-11-14T17:05:40Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 116 1841 HR 2019-03-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2019-11-14 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2019-11-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI N B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2019-11-14 True Health Congressional oversight Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Health care coverage and access Health information and medical records Health personnel Hospital care Surgery and anesthesia Health 00 2019-11-14 Introduced in Senate 2021-01-06T16:51:56Z Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019

This bill requires the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 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, (2) whether another measure would be more accurate, and (3) potential methodologies for designating general surgery shortage areas.

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

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

]]> Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 Display Title Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS 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 Introduced in Senate 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2859is/xml/BILLS-116s2859is.xml 2019-11-14 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.