Title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a task force to conduct a study on physician shortages, including barriers to physicians trained abroad practicing in the United States, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill establishes a task force in the Department of Health and Human Services to study (1) impacts of, including financial costs related to, physician shortages; and (2) barriers faced by foreign-trained physicians practicing in the United States. The task force must submit a report detailing its findings and recommendations to Congress.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6432 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6432

  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 
    task force to conduct a study on physician shortages, including 
barriers to physicians trained abroad practicing in the United States, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2020

   Mr. Cardenas (for himself, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. 
Khanna, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Stevens, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. 
 Mucarsel-Powell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 
    task force to conduct a study on physician shortages, including 
barriers to physicians trained abroad practicing in the United States, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TASK FORCE TO STUDY PHYSICIAN SHORTAGES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
establish a task force to conduct a study--
            (1) evaluating and quantifying--
                    (A) the impact of physician shortages in the United 
                States; and
                    (B) the costs incurred by Federal Government and 
                State and local governments due to such shortages;
            (2) quantifying the number of individuals who--
                    (A) completed training outside the United States to 
                practice as a physician;
                    (B) reside in the United States; and
                    (C) do not practice as a physician; and
            (3) determining the reasons why individuals described in 
        paragraph (2) are not practicing as a physician, including 
        identification of regulatory and other barriers to such 
        practice.
    (b) Report.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
require the task force established under subsection (a) to submit to 
the Congress not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
Act a report--
            (1) summarizing the results of the study under subsection 
        (a); and
            (2) making recommendations to ease barriers to individuals 
        described in subsection (a)(2) practicing as physicians in the 
        United States.
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