Sec. 201. Maternity care health professional shortage areas
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Section 332 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254e ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall designate maternity care health professional shortage areas in the States, publish a descriptive list of the area’s population groups, medical facilities, and other public facilities so designated, and at least annually review and, as necessary, revise such designations.
For purposes of paragraph (1), a complete descriptive list shall be published in the Federal Register not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the MOMS for the 21st Century Act and annually thereafter. The provisions of subsections (b), (c), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and
(j)(other than (j)(1)(B)) of this section shall apply to the designation of a maternity care health professional shortage area in a similar manner and extent as such provisions apply to the designation of health professional shortage areas, except in applying subsection (b)(3), the reference in such subsection to physicians shall be deemed to be a reference to nationally certified and State licensed obstetricians, family practice physicians who practice full-scope maternity care, certified nurse-midwives, certified midwives, certified professional midwives, and physician’s assistants who practice full scope maternity care. For purposes of this subsection, the term maternity care health professional shortage area means— an area in an urban or rural area (which need not conform to the geographic boundaries of a political subdivision and which is a rational area for the delivery of health services) which the Secretary determines has a shortage of providers of maternity care health services including those referenced in paragraph
(3)or an urban or rural area that the Secretary determines has lost a significant number of such providers during the 10-year period beginning with 2004 or has no obstetrical providers licensed to provide operative obstetrical services; an area in an urban or rural area (which need not conform to the geographic boundaries of a political subdivision and which is a rational area for the delivery of health services) which the Secretary determines has a shortage of hospital or labor and delivery units, hospital birth center units, or freestanding birth centers or an area that lost a significant number of these units during the 10-year period beginning with 2003; or a population group which the Secretary determines has such a shortage of providers or facilities. .
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