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HR 5592 113th Congress House

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.

Introduced: September 18, 2014 See on congress.gov
Health Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAlaskaDepartment of Health and Human ServicesHawaii
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Sep 19, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 18, 2014
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sep 18, 2014
Introduced in House
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 Latest action September 19, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in developing methodology for designating areas with limited access to goods and services generally only found in urban areas (e.g., advanced medical care) as frontier and remote (FAR) areas, to: (1) designate as a FAR area any area in Hawaii or Alaska that the state designates as rural for a federal program, and (2) include, in addition to otherwise defined levels of remoteness for FAR areas, a level for areas with unique characteristics that should qualify those areas to be designated as FAR areas.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5592: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5592/
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"H.R. 5592: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5592/.
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H.R. 5592, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5592/.
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