Medically Underserved Population Law and Legal Definition
According to 42 USCS § 300e-1 [Title 42. The Public Health and Welfare; Chapter 6a. The Public Health Service; Health Maintenance Organizations], medically underserved population means the population of an urban or rural area designated by the Secretary as an area with a shortage of personal health services or a population group designated by the Secretary as having a shortage of such services. Such a designation may be made by the Secretary only after consideration of the comments (if any) of (A) each State health planning and development agency which covers (in whole or in part) such urban or rural area or the area in which such population group resides, and (B) each health systems agency designated for a health service area which covers (in whole or in part) such urban or rural area or the area in which such population group resides.
Legal Definition list
- Medically Underserved Community
- Medically Needy Person
- Medically Needy Family Person
- Medically Necessary (Health Care)
- Medically Accepted Indication
- Medically Underserved Population
- Medicare Advantage Plan
- Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) Plan
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Medicare Beneficiary
- Medicare Coordinated Care Plan (MCCP)
Related Legal Terms
- Adult Education Population [Education]
- Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration [Department of State]
- Civilian Institutionalized Population
- Conservation of Healthy Populations of Fish and Wildlife
- Essential Experimental Population
- Essential Experimental Population of Fauna
- Experimental Population
- Experimental Population [Wildlife Law]
- Experimental Population of Fauna
- Historically Underserved Producer [Agriculture]
