---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 299b–4a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "299b–4a"
heading: "Studies on preventive interventions in primary care for older Americans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/299b-4a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"
  - "Part B — Health Care Improvement Research"
---

# §299b–4a. Studies on preventive interventions in primary care for older Americans

- (a) **Studies—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), acting through the United States Preventive [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3), shall conduct a series of studies designed to identify preventive interventions that can be delivered in the primary care setting and that are most valuable to older Americans.
- (b) **Mission statement—** The mission statement of the United States Preventive [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) is amended to include the evaluation of [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) that are of particular relevance to older Americans.
- (c) **Report—** Not later than 1 year after December 21, 2000, and annually thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) shall submit to Congress a report on the conclusions of the studies conducted under [subsection (a)](#a), together with recommendations for such legislation and administrative actions as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) considers appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(6) [title I, § 126], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–479.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.