In early November, elected officials in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate introduced the Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2021 (H.R. 5818 and S. 3132). Representative John Larson (D-CT) and former Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) introduced the legislation in the House and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Bill Cassidy, MD, (R-LA) introduced it in the Senate.