Download or read book Health Professional Shortage Areas Problems Remain with Primary Care Shortage Area Designation System written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Shortage Areas written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how the Department of Health & Human Services' systems for identifying health care shortage areas are currently used to target resources to the underserved, & Department proposals to combine these systems. Includes recommendations to Congress that could result in a better match of federal program resources to needy communities, & eliminate funding where there is not a demonstrated need for federal assistance. Charts, tables & graphs.
Download or read book Health Professional Shortage Areas written by and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to allocate resources or provide benefits. We estimated that slightly more than half of the HPSAs were designated for geographic areas or population groups, and these geographic and population-group HPSAs were located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Facility HPSAs, which accounted for slightly less than half of the total number of HPSAs, were also located in every state and the District of Columbia. In fiscal year 2005, more than 30 federal programs-including programs administered by HRSA, CMS, and federal agencies outside of HHS-relied on HPSA designations and, in some cases, HPSA scores, to allocate resources or provide benefits. These included NHSC programs that award scholarships or educational loan repayment to students and health professionals in exchange for a commitment to practice in HPSAs for at least 2 years. Other programs relying on HPSA designations to allocate resources or provide benefits included programs that pay physicians bonus payments for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in geographic HPSAs and programs that waive certain requirements for foreign physicians if they agree to practice in HPSAs or other underserved areas of the United States. The use of the HPSA designation by numerous federal programs to allocate resources or provide benefits is an incentive for obtaining and retaining a HPSA designation.
Download or read book Health Care Shortage Areas written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Professional Shortage Areas written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To identify areas facing shortages of health care providers, HHS relies on its health professional shortage area (HPSA) designation system. HHS designates geographic, population-group, and facility HPSAs. HHS also gives each HPSA a score to rank its need for providers relative to other HPSAs. The Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2002 required GAO to report on the HPSA designation system. GAO reviewed (1) the number and location of HPSAs and federal programs that use HPSA designations to allocate resources or provide benefits, (2) available research on HPSA designation criteria and methodology, and (3) the impact of a 2002 provision that automatically designates federally qualified health centers and certain rural health clinics as facility HPSAs. GAO obtained and analyzed HHS's data on primary care HPSA designations as of September 2005 and January 2006 and identified reports on HPSA criteria and methodology through a literature search of peer-reviewed journals and other reports published since 1995.
Download or read book Physician Shortage Areas written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Care Physician Shortage Areas written by California. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1973* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Care Provider Shortage written by Pohl Ron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: B+, Loyola University Chicago, language: English, abstract: We are proposing the following solutions to the challenge of primary healthcare provider shortages in rural Washington: that undergraduate medical education (UME) pathway in the two medical schools in the state be altered; visa-waivers, loan-forgiveness and direct incentive programs expanded; and residency funding be increased. These are workable with the right support and resources. We understand that primary healthcare physician shortages will worsen more and more over the next decade if nothing is done now; and there is no doubt that communities have been feeling the impacts of shortages. Since none of the plans proposed here can work to reduce the expected decrease, the right combination of strategies will results in an increase in the number of primary healthcare physicians per population in rural Washington, which is the main aim of this proposal.
Download or read book Progress and problems in improving the availability of primary care providers in underserved areas written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Professional Shortage Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Examination of Primary Care Physician Shortages in Oregon Arizona and South Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the current United States healthcare crisis, the shortage of primary care physicians is becoming increasingly evident. Its prevalence, although seen nationwide, directly affects specific states, creating what are known as Health Professional Shortage Areas, or HPSAs. HPSAs have a substantial lack in primary care providers in comparison to the number of individuals in a specified geographic location. Oregon in particular, is home to 120 HPSAs, with current shortages of approximately 600 physicians: a deficit expected to reach 1,500 by the year 2030 (OHWI, 2011). While there are multiple elements that contribute to the development of HPSAs, the focus here was to examine potential reasons post-residency doctors with a primary care (PC) specialty leave the states in which they trained. Examining this in Oregon, and comparing the dynamics of Oregon to those of Arizona and South Carolina--states with similar geographic and demographic characteristics--can help us understand and address the growing shortage of primary care physicians. The work presented here examines potential contributing causes of Oregon PC HPSAs, with a focus on two specific factors: reported decreases in the number of medical students practicing primary care, and misdirection of programs intended to promote primary care physicians to practice within the state. HPSA dynamics in South Carolina and Arizona are discussed for comparative context to inform and guide interpretation of Oregon dynamics, and to help elucidate potentially unique or overlapping factors between demographically and geographically (urban/rural) similar states. This paper closes with some preliminary recommendations to guide efforts to ensuring that all Oregonians have reliable, inclusive, and equitable access to the care they need.
Download or read book Physician Distribution and Health Care Challenges in Rural and Inner city Areas written by Council on Graduate Medical Education (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategies for Increasing Physician Supply in Medically Underserved Communities in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Influencing Health Care Access in Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas written by Mary S. Savitsky and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to healthcare is a continuing problem, particularly in rural America. The rising costs of care, the resistance of physician providers to enter primary care medicine or enter practice in isolated settings, the emphasis on curative rather than preventive medicine, restrictions by third party payers, and state practice laws are all factors influencing the access problem in rural America. The providers of care in this country are not all physicians; many are classified as physician extenders. Both physicians and physician extenders tend to choose employment in settings similar to the sites where they receive their clinical training. This may indicate that states without education programs may be at an immediate disadvantage in the struggle to meet primary care health needs. Physician Assistants (PA) are limited in the scope of their practice by state laws which restrict their functionality in healthcare delivery. These laws also impose access barriers by limiting PA availability in sites and facilities which also lack physicians. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between states' enabling legislation for one category of physician extender, the Physician Assistant (PA), and four independent variables; prescribing authority, dispensing authority, satellite practice authority, and the presence of a PA educational program (school) in the state. The dependent variable, proactivity, will be the degree of state health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). may assist states with severe rural health manpower shortages in developing a viable plan for meeting the primary care health needs of their communities. Rural health, Physician assistant, Physician extender, Health care access, HPSA(Health Professional Shortage Area).
Download or read book State Physician Shortage maldistribution Programs written by New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Manpower 1974 Appendix I Geographic analysis of physician shortage areas and the problem of specialty maldistribution written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physician Shortage Crisis in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
