What is considered a health professional shortage area?
Federal regulations stipulate that, to be considered as having a shortage of providers, an area must have a population-to-provider ratio above a certain threshold. For primary medical care, the population-to-provider ratio must be at least 3,500 to 1 (3,000 to 1 if there are unusually high needs in the community).
How are Hpsas calculated?
We calculate HPSA scores based on discipline-specific methodology. Three scoring criteria are common across all HPSA disciplines: Population to provider ratio. Percentage of the population below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
What type of bonus do physician that treat patients in underserved areas receive?
Increasing payments to physicians in underserved areas, it was believed, would have improved access to care in those areas. The current law makes physicians in all HPSAS eligible for bonuses of 10 percent of the amount paid for services.
How many Americans live in HPSA?
There are currently 96 million Americans living in mental health shortage areas.
What is HPSA designation?
Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations are used to identify areas and population groups within the United States that are experiencing a shortage of health professionals.
What is a shortage area?
Shortage designation identifies an area, population, or facility experiencing a shortage of health care services. There are several types of shortage designations: Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs)
What does MUA score mean?
Medically Underserved Area and Population
Medically Underserved Area and. Population (MUA/P) Health Professionals Shortage Area (HPSA): this designation identifies a. shortage of either Primary Health Care, Dental Care or Mental Health. Care Providers in a specific geographic area, a population group, or a.
What is the difference between HPSA and MUA?
MUA is the acronym for a Medically Underserved Area. MUP stands for Medically Underserved Population. These names are types of physician shortage designations that are sister programs to the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), and they provide similar benefits to communities throughout the nation.
How many HPSAs are there?
Almost 65 million Americans reside in federally designated health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) for primary care.
What does it mean to you to work with the underserved?
In caring for the underserved, nurses work in communities where many residents are below the poverty level, have a significant amount of chronic health problems and medical disabilities, reside in geographic isolated areas, and don’t have a sufficient number of health care providers to meet the demands for service.