In other words, only these organizations, would have the capability to bill medicare for a telehealth consultation when located in a location CMS designates as a healthcare
physician shortage area (HPSA).
The heightened odds of being in a
physician shortage area for Hispanic zip codes actually declined with greater segregation, as measured by the isolation index.
In Baltimore, the shortage of primary care has been long standing, and Baltimore is a federally designated primary care
physician shortage area. This physician shortage is not going to improve in the next 10 years or the foreseeable future.
A.7079 KOON Provides for an income tax credit for physicians who agree to practice their specialty in areas designated by the regents as a designated
physician shortage area.
Instead, we examined whether or not patients lived in a
physician shortage area. Shortage areas were constructed from the 1991 Federal Register list; this involved an extensive cross-walking from counties, census tracts, and other small geographic units to the beneficiary's ZIP Code of residence (see Mitchell, 1994 for more detail).
-- Suppose the federal government has designated your part of the state as a
physician shortage area, but charges haven't gone up and you still have lots of openings for new patients in your practice.
The second-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, is enrolled in the school's
Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP), a special program that for 30 years has been training future physicians to practice rural health care.
The panel members were concerned that
physician shortage areas would shift over time.
The agency set a minimum threshold for including "essential community providers," those who traditionally treat low-income patients or work in
physician shortage areas, such as federally qualified health centers.
-- International medical graduates have become an integral part of providing medical care in federally designated
physician shortage areas, according to results from a recent study.
ARLINGTON VA.--International medical graduates have become an integral part of providing medical care in federally designated
physician shortage areas, according to results from a recent study.
Some states have opted to also cover the services of certified registered nurse anesthetists and clinical nurse specialists-mainly because these practitioners are willing to provide needed services in
physician shortage areas. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA, P.L.