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Shortage Designation Update
State Office of Rural Health Orientation Meeting
Rockville, Maryland September 10, 2014
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Objectives• Become familiar
Shortage Designation Branch
• Gain an understanding of Shortage Designation Types
• Gain an understanding of Shortage Partners and Stakeholders
• Shortage Designation Management System 2.0
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Division of Policy and Shortage Designation • Improve access to health
care services for individuals and communities that are underserved by designating and addressing health professional shortages areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/Ps)
• State Primary Care Offices
• Public Health Service Act, Title III, Sections 330 and 333
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HPSA Designations:Health Discipline Shortages
• 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
• There are three categories of HPSAs based on health discipline:1. primary medical care2. dental3. mental health
• For each discipline category, there are three types of HPSAs1. geographic area2. population group3. facility
• The primary factor used to determine a HPSA designation is the number of health professionals relative to the population with consideration of high need.
• These HPSA Designations are required to be updated on a regular basis
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Automatic Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Statute
• Legislation in 2002 created a separate type of HPSA designation, not based on geographic or population data but based on status as a certain type of facility
• This legislation created “Automatic Facility (Auto) HPSAs”
• Auto HPSAs are automatically designated by statute
• Auto HPSAs are manually scored by the BCRS Shortage Designation Branch
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Entities Covered under Auto HPSA Statute
• Federal Indian Health Service Clinics
• Tribally-run Health Clinics
• Urban Indian Health Clinics
• Dual-funded Community Health Centers/Tribal Health Clinics
Certified Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) meeting NHSC-Site Requirement
Federally Qualified Health Centers/Community Health Centers
FQHC Look-A-Likes (LALs)
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What is as HPSA Score?
HPSA Scores are developed for use by the National Health Service Corps in determining priorities for assignment of clinicians.
Scores range from 1 to 25 for primary care and mental health, 1 to 26 for dental.
The higher the score, the greater the chance of obtaining a provider.
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Auto HPSA Scores• A score of “0” can mean
two different things:– Data was provided and
calculated score is “0”– Or, the site has not been
scored, that is no data has been presented and thus not scored
– “0” means “null” in the latter case
Auto HPSA Scores are not required to be updated and only updated on request
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MUAs/PsHealth Services Shortages
• MUAs may be a whole county or a group of contiguous counties, a group of county or civil divisions or a group of urban census tracts in which residents have a shortage of personal health services
• MUPs may include groups of persons who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers leading to a shortage of personal health services
• MUA/Ps use an Index of Medical Underservice (IMU) with a scale of 0 to 100
• The IMU involves four variables which are summed and weighted to obtain an area’s score:– ratio of primary medical care physicians per 1,000 population– infant mortality rate– percentage of the population with incomes below the poverty level– percentage of the population age 65 or over
• An IMU of 62.0 or less qualifies for designation as an MUA/P
• Governor’s Exceptional MUP/Designation
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MUAs/PsHealth Services Shortages
• MUAs may be a whole county , group of contiguous counties, civil divisions or urban census tracts in which residents have a shortage of personal health services
• MUPs may include groups of persons who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers leading to a shortage of personal health services
• MUA/Ps use an Index of Medical Underservice (IMU) with a scale of 0 to 100
• The IMU involves four variables which are summed and weighted to obtain an area’s score:– ratio of primary medical care physicians per 1,000 population– infant mortality rate– percentage of the population with incomes below the poverty level– percentage of the population age 65 or over
• An IMU of 62.0 or less qualifies for designation as an MUA/P
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Shortage Designations and Medicare Certification as a Rural Health Clinic
• Primary Care Medical Geographic HPSA
• Primary Care Medical Population-Group HPSA
• Medically Underserved Area
• Governor-designated and Secretary-certified shortage area
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State Primary Care Offices: PCOs
• HRSA-PCO Cooperative Agreement addresses the needs of underserved areas and populations
• Coordinate and oversee HPSA and MUA/P needs assessment and application process
• Retain its historic focus to support states and territories in:1. their statewide primary care needs assessments
2. shortage designation coordination
3. technical assistance and collaborations that seek expand access to primary care
• FOA will strongly encourage needs assessments be based on pre-defined Rational Service Area plans or Primary Care Service Areas (PCSAs) and serve as the basis for shortage designation applications
• Discussion of past and/or future plans to coordinate the collection of provider data with all licensing boards for health professionals in the state or other appropriate organizations
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HPSA Find Website
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HPSA Find Website
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Shortage Designation Option National Health Service Corps
Federally Qualified Health Center Program
CMS Medicare Incentive Payment
CMS Rural Health Clinic
ProgramJ-1 Visa Waiver
Primary Care HPSA X X X X
Dental Care HPSA X
Mental Health HPSA X X X
Geographic HPSA X X X X
Population HPSA X X X
Facility HPSA X X
Exceptional MUP X X
Medically Underserved Area X X XMedically Underserved
Population X XState Governor's Certified
Shortage Area X
How Shortage Designations are used
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History of Shortage Designation
1970 - 1975 1990 1998 2001 2008
-The National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
enacted - Health Professional
Shortage Area (HPSA) methodology developed
The National Health Service Corps
Revitalization Act to Prioritized on HPSAs
ASAPS Built on Manual Business Process & HPSA Methodology
Defined in 1970s
Shortage Designation 2.0
HRSA Proposed New Rules for Designation, No
Modifications to Methodology Implemented
HRSA Proposed New Rules for Designation, No
Modifications to Methodology Implemented
Paper Processing
2014
ASAPS & Paper Processing
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New Shortage Designation Transformation
• Shortage Designation 2.0 bridges people, process, and data.
Shortage Designatio
n 2.0
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Shortage Designation 2.0: Phased Implementation • Shortage Designation 2.0 will have releases in 2014 and 2015; leading
to a decision for recalculation of scores.
September 2014 Release• ASAPS archival / decommission in August, data migrated as-is and no changes to scores • Designations will not be submitted from September to December• Current process for auto-HPSA manual request and processing will continue to May 2015 • PCOs provide additional data attributes for provider data to National Provider Identifier (NPI) file starting in
September
December 2014 Release
• HPSA & MUA/P designations can be submitted and processed; interface to data warehouse restarts• PCOs / stakeholders can use automated data submission for non-standard data • Ability for PCOs and SDB analysts to communicate via system (inquiries) • Current process for auto-HPSA manual request and processing will continue to May 2015 • Initial impact analysis of scoring recalculation begins
• PCSA integrated in the system as a support tool • Facility, including Auto HPSA, designations can be requested and processed • Continued impact analysis of score recalculations• PCOs continue to complete provider data to NPI file
May 2015 Release
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Division of Policy and Shortage Designation
Dr. Kae Brickerd, Branch Chief
CAPT Phil Budashewitz, Director [email protected]
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Q&A