Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area Designations Before and After the Affordable Care Act's Shortage Designation Modernization Project

Christopher A Scannell; Jacob K Quinton; Nicholas J Jackson; Yusuke Tsugawa

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18836

Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area Designations Before and After the Affordable Care Act's Shortage Designation Modernization Project

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2118836. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18836.

Authors

Christopher A Scannell^{1

2

3}, Jacob K Quinton^{2

3}, Nicholas J Jackson³, Yusuke Tsugawa^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.
² National Clinician Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
³ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Shortage Designation Modernization Project is associated with changes in primary care health professional shortage area (PC-HPSA) designations.

Publication types

Observational Study

MeSH terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Plan Implementation / statistics & numerical data*
Health Workforce / legislation & jurisprudence
Health Workforce / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Medically Underserved Area*
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act*
Primary Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence
Primary Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Grants and funding

TL1 TR001883/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States