How it works
The Primary Care Atlas maps Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), Medicare Physician Scarcity Areas (PSAs), the impact of your residency program graduates on your region, the distribution of physicians by specialty (primary care and other), and populations.
Who uses the Primary Care Atlas and what are they doing?
- Physicians and administrators in primary care clinics
- State academies of family physicians
- Family medicine residency program directors
- State Primary Care Associations
Physicians and administrators in primary care clinics use the Primary Care Atlas to answer questions such as the following:
- Is my clinic located in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) or Physician Scarcity Area that may be eligible for Medicare bonus payments?
- How many counties in my state have no radiologists (or other specialty of interest)?
- What is the ratio of population per [radiologist, other speciality] by [state, county, tract]?
Use Physician Specialty Distribution mapmaker. - What counties in my state would become Health Professional Shortage Areas if the existing supply of family physicians were withdrawn?
Use Physician Specialty Disturbution mapmaker (plus available HPSA layers)
Family medicine residency program directors use the Residency Footprint mapmaker within the Primary Care Atlas to answer questions such as the following:- What is the distribution of my program's graduates by individual practitioner?
- What is the distribution of my program's graduates by state or county?
- How do my program's graduates overlay with existing HPSAs or low-income areas?
- What counties would be HPSAs without my program's graduates?
- In whose political boundaries do these counties lie?
Use Residency Footprint mapmaker (plus available political boundaries data layers)
State Primary Care Associations use the Primary Care Atlas to answer questions such as the following:- What counties (or other geography) in my area have the highest percentage of Hispanic population?
- Which of these counties are Health Professional Shortage Areas? Which have a community health center?
