Journal article
Are Direct Primary Care Practices Located in Health Professional Shortage Areas?
Annals of family medicine, v 22(6), pp 522-524
Nov 2024
PMID: 39586711
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Abstract
Direct primary care (DPC) is a model of health care delivery that relies on membership fees for service; however, it has been criticized as potentially worsening the shortage of primary care physicians. We sought to compare the distribution of DPC practices in the United States to that of non-DPC primary care and assess the overlap with Health Resources and Services Administration designated health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). We mined data from publicly available sources on DPC practices, HPSAs, and other primary care physicians. We stratified analyses by degree of rurality and HPSA priority need scores. We found that DPC practices were less likely to be in HPSAs overall and less likely to be in a high-priority-need HPSA but more likely to be in a rural or partially rural HPSA compared to primary care physicians. There is ample opportunity to grow DPC presence in many HPSAs that remain underserved, especially high-priority HPSAs in urban areas.
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- Title
- Are Direct Primary Care Practices Located in Health Professional Shortage Areas?
- Creators
- Neal D Goldstein - Drexel UniversityPaul Yerkes - Core Family Practice, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Annals of family medicine, v 22(6), pp 522-524
- Publisher
- ANNALS FAMILY MEDICINE; LEAWOOD
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001370039100009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85210776993
- Other Identifier
- 991021965966904721
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