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

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 year

  2021

• Venue

  JAMA Network Open

• Publication date

  2021-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18836PMID 34328504PMCID 8325068
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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