This layer displays the estimated number of all primary care physicians within 10, 25, or 50 miles of each census tract. Primary care physicians are those MDs or DOs specializing in family practice, general practice, pediatric medicine, or internal medicine. Physician directory and location data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician and Other Supplier 2012 Public Use File (PUF), which was released in April 2014, and from the 2013 CMS Physician Compare National Downloadable File. Additional data analysis was performed by CARES.
Preventable Hospitalizations, Rate per 1,000 Medicare Beneficiaries, 2014
Layer displays the rate at which Medicare beneficiaries were hospitalized for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) in 2014. ACSC conditions are are potentially preventable given appropriate primary and preventive care. Data are acquired from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare and mapped by Hospital Service Area, County, and State.
Primary Care Utilization Among the Medicare Population, 2014
Layer displays the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with at least one visit to their primary care physician in 2014. Data are acquired from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare and mapped by Hospital Service Area, County, and State.
Primary Care Utilization Among the Medicare Population, 2015
Layer displays the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with at least one visit to their primary care physician in 2015. Data are acquired from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare and mapped by Hospital Service Area, County, and State.
Health Care Service Delivery Sites
Layers include the locations of community-based health centers as of October 2013.
Locations of Primary Care Physicians
This layer displays the locations of all primary care physicians who accept Medicare. Primary care physicians are those MDs or DOs specializing in family practice, general practice, pediatric medicine, or internal medicine. Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician and Other Supplier 2012 Public Use File (PUF), which was released in April 2014, and from the 2013 CMS Physician Compare National Downloadable File.
Access to Primary Care Providers
Layers display county-level information about the number and rate of physicians based on data from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 2015-16 Area Health Resource File (AHRF).
Locations of Primary Care Physicians
This layer displays the locations of all primary care physicians who accept Medicare. Primary care physicians are those MDs or DOs specializing in family practice, general practice, pediatric medicine, or internal medicine. Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician and Other Supplier 2015 Public Use File (PUF), released in June 2017.
Locations of Primary Care Physicians
This layer displays the locations of all primary care physicians with a CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI). Primary care physicians are those MDs or DOs specializing in family practice, general practice, pediatric medicine, or internal medicine. Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) March 2018 National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file.
Primary Care Physician Access
This layer displays the rate of physicians per 10,000 population and the total number of physicians at the census tract and county level. Other related layers include various specialties and the number of primary care providers within 5 miles of a census tract.