Wisconsin Primary Care Programs
Annual HPSA Reviews: Important News for 2012
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The following HPSAs are due for their required every
4-year review in 2012.
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The Primary Care Office will contact clinics in
these areas to collect updated physician or psychiatrist data and
needs a timely response from each clinic.
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HPSAs cannot be reviewed, if clinics do not provide
updated physician data to the Primary Care Office. HPSAs which are
not reviewed by federal due dates become "proposed for
withdrawal", then are officially withdrawn and lose all HPSA-linked
benefits.
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Clinics which do not assist with provider data
collection for HPSAs, will not be considered "good faith"
partners and will lose provider recruitment assistance from the PCO
for all their clinic locations.
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The Primary Care Office does everything we can to
re-designate HPSAs, but we can never guarantee that an area will
continue to meet HPSA requirements.
Primary Care HPSAs due for review in 2012 winter/spring (by region):
- Western: Sawyer County
- Northern: Taylor County
- Northeastern: Kewaunee Co, Marinette Co, Oconto/Oconto Falls,
Sheboygan downtown
- Southeastern: Milwaukee Inner City South, Waukesha downtown
- Southcentral: none
Mental Health HPSAs due for review in 2012 winter/spring (by region):
- Western: Burnett, Douglas, Washburn, Rusk, Barron, Dunn, Monroe,
Pepin
- Northern: Florence, Oneida, Taylor
- Northeastern: Marinette, Marquette, Door, Oconto, Waushara
- Southeastern: Racine City, Milwaukee Inner City South, Milwaukee
Near North
- Southcentral: Jefferson, Beloit central City
What Clinics can do to help with HPSA Reviews:
- Respond promptly to the phone call and e-mail from the Primary
Care Office's contracted HPSA staff from the Wisconsin Primary
Health Care Association.
- Your clinic's contact person will be e-mailed a password-protected
Excel file with the HPSA Provider Survey and a unique
password.
- Review the Excel file that they are sent for their clinic
location. We have pre-loaded as much clinic and physician (or
psychiatrist) data as we can to make this less labor-intensive for
clinics.
- Correct any errors, and update/add the required data for each
primary care physician (or psychiatrist) at this clinic
location.
- Save and return a copy of the completed Excel file with your HPSA
clinic provider data to the HPSA contracted staff at the Wisconsin
Primary Health Care Association.
- You can print a list of the types of data that are needed for your
clinic's primary care physicians: Primary Care Physician
Survey (PDF, 43 KB)
Data Privacy:
- Physician personally identifiable information will only be used
for HPSA designation purposes by the State Primary Care Office and
contracted HPSA staff, in compliance with State and federal data
privacy agreements.
- Aggregate physician specialty and FTE information will be made
available to state and local partners to assist with health
workforce planning and development (data will be aggregated at the
county level when small numbers might make it easier to identify
individual physicians).
For more information on HPSAs and HPSA-linked benefits, go to:
Why are Shortage Designations Important?
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