title: Geographic Concentration Of Home-Based Medical Care Providers.
abstract: The United States faces a shortage of providers who care for homebound patients. About 5,000 primary care providers made 1.7 million home visits to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2013, accounting for 70 percent of all home-based medical visits. Nine percent of these providers performed 44 percent of visits. However, most homebound people live more than thirty miles from a high-volume provider.
authors: Nengliang (Aaron) Yao (ayao@virginia.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, in Charlottesville.
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authors: Christine Ritchie is the Harris Fishbon Distinguished Professor in Clinical Translational Research and Aging in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco.
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authors: Fabian Camacho is a senior biostatistician in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia.
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authors: Bruce Leff is director of the Center on Aging and Health-East and a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000191:economics*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018577:Homebound Persons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006792:House Calls / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States
keywords: Aging; Home Care; Home-Based Medical Care; Homebound; Workforce Issues