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Legislative BriefingFebruary 11, 2014
Colorado’s Primary Care
Workforce A Study of
Regional Disparities
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The Colorado Health Institute: An Introduction
• We are non-partisan.
• We do not take positions on bills.
• Our insight is used to:
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• The study finds disparities in the availability of primary care across Colorado.
• Five “hot spot” regions face significant challenges in primary care and Medicaid workforce capacity.
• Potential solutions revolve around training, retention, new models of care and technology.
Three Takeaways
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Some Background
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• We responded to requests for baseline information on Colorado’s primary care capacity.
• Two primary care workforce projections in the past five years indicated the potential need for increased capacity.
• No study had assessed current primary care capacity, especially across regions.
Why We Conducted This Study
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• Is Colorado’s primary care capacity adequate to provide care to all Coloradans, regardless of insurance?
• Does primary care capacity differ on a regional basis?
• Do Coloradans covered by Medicaid have access to primary care physicians?
The Questions We Asked
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• Calculates full-time equivalents for the primary care workforce, statewide and regionally. • Introduces benchmark panel size to
compare capacity across regions – and time.• Analyzes Medicaid capacity, today and
after expansion.
The Colorado Health Institute Analysis
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Put Formula on This Slide
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Findings: Primary Care
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• Colorado’s average panel size of 1,873:1 compares well to the 1,900:1 benchmark
• Nine regions – six rural and three urban – don’t meet the benchmark.
• What Colorado needs: Another 258 primary care physicians in the right places.
It Matters Where You Live
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Greatest Primary Care Capacity
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Regions with Relatively High Primary Care Capacity
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Least Primary Care Capacity
Regions with Relatively Low Primary Care Capacity and the Number of FTEs Needed to Reach the 1,900 Benchmark
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Regional View
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Findings: Medicaid Primary Care
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• Nine regions have relatively low Medicaid capacity.
• Four urban, five rural.
• We estimate an additional 440,000 Medicaid enrollees by 2016.
• Capacity will need to increase. Again, in the right places.
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Disparities in Medicaid Capacity
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Greatest Medicaid Capacity
Regions with Relatively High Medicaid Primary Care Capacity
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Least Medicaid Capacity
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Regions with Relatively Low Medicaid Primary Care Capacity
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A Regional View
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Post-Medicaid Expansion
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Findings: Nurse Practitioners and
Physician Assistants 21
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Important Parts of the Equation
•On average, one NP or PA FTE for each two primary care physician FTEs.
• Important for integrated and delegated models of care.
• Colorado’s FQHCs report a ratio of about 1:1
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Regional View
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The ‘So What?’24
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Why Regional Disparities?
• Rural and frontier landscape of Colorado.
• Attracting professionals to remote places, requires a certain profile.
• Economics of rural practice.
• Jobs for spouses.
• Market rewards specialists more than primary care physicians.
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Possible Solutions
• Training: “Grow your own”
• Retention resources in rural areas
• Hub and spoke
• Tele-medicine
• Incentives for primary care
• Delegate care
• Push technology envelope
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Methodology 27
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Defining Primary Care
• Family/general medicine• Internal medicine• Pediatrics• Does not include OB/GYN.
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• Practicing physicians: Peregrine Medical Quest
• Time in patient care: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)
• Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: Colorado Health Institute
• Population: U.S. Census
• Medicaid caseload: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)
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The Data
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• Several large health systems gave us their patient panel targets
• Experts writing in Health Affairs based analyses on panel sizes of around 1,900.
• FQHCs and other safety net clinics tend to range between 1,250:1 and 1,500:1.
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Panel Size Benchmarks
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• The study finds disparities in the availability of primary care across Colorado.
• Five “hot spot” regions face significant challenges in primary care and Medicaid workforce capacity.
• Potential solutions revolve around training, retention, new models of care and technology.
Three Takeaways
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Questions?
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Rebecca Alderfer 720.382.7074 [email protected] Downs 720.382.7091 [email protected]
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