Geographic Concentration Of Home Based Medical Care Providers.
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.
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