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Medicare Incentive Payments in Health Professional Shortage Areas

Sponsor
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Deadlines
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Purpose

Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) can receive incentive payments from Medicare. Psychiatrists practicing in mental health HPSAs are also eligible. Payments are made on a quarterly basis, rather than claim-by-claim, and are handled by each area's Medicare carrier.

CMS automatically makes bonus payments to most eligible physicians. However, physicians who provide services in eligible areas for which the zip code is not considered dominant for the area will need to add a modifier to their claims to receive the bonus payment.

Eligibility

Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)

Psychiatrists practicing in mental health HPSAs are also eligible.

Medicare Physician Bonus Payment Eligibility Analyzer

Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Physicians receive incentive payments from Medicare.

Application process

For information about the current Medicare incentive payments, contact the appropriate CMS regional offices.

Tagged as
Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Medicare · Physicians · Reimbursement and payment models

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