Federal Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations — geographic areas, populations, and facilities with a critical shortage of primary-care, dental, or mental-health providers.
CMS Market Saturation & Utilization
Provider market saturation and Medicare fee-for-service utilization per county, state, and nation by provider/supplier service type — a CMS program-integrity dataset. Geography-keyed; no provider NPI. Source:
FHIR Observation · Sample record
What a record looks like in the API response.
{
"resourceType": "Observation",
"id": "msat-example",
"_source": "cms-market-saturation",
"_methodology": "cms-market-saturation/v1",
"code": { "text": "Providers per geography" },
"valueQuantity": { "value": 42, "unit": "providers" }
}Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \ "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Observation?_source=market-saturation" \ | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'
Dataset facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Agency | |
| Category | Workforce and access |
| Records | |
| Temporal coverage | 2020–2025 |
| Refresh cadence | Semiannual |
| Freshness SLA | Within 7 days of CMS release |
| Last synced | 2026-06-14Updated 2026-06-14 |
| FHIR resource | Observation |
| Methodology | cms-market-saturation/v1 |
| Measured | Number of providers, FFS beneficiaries, users, and total payment per geography × service type |
| Upstream source | data.cms.gov → |
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