Find HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas (Primary Care / Dental / Mental Hea
Find HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas (Primary Care / Dental / Mental Health) by state, discipline, minimum shortage score, or FTE shortage — a mapped staffing-demand signal. Answers: where is the designated shortage most severe, and how many practitioner FTEs are needed? Powers medical & travel-nurse staffing. Defaults to currently-designated areas. Filter: state, discipline, min_score, min_fte, rural_status, designated_since, status; sort by hpsa_score or hpsa_fte.
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Endpoint
GET https://api.healthparse.io/v1/hpsa/search
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.healthparse.io |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 4 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.03 | 638 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"discipline": "example",
"min_score": "example",
"state": "example"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"properties": {
"designated_since": {
"description": "designated on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)",
"type": "string"
},
"discipline": {
"description": "'Primary Care' | 'Dental Health' | 'Mental Health' (substring)",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"default": 25,
"maximum": 100,
"type": "integer"
},
"min_fte": {
"description": "minimum practitioner FTE shortage",
"type": "number"
},
"min_score": {
"description": "minimum HPSA score (0-26; higher = greater shortage)",
"type": "number"
},
"offset": {
"default": 0,
"type": "integer"
},
"rural_status": {
"description": "e.g. 'Rural' | 'Non-Rural'",
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "hpsa_score|hpsa_fte|designation_date|designation_population, optionally :asc/:desc",
"type": "string"
},
"state": {
"description": "2-letter state code(s), comma-separated",
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"description": "override the default 'Designated' filter",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"type": "object"
}