Health Resources and Services Administration January 2, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This is the second of two planned notices informing the public of the availability of the complete lists of all geographic areas, population groups, and facilities designated as primary medical care, dental health, and mental health professional shortage areas (HPSA). This notice includes the lists of HPSAs in a designated status as of December 2, 2023. The lists are available on the shortage area topic page on HRSA's data.hrsa.gov website. The first Federal Register notice was published on July 3, 2023, and included HPSAs in a designated status and those proposed for withdrawal, while extending the transition time communicated in the prior notice published on July 7, 2022. State primary care offices had additional time to submit HPSA data that was re-evaluated in preparation for the publication of this notice. This second Federal Register notice includes the lists of HPSAs in a designated status and withdraws designations proposed for withdrawal not meeting the requirements for designation as of the data pull on December 2, 2023.