I have heard there are extra benefits to working in a rural shortage area of a HPSA or MUA. What are some of the advantages?
There are a number of advantages from helping get school loans paid off to increase Medicare payments in rural geographic HPSAs to having a clinic designated as a federally certified rural health clinic or federally certified community health center. If you want to know what these shortage designations offer to rural Texas, you can check on our resource page at the TDH Health Professions Resource Center link and look for the benefit and incentive programs related to HPSA, MUA & MUP. Or go to http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/hprc/ Question: I have heard that physicians in Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) locations can get an increase in their Medicare payment by using a modifier to show they practice in a rural area, what is this program and can my RHC bill for this also? What is the modifier called? Answer: The Medicare Bonus Payment program with a QU or QB modifier you are referring to is the fee-for-service Medicare services performed by a physician who provides healthcare in
