2018 Physician Verification Protocol
The purpose of provider verification is to validate the practice characteristics of primary care physicians and psychiatrists actively practicing in Indiana.
The purpose of provider verification is to validate the practice characteristics of primary care physicians and psychiatrists actively practicing in Indiana.
This is the 2017 Metadata report for Theme 3 Federal Workforce Shortage Designations for the Bowen Health Workforce Information Portal. These data are collected biennial through a license renewal process. Data in this theme include Primary Care Physicians and General Dentists. Primary care physician specialties include General/Family Medicine, Pediatricians (General), Internal Medicine (General), or Obstetrics/Gynecology. General dentist specialties include general or pediatric dentistry.
This survey was administered between July 20th, 2017 – October 31st, 2017 to Physicians. This instrument is used for data collection in biennium re-licensure of Physicians in the State of Indiana.
The following figures depict the number of providers that are enrolled in Indiana Medicaid and those providers that are active, using claims as a proxy to measure services provided to Medicaid enrollees. Following the figures are a series of recommendations for 1) activation of enrolled providers that are not actively participating and 2) increasing provider enrollment. The remainder of the document outlines how these data were obtained and forms the foundation for these recommendations.