Where has the federal government designated a health-professional shortage? Search HRSA HP
Where has the federal government designated a health-professional shortage? Search HRSA HPSAs by state, county, discipline (Primary Care | Dental Health | Mental Health), designation type, status, minimum HPSA score (0-26, higher = worse), population type, rural-only, or designated-since date. Returns the designation, score, geography, provider-to-population ratio, and shortage FTE — the buying moment for clinician-staffing, telehealth, and workforce vendors.
1250000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-09-07
updated
Provider
api.govparse.io · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x3873d15CF3209c32aaA8d9AA542164E658567129",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "1250000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
"payTo": "BdcZbENFdEyEUMqv9pnRMUnn1Yyeyo2dCMbYXbJ3LmaB",
"asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
"amount": "1250000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"county": "Harris",
"discipline": "Primary Care",
"state": "TX"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"rows": [
{
"county": "Jim Hogg County, TX",
"designation_date": "1979-06-07",
"designation_type": "High Needs Geographic HPSA",
"discipline": "Primary Care",
"hpsa_id": "1484203330",
"hpsa_name": "Jim Hogg County",
"hpsa_score": 23,
"hpsa_status": "Designated",
"rural_status": "Rural",
"shortage_fte": 0.4,
"state": "TX"
}
],
"total_matched": 1
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"routeTemplate": "/v1/hrsa/hpsa/search",
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"properties": {
"county": {
"description": "County name fragment.",
"examples": [
"Harris"
],
"type": "string"
},
"designation_type": {
"description": "Designation type fragment.",
"examples": [
"Geographic HPSA"
],
"type": "string"
},
"discipline": {
"description": "Primary Care | Dental Health | Mental Health (CSV).",
"examples": [
"Primary Care"
],
"type": "string"
},
"hpsa_id": {
"description": "Exact HPSA ID.",
"examples": [
"1484203330"
],
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Max rows (default 25, cap 100).",
"examples": [
25
],
"type": "integer"
},
"min_score": {
"description": "Minimum HPSA score (0-26, higher = worse).",
"examples": [
"18"
],
"type": "string"
},
"offset": {
"description": "Rows to skip.",
"examples": [
0
],
"type": "integer"
},
"population_type": {
"description": "Population-type fragment (Low Income, Migrant Farmworker...).",
"examples": [
"Low Income"
],
"type": "string"
},
"rural": {
"description": "true = rural / partially-rural only; false = non-rural.",
"examples": [
"true"
],
"type": "string"
},
"since": {
"description": "Designated on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).",
"examples": [
"2020-01-01"
],
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "score | designation_date | shortage_fte :asc|:desc. Default score:desc.",
"examples": [
"score:desc"
],
"type": "string"
},
"state": {
"description": "Primary state/territory code(s), CSV.",
"examples": [
"TX"
],
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"description": "Designated | Proposed for Withdrawal | Withdrawn (CSV).",
"examples": [
"Designated"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [],
"type": "object"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api.govparse.io/v1/hrsa/hpsa/search" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://api.govparse.io/v1/hrsa/hpsa/search");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://api.govparse.io/v1/hrsa/hpsa/search")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/14585.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.