Find HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas (Primary Care / Dental / Mental Health) by st
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.
30000 (raw units)
price
3
calls / 30d
2
unique payers
2026-09-16
updated
Provider
api.healthparse.io · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x177eA123A35253ba8869A7e21E717978e482351D",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "30000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"discipline": "example",
"min_score": "example",
"state": "example"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"records_notice": "Observational roster of HRSA Health Professional Shortage Area designations. One row per HPSA component (facility/geography) per discipline; a higher hpsa_score (0-26) and larger hpsa_fte shortage indicate greater designated shortage — a staffing-demand signal, not a judgment about any provider.",
"rows": [
{
"county_name": "Duval",
"designation_date": "2018-06-01",
"discipline_class": "Primary Care",
"hpsa_fte": 12.5,
"hpsa_id": "1123456789",
"hpsa_name": "Low Income - Duval County",
"hpsa_score": 18,
"primary_state": "FL",
"status": "Designated"
}
],
"total_matched": 1
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"routeTemplate": "/v1/hpsa/search",
"schema": {
"$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"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api.healthparse.io/v1/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.healthparse.io/v1/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.healthparse.io/v1/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/14898.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.