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For geographic areas where the age distribution of the population is not known, it will be assumed that the percentage distribution, by age groups, for the area is the same as the distribution for the county of which it is a part.

(3) Determination of Estimated Supply of Optometric Visits.

The estimated supply of optometric services will be determined by use of the following formula:

Optometric visits supplied = 3,000 × (number of optometrists under 65) Optometric visits supplied + 2,000 × (number of optometrists 65 and over) Optometric visits supplied + 1,500 × (number of ophthamologists)

(4) Determination of Size of Shortage. Size of shortage (in number of optometric visits) will be computed as follows:

Optometric visit shortage = visits required - visits supplied

(5) Contiguous Area Considerations.

Vision care professional(s) in area contiguous to an area being considered for designation will be considered execessively distant, overutilized or inaccessible to the population of the area if one of the following conditions prevails in each contiguous area:

(a) Vision care professional(s) in the contiguous area are more than 40 minutes travel time from the center of the area being considered for designation (measured in accordance with paragraph B.1(b) of this part).

(b) The estimated requirement for vision care services in the contiguous area exceeds the estimated supply of such services there, based on the requirements and supply calculations previously described.

(c) Vision care professional(s) in the contiguous area are inaccessible to the population of the area because of specified access barriers (such as economic or cultural barriers).

C. Determination of Degree-of-Shortage. Designated areas (and population groups) will be assigned to degree-of-shortage groups, based on the ratio of optometric vis

its supplied to optometric visits required for the area (or group), as follows:

Group 1-Areas (or groups) with no optometric visits being supplied (i.e., with no optometrists or ophthalmologists).

Group 2-Areas (or groups) where the ratio of optometric visits supplied to optometric visits required is less than 0.5.

Group 3-Areas (or groups) where the ratio of optometric visits supplied to optometric visits required is between 0.5 and 1.0.

Part II-Population Groups

A. Criteria.

Population groups within particular geographic areas will be designated if both the following criteria are met:

(1) Members of the population group do not have access to vision care resources within the area (or in contiguous areas) because of non-physical access barriers (such as economic or cultural barriers).

(2) The estimated number of optometric visits supplied to the population group (as determined under paragraph B.3 of part I of this Appendix) is less than the estimated number of visits required by that group (as determined under paragraph B.2 of part I of this Appendix), and the computed shortage is at least 1,500 optometric visits.

B. Determination of Degree of Shortage.

The degree of shortage of a given population group will be determined in the same way as described for areas in paragraph C of part I of this appendix.

APPENDIX E TO PART 5 CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF AREAS HAVING SHORTAGES OF PODIATRIC PROFESSIONAL(S)

Part I-Geographic Areas

A. Criteria.

A geographic area will be designated as having a shortage of podiatric professional(s) if the following three criteria are met:

1. The area is a rational area for the delivery of podiatric services.

2. The area's ratio of population to foot care practitioners is at least 28,000:1, and the computed podiatrist shortage to meet this ratio is at least 0.5.

3. Podiatric professional(s) in contiguous areas are overutilized, excessively distant, or inaccessible to the population of the area under consideration.

B. Methodology.

In determining whether an area meets the criteria established by paragraph A of this Part, the following methodology will be used:

1. Rational Areas for the Delivery of Podiatric Services.

(a) The following areas will be considered rational areas for the delivery of podiatric services:

(i) A county or a group of contiguous counties whose population centers are within 40 minutes travel time of each other.

(ii) A portion of a county, or an area made up of portions of more than one county, whose population, because of topography, market and/or transportation patterns or other factors, has limited access to contiguous area resources, as measured generally by a travel time of greater than 40 minutes from its population center to these resources.

(b) The following distances will be used as guidelines in determining distances corresponding to 40 minutes travel time:

(i) Under normal conditions with primary roads available: 25 miles.

(ii) In mountainous terrain or in areas with only secondary roads available: 20 miles.

(iii) In flat terrain or in areas connected by interstate highways: 30 miles.

Within inner portions of metropolitan areas, information on the public transportation system will be used to determine the area corresponding to 40 minutes travel time.

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Number of FTE podiatrists = 1.0 x (podia

trists under age 55)

+ .8 × (podiatrists age 55 and over)

(b) In order to take into account the fact that orthopedic surgeons and general and family practitioners devote a percentage of their time to foot care, the total available foot care practitioners will be computed as follows:

Number of foot care practitioners = number of FTE podiatrists

+ .15 x (number of orthopedic surgeons) + .02 × (number of general and family practioners).

4. Determination of Size of Shortage.

Size of shortage (in number of FTE podiatrists) will be computed as follows:

Podiatrist shortage = adjusted population/ 28,000 number of FTE foot care practitioners.

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5. Contiguous Area Considerations.

Podiatric professional(s) in areas contiguous to an area being considered for designation will be considered excessively distant, overutilized or inaccessible to the population of the area under consideration if one of the following conditions prevails in each contig

uous area:

(a) Podiatric professional(s) in the contiguous area are more than 40 minutes travel time from the center of the area being considered for designation.

(b) The population-to-foot care practitioner ratio in the contiguous areas is in excess of 20,000:1, indicating that contiguous area podiatric professional(s) cannot be expected to help alleviate the shortage situation in the area for which designation is requested.

(c) Podiatric professional(s) in the contiguous area are inaccessible to the population of the area under consideration because of specified access barriers (such as economic or cultural barriers).

C. Determination of Degree of Shortage.

Designated areas will be assigned to groups, based on the ratio (R) of adjusted population to number of foot care practitioners, as follows:

Group 1 Areas with no foot care practitioners, and areas with R > 50,000 and no podiatrists.

Group 2 Other areas with R > 50,000.
Group 3 Areas with 50,000 > R > 28,000.

APPENDIX F TO PART 5 CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF AREAS HAVING SHORTAGES OF PHARMACY PROFESSIONAL(S)

Part 1-Geographic Areas

A. Criteria.

A geographic area will be designated as having a shortage of pharmacy professional(s) if the following three criteria are met:

1. The area is a rational area for the delivery of pharmacy services.

2. The number of pharmacists serving the area is less than the estimated requirement for pharmacists in the area, and the computed pharmacist shortage is at least 0.5.

3. Pharmacists in contiguous areas are overutilized or excessively distant from the population of the area under consideration. B. Methodology.

In determining whether an area meets the criteria established by paragraph A of this Part, the following methodology will be used:

1. Rational Areas for the Delivery of Pharmacy Services.

(a) The following areas will be considered rational areas for the delivery of pharmacy services:

(i) A county, or a group of contiguous counties whose population centers are within 30 minutes travel time of each other; and

(ii) A portion of a county, or an area made up of portions of more than one county, whose population, because of topography, market or transportation patterns or other factors, has limited access to contiguous area resources, as measured generally by a travel time of greater than 30 minutes to these resources.

(b) The following distances will be used as guidelines in determining distances corresponding to 30 minutes travel time:

(i) Under normal conditions with primary roads available: 20 miles.

(ii) In mountainous terrain or in areas with only secondary roads available: 15 miles.

(iii) In flat terrain or in areas connected by interstate highways: 25 miles.

Within inner portions of metropolitan areas, information on the public transportation system will be used to determine the area corresponding to 30 minutes travel time.

2. Counting of Pharmacists.

All active pharmacists within the area will be counted, except those engaged in teaching, administration, or pharmaceutical research.

3. Determination of Estimated Requirement for Pharmacists.

(a) Basic estimate. The basic estimated requirement for pharmacists will be calculated as follows:

Basic pharmacist requirement = .15 x (resi

dent civilian population/1,000) + .035 × (total number of physicians engaged in patient care in the area).

(b) Adjusted estimate. For areas with less than 20,000 persons, the following adjustment is made to the basic estimate to compensate

for the lower expected productivity of small practices.

Estimated pharmacist requirement = (2 population/20,000) × basic pharmacist requirement.

4. Size of Shortage Computation.

The size of the shortage will be computed as follows:

Pharmacist shortage = estimated pharmacist requirement number of pharmacists available.

5. Contiguous Area Considerations.

Pharmacists in areas contiguous to an area being considered for designation will be considered excessively distant or overutilized if either:

(a) Pharmacy professional(s) in contiguous areas are more than 30 minutes travel time from the center of the area under consideration, or

(b) The number of pharmacists in each contiguous area is less than or equal to the estimated requirement for pharmacists for that contiguous area (as computed above).

C. Determination of Degree-of-Shortage. Designated areas will be assigned to degree-of-shortage groups, based on the proportion of the estimated requirement for pharmacists which is currently available in the area, as follows:

Group 1-Areas with no pharmacists.

Group 2-Areas where the ratio of available pharmacists to pharmacists required is less than 0.5.

Group 3-Areas where the ratio of available pharmacists to pharmacists required is between 0.5 and 1.0.

APPENDIX G TO PART 5 CRITERIA FOR

THE DESIGNATION OF AREAS HAVING
SHORTAGES OF VETERINARY PROFES-
SIONAL(S)

Part 1-Geographic Areas

A. Criteria for Food Animal Veterinary Shortage.

A geographic area will be designated as having a shortage of food animal veterinary professional(s) if the following three criteria are met:

1. The area is a rational area for the delivery of veterinary services.

2. The ratio of veterinary livestock units to food animal veterinarians in the area is at least 10,000:1, and the computed food animal veterinarian shortage to meet this ratio is at least 0.5.

3. Food animal veterinarians in contiguous areas are overutilized or excessively distant from the population of the area under consideration.

B. Criteria for Companion Animal Veterinary Shortage.

A geographic area will be designated as having a shortage of companion animal veterinary professional(s) if the following three criteria are met:

1. The area is a rational area for the delivery of veterinary services.

2. The ratio of resident civilian population to number of companion animal veterinarians in the area is at least 30,000:1 and the computed companion animal veterinary shortage to meet this ratio is at least 0.5.

3. Companion animal veterinarians in contiguous areas are overutilized or excessively distant from the population of the area under consideration.

C. Methodology.

In determining whether an area meets the criteria established by paragraphs A and B of this part, the following methodology will be used:

1. Rational Areas for the Delivery of Veterinary Services.

(a) The following areas will be considered rational areas for the delivery of veterinary services:

(i) A county, or a group of contiguous counties whose population centers are within 40 minutes travel time of each other.

(ii) A portion of a county (or an area made up of portions of more than one county) which, because of topography, market and/or transportation patterns or other factors, has limited access to contiguous area resources, as measured generally by a travel time of greater than 40 minutes to these resources.

(b) The following distances will be used as guidelines in determining distances corresponding to 40 minutes travel time:

(i) Under normal conditions with primary roads available: 25 miles.

(ii) In mountainous terrain or in areas with only secondary roads available: 20 miles.

(iii) In flat terrain or in areas connected by interstate highways: 30 miles.

2. Determination of Number of Veterinary Livestock Units (VLU) Requiring Care.

Since various types of food animals require varying amounts of veterinary care, each type of animal has been assigned a weight indicating the amount of veterinary care it requires relative to that required by a milk cow. Those weights are used to compute the number of "Veterinary Livestock Units" (VLU) for which veterinary care is required. The VLU is computed as follows:

Veterinary Livestock Units (VLU)=(number of milk cows)

+.2x(number of other cattle and calves)
+.05×(number of hogs and pigs)
+.05×(number of sheep)
+.002×(number of poultry).

3. Counting of Food Animal Veterinarians. The number of food animal veterinarians is determined by weighting the number of veterinarians within each of several practice

categories according to the average fraction of practice time in that category which is devoted to food animal veterinary care, as follows:

Number of

Food Animal Veterinarians (number of veterinarians in large animal practice, exclusively)

+(number of veterinarians in bovine practice, exclusively)

+(number of veterinarians in poultry practice, exclusively) +.75x(mixed

practice veterinarians with greater than 50% of practice in large animal care)

+.5x(mixed practice veterinarians with approximately 50% of practice in large animal care)

+.25x(mixed practice veterinarians with less than 50% of practice in large animal care).

4. Counting of Companion Animal Veterinarians (that is, those who provide services for dogs, cats, horses, and any other animals maintained as companions to the owner rather than as food animals).

The number of full-time equivalent companion animal veterinarians is determined by weighting the number of veterinarians within each of several practice categories by the average portion of their practice which is devoted to companion animal care by the practitioners within that category, as fol

lows:

Number of Companion Animal Veterinarians (number of veterinarians in large animal practice, exclusively) +(number of veterinarians in equine practice, exclusively)

+.75x(mixed

practice veterinarians with greater than 50% of practice in small animal care)

+.5x(mixed practice veterinarians with approximately 50% of practice in small animal care)

+.25x(mixed practice veterinarians with less than 50% of practice in small animal care).

5. Size of Shortage Computation.

The size of shortage will be computed as follows:

(a) Food animal veterinarian shortage=(VLU/10,000) – (number of food animal veterinarians).

(b) Companion animal veterinarian shortage=(resident civilian pop./30,000)-(number of companion animal veterinarians).

6. Contiguous Area Considerations. Veterinary professional(s) in areas contiguous to an area being considered for designation will be considered excessively distant from the population of the area or overutilized if one of the following conditions prevails in each contiguous area:

(a) Veterinary professional(s) in the contiguous area are more than 60 minutes travel

time from the center of the area being considered for designation (measured in accordance with paragraph C.1.(b) of this part).

(b) In the case of food animal veterinary professional(s), the VLU-to-food animal veterinarian ratio in the contiguous area is in excess of 5,000:1.

(c) In the case of companion animal veterinary professional(s), the population-to-companion animal veterinarian ratio in the contiguous area is in excess of 15,000:1.

C. Determination of Degree-of-Shortage. Designated areas will be assigned to degree-of-shortage groups as follows:

Group 1-Areas with a food animal veterinarian shortage and no veterinarians.

Group 2-Areas (not included above) with a food animal veterinarian shortage and no food animal veterinarians.

Group 3-All other food animal veterinarian shortage areas.

Group 4-All companion animal shortage areas (not included above) having no veterinarians.

Group 5-All other companion animal shortage areas.

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Covered entity means an entity described in §6.3 which has been deemed by the Secretary, in accordance with §6.5, to be covered by this part.

Covered individual means an individual described in §6.4.

Effective date as used in §6.5 and §6.6 refers to the date of the Secretary's determination that an entity is a covered entity.

Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and any other officer or employee of the Department of HHS to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

Subrecipient means an entity which receives a grant or a contract from a covered entity to provide a full range of health services on behalf of the covered entity.

$6.3 Eligible entities.

(a) Grantees. Entities eligible for coverage under this part are public and nonprofit private entities receiving Federal funds under any of the following grant programs:

(1) Section 329 of the Act (relating to grants for migrant health centers);

(2) Section 330 of the Act (relating to grants for community health centers);

(3) Section 340 of the Act (relating to grants for health services for the homeless); and

(4) Section 340A of the Act (relating to grants for health services for residents of public housing).

(b) Subrecipients. Entities that are subrecipients of grant funds described in paragraph (a) of this section are eligible for coverage only if they provide a full range of health care services on behalf of an eligible grantee and only for those services carried out under the grant funded project.

§ 6.4 Covered individuals.

(a) Officers and employees of a covered entity are eligible for coverage under this part.

(b) Contractors of a covered entity who are physicians or other licensed or certified health care practitioners are eligible for coverage under this part if they meet the requirements of section 224(g)(5) of the Act.

(c) An individual physician or other licensed or certified health care practitioner who is an officer, employee, or

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