The relevant supply numbers are shown in Table 1. Applying the observed deficit per 100,000 for each county type to the corresponding population count for that county type, then summing across county types, they arrived at an estimated deficit for the Nation of 15,441. The numbers that they arrived at, representing the implied deficit for each separate scenario under three different sets of requirements standards, are shown in Table 3. See Table 4 for a description of adjustment methodology. In the expert-average case, it went from 15,441 to 29,160.
Additional work needs to done to refine the requirements standards for different types of areas.
Better data and methods of locating where physicians practice, particularly in metro-core areas, and where physicians have more than one practice location, are needed.