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HRSAWorkforce and accessUpdated 2026-06-14

HRSA Medically Underserved Areas / Populations

Federal Medically Underserved Area / Population (MUA/MUP) designations — service areas and populations with insufficient access to primary care. Source: Health Resources & Services Administration · 2026-06-14

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4,903
MUA/MUP designations
As of 2026-06-14
HRSA · 2026-06-14
2026
Temporal coverage
Refreshed quarterly
HRSA · 2026-06-14
Location
FHIR resource
FHIR R4 · hrsa-mua-mup/v1
Fonteum methodology

FHIR Location · Sample record

What a record looks like in the API response.

Sample record
{
  "resourceType": "Location",
  "id": "mua-1234567",
  "_source": "hrsa-mua-mup",
  "_methodology": "hrsa-mua-mup/v1",
  "name": "Example Service Area MUA",
  "extension": [{ "url": "imuScore", "valueDecimal": 55.4 }]
}

Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.

cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \
  "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Location?_source=hrsa-mua-mup" \
  | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'

Dataset facts

Dataset facts for HRSA Medically Underserved Areas / Populations
FieldValue
AgencyHealth Resources & Services AdministrationHRSA · 2026-06-14
CategoryWorkforce and access
Records4,903 MUA/MUP designationsHRSA · 2026-06-14
Temporal coverage2026
Refresh cadenceQuarterly
Freshness SLAWithin 7 days of HRSA Data Warehouse release
Last synced2026-06-14Updated 2026-06-14
FHIR resourceLocation
Methodologyhrsa-mua-mup/v1
MeasuredMUA/MUP designation type, IMU score, status, and geography per designation
Upstream sourcedata.hrsa.gov →

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Citations

  1. Health Resources & Services Administration — HRSA Medically Underserved Areas / Populations (upstream source)
  2. Fonteum methodology (hrsa-mua-mup/v1)
  3. Editorial & licensing policy

The substrate, by the numbers

9.2Mgraph entitiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities
12.5Mlinked identifiersNPIs, CCNs, LEIs and more, resolved to entities
4.7Mgraph edgesSource-attested relationships between entities
44federal source familiesDistinct CMS, OIG, HRSA, FDA and peer datasets
33dataset pagesCitable, downloadable /data catalog pages
48reproducible studiesEach shipping the SQL behind its figures

Built on the authoritative federal record

The primary sources, named on every page.

These are the federal agencies whose public datasets Fonteum ingests and attributes — the issuing authorities, not customers or partners. Every figure on the site links back to one of them.

  • CMS
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  • HRSA
  • FDA
  • NLM
  • NUCC
  • Census
  • BLS
  • BEA

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Reproducible by design

Every figure traces to its federal source.

14-tuple provenance

Every rendered fact ties to a source URL, dataset ID, snapshot date, row key, and SHA-256 — the full chain-of-custody record.

Reproducible SQL

Each study ships the exact query behind its figures, run against the cited federal snapshot. Re-run it yourself.

Daily reconciliation

Published counts are reconciled against the upstream federal datasets on a daily cadence, with drift logged.

Named medical review

Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.

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