Table 1.

Proportion of REC Providers and Practices in Key Demographic Categories and Practice Settings

Providers	No. of Providers Enrolled with an REC*	Total No. of Providers Nationwide †	Proportion of Providers Enrolled with an REC (%)
Rural primary care providers‡	24,215	47,000	52
Total primary care providers§	131,967	302,362	44

Organizations	No. of Organizations Enrolled with an REC1	Total No. of Organizations Nationwide	Proportion of Organizations Enrolled with an REC (%)
Federally qualified health center¶
Look-alike grantees	954	1,147	83
Critical access hospitals∥	1,033	1,327	78

Sites	No. of Sites Enrolled with an REC1	Total No. of Sites Nationwide	Proportion of Sites Enrolled with an REC (%)
Comprehensive primary care initiative sites**	265	503	53
Advanced primary care initiative sites††	409	500	82

Note.

^*US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Customer Relationship Management database, July 10, 2013.

^†SK&A Office-based Providers Database, SK&A Information Services 2011, Irvine, CA.

^‡Rural areas defined using the Core Based Statistical Area Micropolitan and Small Rural designations in US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions2011. Area Resource File, 2011–2012. Rockville, MD. Primary Care Provider count includes physicians, NPs, and PAs. Community health aide practitioners and nurse midwives were excluded from the numerator because these counts are not available in the SK&A database.

^§Primary Care Provider count includes physicians, NPs, and PAs.

^¶Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) universe and matching of FQHC grantees against REC-enrolled practices defined using the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration2011. Data Warehouse. Rockville, MD.

^∥Critical Access Hospital (CAH) denominator and matching of CAHs against REC-enrolled practices defined using the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services2013a. CMS Certified Hospital List. Baltimore, MD.

^**Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPC) denominator and matching of CPC sites against REC-enrolled practices defined using the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation2011a. List of Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative sites, August 2011. Baltimore, MD.

^††Advanced Primary Care Initiative (APC) denominator and matching of APC sites against REC-enrolled practices defined using the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation2011b. List of FQHC Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration sites, November, 2011. Baltimore, MD.