A new survey indicates that physician appointment times are up 8% from 2017, up 24% from 2004; cardiology wait times are up, family medicine wait times are down.
September 14, 2022
According to a recent report by staffing firm AMN Healthcare and its physician consulting subdivision Merritt Hawkins, the average time a new patient needs to schedule a physician appointment across the United StatesThe report,"2022 Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates," suggests that it now takes an average of 26 days to schedule a new patient physician appointment in the 15 cities that constitute the most extensive healthcare markets...
The researchers estimated data from 1034 physician offices across five medical specialties — cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics-gynecology, family medicine, and orthopedic surgery — during a 10-week period between March and mid-May 2022. For a cardiology appointment, the average wait time rose by 26%, from 21.1 days in 2017 to 26.6 days. Cardiology appointment wait times are the longest in Portland, Oregon, at 49 days, and the shortest in Dallas, at 13 days.
Relative to 2017 reports, family medicine is the only specialty with a lower average appointment wait time. As a result of the adoption of telemedicine and urgent care centers, the average wait time for a family medicine appointment decreased by 30%, from 29.3 days in 2017 to 20.6 days. At 44 days, Portland, Oregon, has the longest wait time to see a family physician, whereas Washington, DC, has the shortest, at 8 days.
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