{"id":3852,"date":"2017-07-24T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:08:22","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-office-based-primary-care-physicians-accepting-new-patients-by-source-of-payment-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/07\/24\/3852\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Office-Based Primary Care Physicians Accepting New Patients, by Source of Payment Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6628a9.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6628qsf.gif\" width=\"421\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 88.9% of primary care physicians reported that they accepted new patients.<\/p>\n<p>However, acceptance varied by the patient\u2019s expected payment source: 94.2% of physicians accepting new patients accepted privately insured patients, 77.4% accepted new Medicare patients, and 71.6% accepted new Medicaid patients.<\/p>\n<p>The percentages of primary care physicians accepting new Medicaid or Medicare patients were significantly lower than the percentage of primary care physicians accepting new privately insured patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6628a9.htm?\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6628a9.htm?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 88.9% of primary care physicians reported that they accepted new patients. However, acceptance varied by the patient\u2019s expected payment source: 94.2% of physicians accepting new patients accepted privately insured patients, 77.4% accepted new Medicare patients, and 71.6% accepted new Medicaid patients. The percentages of primary care physicians accepting new Medicaid or Medicare patients were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62281,63764],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}