{"id":8992,"date":"2017-12-19T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2017-12-19T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:03:56","slug":"average-wait-time-for-a-physician-appointment-is-24-1-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"Average wait time for a physician appointment is 24.1 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">The average wait time for a physician appointment in 15 large U.S. metro markets is 24.1 days according to the 2017 Merritt Hawkins survey. New data from athenahealth which shows the long wait times issue is exacerbated when the patients are considered \u201cnew\u201d or they haven\u2019t visited the practice in at least three years. <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2017\/12\/patients-waiting\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-95YAFEdkhq9Rbod38rzrIABHgC1hK9FBqSqZ01OlelY4wza4L6KuoPYkBdcIsJYVKV34wTfVdNb2K-DrdwNpUc7cnqmg&amp;_hsmi=59489623&amp;rf=1\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average wait time for a physician appointment in 15 large U.S. metro markets is 24.1 days according to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}