Percentage of Primary Care Physicians Who Did Not Accept New Patients (Based on Payment Source)

Here are the percentages of primary-care physicians who did not accept new patients listed by expected payment source, based on 2004 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Center Survey.

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  • Charity or no charge — 43.0 percent
  • Workers’ compensation — 42.3 percent
  • Capitated private insurance — 31.6 percent
  • Medicaid — 29.3 percent
  • Medicare — 20.3 percent
  • Noncapitated private insurance — 11.4 percent
  • Self-pay — 7.0 percent

Source: MMWR Weekly, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, QuickStats — Percentage of Office-Based Primary-Care Physicians Who Did Not Accept New Patients, by Expected Payment Source–National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2003-2004.

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