advertisementĪs the CEO of Zocdoc, a company whose entire existence is predicated on empowering patients to quickly and easily get in to see a health care provider, I recognize that it may seem self-serving to focus on reducing long wait times. And while residents of New York can consider themselves “fortunate” to have an average wait time of just over two weeks to access care (17.4 days), people in Portland, Boston and Minneapolis are facing the longest average wait times at 45.6 days, 33.8 days, and 30.8 days respectively. Wait times grew across dermatology (+7%), cardiology (+26%), and orthopedic surgery (+42%) between 20.
The average wait time for an OB-GYN appointment is 31.4 days, a 19% increase from 2017. The story is even worse when you look under the hood at certain specialties and markets. In their 2022 survey, the wait for a new patient appointment increased to an average of 26 days. That year, the national average wait to get in to see a new physician was 21 days, an unacceptable amount of time to wait to access care. In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times. Opinion: Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis
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