In the United States, there were roughly 268 thousand primary care physicians (PCPs) actively working in 2021. Most PCPs were either specialized in family medicine or internal medicine. The third most common specialty for primary care physicians in the United States was pediatrics.

Health professionals, especially primary care physicians, are in high demand in many parts of the U.S. Some areas are experiencing health professional shortages. This map shows the ratio of population to primary care physicians in the U.S. Areas in dark red show where there are less primary care physicians per person.The data comes from County Health Rankings, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, measure the health of nearly all counties in the nation and rank them within states. The layer used in the map comes from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, and the full documentation for the layer can be found here.County data are suppressed if, for both years of available data, the population reported by agencies is less than 50% of the population reported in Census or less than 80% of agencies measuring crimes reported data.

Data on visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments and hospital emergency departments by selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time. Note that the data file available here has more recent years of data than what is shown in the PDF or Excel version. Data for 2017 physician office visits are not available. SOURCE: NCHS, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. For more information on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, see the corresponding Appendix entries at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17_appendix.pdf.

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This statistic depicts the annual compensation among family practice physicians in the U.S. according to different sources and organizations. As of 2018, Sullivan Cotter Medical Group reported an annual compensation for family practitioners of some 267 thousand U.S. dollars, while Compdata came to some 235 thousand dollars annually.

ONC uses the SK&A Office-based Provider Database to calculate the counts of medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants at the state and count level from 2011 through 2013. These counts are grouped as a total, as well as segmented by each provider type and separately as counts of primary care providers.

In 2021, in some specialties, female primary care physicians (PCPs) were more common than men. Geriatrics and pediatrics were specialties where PCPs were predominantly female in the United States. For instance, two-thirds of PCPs who specialized in pediatrics were women. On the other hand, just 41 percent of PCPs who specialized in internal medicine in the U.S. were female in 2021.

This statistic shows the frequency adults in the U.S. visited or consulted a primary care physician as of 2018. According to data provided by Ipsos, ** percent of U.S. adults stated they visited or consulted a primary care physician just once a year.

Neither rural areas nor urban areas predominate with respect to any specific range of the family physician ratios. The Federal and Provincial Advisory Committee on Health Manpower recommended that a ratio of 1307:1 would be a suitable target for family physicians. In contrast to the distribution of physician specialists, family physicians are more prevalent in terms of their presence in virtually all areas of Canada.

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United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: General/Family Practice was 186.02700 Index Dec 1993=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: General/Family Practice reached a record high of 186.02700 in May of 2025 and a record low of 100.00000 in December of 1993. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: General/Family Practice - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Some racial and ethnic categories are suppressed for privacy and to avoid misleading estimates when the relative standard error exceeds 30% or the unweighted sample size is less than 50 respondents.

Data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (BRFSS) Data

Why This Matters

Regular visits to the doctor can catch health issues early when they're easier and cheaper to treat, but millions of Americans lack access to primary care services, such as routine checkups.

Gaps in access to primary care often stem from factors like lack of health insurance, language and transportation barriers, and a shortage of healthcare providers in different areas, which can prevent people from getting regular check-ups and timely treatment.

Racial inequities in health insurance rates remain barriers to regular, high-quality medical care. Nationally, residents who identify as Hispanic or Native American and Alaska Natives are roughly three times as likely to be uninsured compared to White and Asian residents.

The District Response

DC Healthy Families offers free health insurance to DC residents who meet certain income and U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status to qualify for DC Medicaid.

The School Health Services Program brings healthcare providers to schools to help bridge the gap between health and learning. This allows us to reach our youngest residents who might not otherwise have access to medical evaluations.

Living Well DC provides a guide for visiting the doctor that can help ease the stress around such a visit.

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Coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has important implications for access, and the value of coverage is dependent on the ability to access care. Most information about access to care comes from household or physician surveys. The current data collection was gathered as a part of the Primary Care Audit Study for 10 States in the United States, 2012-2013, 2014 and 2016 to assess variation in access to primary care using a methodology that was applied across different types of states (Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas) at baseline and over-time. The project was broken up into three phases: before the ACA (2012-2013), during the launch of ACA coverage provisions such as the Medicaid fee bump and ACA marketplaces (2014), and after the full ACA implementation (2016). Insurance types in the study included commercial coverage, Medicaid, uninsured, and, in 2014 and 2016, plans purchased on the ACA market place. The audit-level file, featured in part one of the collection, includes all completed calls and provides information from multiple dimensions (appointment availability, wait times, simulated patients' demographics, cost information, etc.). The office-level file, featured in part two of the collection, covers all eligible offices and their characteristics (e.g., size, insurance acceptability, cost information, etc.) collected from the screening phase. Demographic variables include simulated caller number, race, gender, and age.

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United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: All Other Patients: General/Family Practice was 120.00000 Index Jun 2014=100 in March of 2018, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: All Other Patients: General/Family Practice reached a record high of 120.00000 in March of 2018 and a record low of 99.60000 in November of 2016. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Offices of Physicians, Except Mental Health: All Other Patients: General/Family Practice - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.), and employers across the United States. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers. Data is publicly-available for two of the four MEPS components: the Household Component and the Insurance Component. Access to Medical Provider Component and Nursing Home Component data requires an application to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ).