{"id":1956,"date":"2017-04-04T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2017-04-04T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:51:21","slug":"physician-appointment-wait-times-up-30-from-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Physician Appointment Wait Times Up 30% from 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Leaders\u00a0 |\u00a0 John Commins\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <span class=\"pub-date\">March 21, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The survey found that the average rate of physician Medicare acceptance is 85% in the 15 large metro markets and 81% in the 15 mid-sized markets. The average rate of physician Medicaid acceptance is 53% in the large metro markets and 60% in the mid-sized markets.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the survey shows that physician supply and accessibility will need to be enhanced as the healthcare system continues to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More physicians will need to be trained, access to other types of providers expanded, and emerging technologies employed to ensure that health care delayed does not become health care denied,&#8221; Smith said.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthleadersmedia.com\/physician-leaders\/physician-appointment-wait-times-30-2014?page=0%2C2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Leaders\u00a0 |\u00a0 John Commins\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 March 21, 2017 The survey found that the average rate of physician Medicare acceptance is 85% in the 15 large metro markets and 81% <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1956\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[740,741],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-physician-shortage","tag-wait-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}