Americans Made Over 1 Billion Hospital and Doctor Visits in 2006

Patients in the United States made an estimated 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments (EDs) in 2006--an average of four visits per person per year, according to new healthcare statistics released Aug. 6 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data come from various components of CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics National Health Care Survey and are featured in a series of new national health statistics reports.

More information is available via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8.6.08.