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Figures
- Figure 1.
Distribution of family medicine physicians and pediatricians by annual number of wellness visits.
Note: Estimated annual total number of wellness visits for each physician. Blue dashed line denotes 10–wellness visit threshold. The bimodal distribution, with large right skew, indicates that most family physicians and pediatricians had more than 200 wellness visits per year, but a small proportion had fewer than 10 per year.
- Figure 2.
Multistep method for identifying the active primary care workforce in Virginia, 2019.
DO = doctor of osteopathic medicine; MD = doctor of medicine.
a Primary care designation required either family medicine speciality or another specialty with ≥10 wellness visit codes for the year.
- Figure 3.
Venn diagram for identifying the 5,899 members of Virginia’s active primary care workforce in 2019.
DO = doctor of osteopathic medicine; MD = doctor of medicine; VA-APCD = Virginia All-Payer Claims Database.
Notes: Diagram based on all active clinicians in Virginia in 2019 (as determined from ≥1 claim in VA-APCD database). Top left (blue) includes 25,332 clinicians who held a Virginia license. Top right (orange) includes 147,577 physicians who had an MD or DO degree. Bottom center (gray) includes 366 clinicians likely serving in a primary care capacity as ascertained from wellness visit claims, but who did not hold a Virginia license and did not have an MD or DO degree.
Tables
Year and Workforce Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Obstetrics and Gynecology Other Specialties All 2015 Total, No. 2,942 5,273 1,792 1,055 9,202 20,264 Primary care, No. (%) 2,942 (100.0) 1,141 (21.6) 1,011 (56.4) 735 (69.7) 31 (0.3) 5,860 (28.9) 2016 Total, No. 2,948 5,264 1,756 1,025 9,094 20,087 Primary care, No. (%) 2,948 (100.0) 1,153 (21.9) 1,016 (57.9) 723 (70.5) 41 (0.5) 5,881 (29.3) 2017 Total, No. 2,946 5,308 1,787 1,038 9,116 20,195 Primary care, No. (%) 2,946 (100.0) 1,128 (21.2) 1,021 (57.1) 720 (69.4) 32 (0.4) 5,847 (29.0) 2018 Total, No. 3,060 5,490 1,794 1,054 9,394 20,792 Primary care, No. (%) 3,060 (100.0) 1,112 (20.3) 1,009 (56.2) 713 (67.6) 27 (0.3) 5,921 (28.5) 2019 Total, No. 3,089 5,521 1,835 1,060 9,471 20,976 Primary care, No. (%) 3,089 (100.0) 1,093 (19.8) 991 (54.0) 697 (65.7) 29 (0.3) 5,899 (28.1) Note: Primary care workforce was defined as physicians in family medicine specialty or physicians in other specialties having at least 10 wellness visits annually.
SUPPLEMENTAL DATA IN PDF FILE BELOW
Supplemental Table 1. NUCC Classification Categories
Supplemental Table 2. Taxonomy Codes
Supplemental Table 3. Procedure Codes for Wellness Visits
