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So much for the new patient surge

A new Athenahealth study offers some insight into the effect PPACA has had on new patient visits: There isnt the surge industry professionals predicted.

By Britt Chester | Updated on July 18, 2014
Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Shalum Scott sits in the waiting room to see his doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Sharon Ellman)

A new Athenahealth study offers some startling insight into the effect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has had on new patient visits: There isn’t the surge industry professionals predicted.

According to Athenahealth’s ACAView, which provides “timely, non-partisan measurement and analysis of how coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act affects the day-to-day practice of medicine,” there has been little change in the amount of new patient visits to primary care, pediatric, OB/GYN, surgery and “other” medical facilities.

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