Here are 15 statistics on orthopedic patient visits from the Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report 2014.
Hours spent seeing patients per week:
• 30 to 40 hours: 27 percent
• 41 to 45 hours: 15 percent
• 46 to 50 hours: 17 percent
• 51 to 55 hours: 10 percent
• 56 to 60 hours: 12 percent
Number of patient visits per week
• 25 to 49 patient visits: 9 percent
• 50 to 75 patient visits: 24 percent
• 76 to 99 patient visits: 23 percent
• 100 to 124 patient visits: 22 percent
• 125 to 149 patient visits: 10 percent
Time spent with each patient:
• Less than nine minutes: 11 percent
• Nine to 12 minutes: 38 percent
• 13 to 16 minutes: 29 percent
Discussion on costs:
• 24 percent of orthopedics surgeons regularly discuss costs with patients while 59 percent sometimes do, if the patient brings up the subject.
• 8 percent never discuss the cost of treatment because they don't know the cost, while another 5 percent never discuss costs because they think it's inappropriate.