Time to Care – Primary Care Visit Duration and Value-Based Healthcare

How long should a primary care visit take? Answering this question is essential to realizing the full promise of primary care as an effective strategy for improving patient outcomes and reining in out of control health care spending.1,2 Moving from volume to value-based health care has been shown to improve patient experience, and decrease emergency department and urgent care visits, hospitalizations, referrals to specialists, and overall cost.1 However, value-based professional care also takes time.