Most frequent medical diagnoses for primary care physicians in the U.S. for 2019

Published by Frédéric Michas, Sep 10, 2020

The graph illustrates the most common medical diagnoses recorded by primary care physicians in the U.S. for the year 2019. Essential (primary) hypertension was the most recorded diagnosis among primary care physicians during that year, with some 27.6 million such diagnoses.

Most common medical diagnoses recorded by primary care physicians in the U.S. for the year 2019

	Number of diagnoses
Essential (primary) hypertension	27,622,848
Hyperlipidemia, unspecified	10,518,729
Type 2 diabetes mellitus without complications	8,481,532
Encounter for general adult medical examination without abnormal findings	8,146,318
Encounter for immunization	5,677,826
Hypothyroidism, unspecified	5,258,476
Gastro-esophageal reflux disease without esophagitis	4,963,714
Atherosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery without angina pectoris	4,646,028
Mixed hyperlipidemia	4,261,902
Vitamin D deficiency, unspecified	3,969,503

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August 2020

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United States

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

Physician diagnosis analytics are from Definitive Healthcare’s Medical Claims database and reflect diagnosis volumes for physicians with an internal medicine specialty. Data represents all-payer medical claims through the end of the 2019 claims year, the most recent full-year data available. All-payer medical claims data is sourced from multiple medical claims clearinghouses in the United States and is updated monthly. Accessed August 2020.

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