General medical hospitals only (no specialty or psychiatric hospitals)
Supplementary notes
All data are estimates.
Data not available for 2022 General medical and surgical hospitals (Government owned), due to low data quality.
* The Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) replaced the Service Annual Survey (SAS) beginning with survey year 2023. Unlike SAS, which covered only services, AIES uses a company-based reporting unit spanning retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and services, with wording that can introduce level shifts in otherwise comparable series. The survey also adds subnational state and regional estimates with no SAS equivalent, and from 2025 onward transitions from 2017 to 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes while introducing North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) product data. Because no formal bridge study links the final SAS (2022) to the first AIES (2023), the transition must be treated as a structural break rather than a seamless continuation.
Data preceding 2023 retrieved from earlier SAS releases.
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Number of outpatient visits in U.S. hospitals 2015-2023, by ownership
In 2023, around million outpatient visits took place in hospitals across the United States. During that year, with an estimated million visits, most outpatient visits took place in general medical and surgical hospitals that are privately owned. Since 2015, the number of outpatient visits has had an overall increase in the US. However, as a probable result of the pandemic, the number of outpatient visits decreased in 2020.
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U.S. Census Bureau. (February 26, 2026). Number of outpatient visits in the United States from 2015 to 2023, by type of hospital ownership (in millions) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved August 04, 2026, from /statistics/1323052/number-of-outpatient-visits-by-type-of-hospital-in-the-us/
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U.S. Census Bureau. "Number of Outpatient Visits in The United States from 2015 to 2023, by Type of Hospital Ownership (in Millions) ." ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Inc., 26 Feb 2026, /statistics/1323052/number-of-outpatient-visits-by-type-of-hospital-in-the-us/
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Number of outpatient visits in the United States from 2015 to 2023, by type of hospital ownership (in millions) [Graph], U.S. Census Bureau, February 26, 2026. [Online]. Available: /statistics/1323052/number-of-outpatient-visits-by-type-of-hospital-in-the-us/
