QuickStats: Health Center* Visit Rates,† by Adults Aged ≥18 Years with Mental Health Disorder,§ Substance Use Disorder, or Both, by Sex — United States, 2023
Weekly / January 9, 2025 / 74(1);17
* Health centers are community-based clinics that offer access to primary care to underserved communities.
† Visit rates, with 95% CIs indicated by error bars, are based on July 1, 2023, estimates of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population developed by the U.S. Census Bureau.
§ Based on a sample of approximately 100.4 million visits made by adults. Mental health disorders are defined as visits with an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code F01–F09 or F20–F99. Substance use disorders are defined as visits with an ICD-10-CM code F10–F19. Mental health disorder only and substance use disorder only are mutually exclusive categories.
In 2023, the health center visit rate for adults with a mental health disorder was 52.6 visits per 1,000 adults. This rate was higher than the rate of visits for a substance use disorder (9.8) or both disorders (13.3). This pattern was similar for men and women. The visit rate for women with a mental health disorder (73.0) was higher than the rate for men (30.2), but the rates for visits with a substance use disorder or both disorders were similar among both men and women.
Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174550
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Health Center Component, 2023.
Reported by: Loredana Santo, MD, lsanto@cdc.gov; Lello Guluma, MPH; Jill J. Ashman, PhD.
For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/mental-health/caring/index.html
Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Health Center Visit Rates, by Adults Aged ≥18 Years with Mental Health Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, or Both, by Sex — United States, 2023. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7401a4.