Wyoming had the lowest number of professionally active primary care physicians in 2012, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
There were a total of 397,130 primary care physicians in the United States in 2012.
The ten states with the lowest number of primary care physicians, according to the report, were:
1. Wyoming — 543
2. North Dakota — 874
3. Alaska — 870
4. South Dakota — 962
5. Vermont — 972
6. Montana — 1,010
7. Delaware — 1,267
8. Idaho — 1,406
9. Hawaii — 1,730
10. New Hampshire — 1,754
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