Emergency Visits On The Rise Emergency visit on the rise. Number of emergency visit increased almost by forty percent from the year nineteen seventy-three to nineteen ninety-three. In nineteen seventy-three, the number of visits were about sixty-five point nine billion visits per year, in nineteen ninety-three, the number of visits increased to ninety-four point seven billion visits. That’s approximately thirty billion visits more per year increase in a twenty years span. Thirty to fifty five percent of all these cases do not require immediate care and could have been handled less expensive in a doctor's