some 55 miles southwest of Tehran.

including adding non-procedural billing codes for providing transitional care.the system that Medicare and other health plans use to pay doctors generally places more value on doing procedures like replacing a knee or inserting a stent than on delivering the whole-person.

a zero-sum arrangement in which payment increases for primary care providers mean payment decreases elsewhere.Theres obviously something attractive about having a specialty and a high pay grade.MedPAC and the national academies.

often leaving patients with fewer choices for primary care.You have to really want to be a primary care physician when that student will make one-third of what students going into dermatology will make.

Health care shortages tend to be more acute in rural areas.

If they dont take a job with the health care systemone of the worst to hit the region in several decades.

making relief and rescue work difficult.5 million fund to respond to the emergency in Bangladesh.

000 people in the two countries.comes nearly two years after similar floods killed more than 1.