much of which remains disputed and without official demarcation.

No one would claim that doctors are poorly paid.would be to pay primary care physicians a set monthly amount per patient to provide all their care.

a second-year medical student at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in rural Pennsylvania.a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and former commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.and that starts with Medicare.

adding that long-term doctor-patient relationships are also attractive.have weighed in on the broad outlines of what such a transformation might look like.

already have the flexibility to bill more for more complex visits.

Primary care is the foundation of our health care system.Express Scripts said that our reimbursement rates to pharmacies for brand drugs vary based on a number of factors.

Performance fees have also boosted Medicare patients prescription costs at the pharmacy counter by hundreds of millions of dollars.The pressure on in-store pharmacists and technicians has led to aseries of walkoutsthis fall by CVS and Walgreens employees who say tight staffing has caused burnout and threatened patients safety.

including charging patients for delivery services and starting an all-cash concierge clinic.although they have no control over the patients actions.