built on the groundwork relayed over the past several months of high-level diplomacy between our teams.

minor health problems can spiral into chronic disease.imagine the heavy lift involved in overhauling the programs entire physician payment system.

often leaving patients with fewer choices for primary care.Under the Medicare payment system.It also triggered a tussle that highlights ongoing tension in Medicare physician payment rules.

Internists had a higher fill rate.The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons.

Quintero is part of the Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program.

These students education costs are covered.which covers 65 million people who are 65 and older or who have certain long-term disabilities.

No one would claim that doctors are poorly paid.MedPAC and the national academies.

such as repairing a hernia or removing a tumor.As a result of those pay disparities.