Lawmakers will need to adjust Medicare's payments to realistically compensate doctors for the extra time they spend on assessing geriatric patients and coordinating geriatric care teams,

Lawmakers will need to adjust Medicare's payments to realistically compensate doctors for the extra time they spend on assessing geriatric patients and coordinating geriatric care teams.

Sometimes, the (payment) rate is too high and Medicaid has to adjust the rate and recoup payments made.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

There are just two of us now so I can afford to spend a little extra. They are more expensive. If I had a family, I don't believe I would come here.

[Ask doctors about the time they spend with patients, and most go immediately on the defensive.] For some people, a periodic health exam is a metaphoric concept rather than a real one, ... Not all counseling and preventive services have to be done within that clinical visit; a doctor can get the ball rolling with additional visits for follow-up.