claim: "[n]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of medicare patients they see."
author: tom price
evidence_1: mar 27, 2018 ... officials are close to limiting doses of the painkillers, but doctors say doing so ...  medicare officials thought they had finally figured out how to do their part to fix ...  to the old and disabled: in 2016, a staggering one in three of the 43.6 million ... by  it, including patients with chronic pain, primary care doctors and ...
evidence_2: oct 15, 2018 ... president obama promised that forcing doctors to use ehrs would ... nearly 40  percent of doctors list ehr design as one of the two things they ... it's no wonder  that 15 percent of providers limit the number of medicaid patients they'll see. ... by  embracing a business model known as "direct primary care.
evidence_3: mar 16, 2016 ... a growing number of states are enacting measures to limit ... collectively, primary  care physicians write the greatest volume of ... once overlooked and even  dismissed, pain has been a standard vital sign on a patient work-up for nearly ....  three days of opioids will usually suffice, they said, and rarely more ...
evidence_4: apr 26, 2018 ... glod describes a breast cancer patient who recently had trouble with a prior ...  many frontline physicians and clinical leaders feel caught in the ... literature  accompanying the guidelines notes that “primary care providers account for  nearly ... most limit initial opioid prescriptions to 7 days, although the limit in ...
evidence_5: oct 1, 2018 ... care providers, and facilities will ask for your new number, so carry your new ...  part a or part b, see section 1, which starts on page 15. ... new coverage begins  if you made a change. ... services from doctors and other health care providers ...  when you first enroll in medicare and during certain times of the ...