{"id":7205,"date":"2017-06-24T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:49:04","slug":"in-defense-of-medicares-annual-wellness-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7205","title":{"rendered":"In defense of Medicare\u2019s annual wellness exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mara Schonberg for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span>n my work as a primary care physician, time is a precious commodity. I rarely have enough of it in office visits with my patients. That\u2019s one reason I\u2019m all in favor of Medicare\u2019s free annual wellness visits, though I know that other physicians\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/06\/07\/medicare-annual-wellness-visit\/\">feel differently about them<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/06\/23\/medicare-annual-wellness-exam-doctors\/\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mara Schonberg for STAT) In my work as a primary care physician, time is a precious commodity. I rarely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}