Medicare also has begun paying for doctors to coordinate the care of patients with chronic conditions. To be eligible for an extra $40 per patient, doctors must draft and help carry out a comprehensive plan of care for each patient who signs up for one. Under federal rules, those patients have access to doctors or other health care providers on a doctor’s staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to deal with “urgent chronic care needs” (Edwards and Landon, 2014).