1.  Who can help you to plan this and what services will this patient need?

2.  At least some of the projected saving was to be used to create new community-based mental health programs that are more responsive to patient needs.

3.  If the patient needs tests or specialty care, the physician group must provide it or pay for it.

4.  Medical call centers, staffed by nurses, provide medical information, screen patient needs and direct them to the most cost-effective care.

5.  Non-profits argue that their for-profit competitors simply care more about the bottom line than patient needs -- especially the needs of rural communities and indigent patients.

6.  Once that is known, the doctor and patient need to make some serious choices.

7.  The Menninger Clinic has been branching out from the Topeka campus in recent years, in response to changes in patient needs and health-care reimbursements.

8.  It professes to develop drugs with an especially close eye to patient needs.

9.  The company also said it is confident there will be an adequate supply of Claritin to meet patient needs.