The Primary Care Physician provides comprehensive primary medical care to enrolled PACE participants, including history and physicals, ordering and interpreting labs and diagnostics, functional and mental status evaluations, and management of acute and chronic illness, medication adjustment, and specialist referral. The physician serves as a member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT), participating in initial, semi-annual, unscheduled, and annual assessments as well as daily morning updates, and acts as supervising physician for the site nurse practitioner and/or physician assistant.