More plans are also limiting the amount they will pay for an office visit.

Without such coverage, parents must pay for standard office visits, which often cost more than $100.

Be sure to find out what you should bring to the appointment before your office visit.

For one thing, house calls are more expensive than office visits.

His fee for an office visit or a house call was 7 cents.

"And, of course, $200 these days is practically an office visit."

He had stopped seeing his doctor, "because I owe him for the last office visit."

The effect shows up in the way doctors deal with office visits, for example.

Only doctors get paid on the day of an office visit.

And the doctors don't like the idea that the number of office visits might fall.