DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 11 (November)

End-of-life planning added to annual wellness visits in final rule

Your practice can still tap into a major source of new revenue in 2011 via Medicare's new annual wellness visits, but your physicians must now offer to provide end-of-life planning as part of the service, according to the 2011 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule. To be clear: This new component, dubbed "voluntary advance care planning" in the final rule, is voluntary in that patients may refuse to have it included in their annual wellness visit (AWV).

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