DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 4 (April)

Depression screenings: minimal extra work for new preventive service

Don’t be quick to overlook Medicare’s new annual depression screenings because of the low RVU (0.51, $17.36). The preventive service is intended to take only 15 minutes and can be incorporated into your existing workflow with little effort.

“[CMS] is willing to throw a couple extra bucks to physicians and saying, ‘Not that you’re not already doing this, but we’re going to give you a little extra money if you do it in a formal way,’” says Joan Gilhooly, CPC, president of Medical Business Resources in Lorain, Ohio.

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