DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 11 (November)

NPP Report: Wellness visits seen as ‘patient data and education visit,’ NPPs have major role

Your peers increasingly think of Medicare’s annual wellness visit (AWV) as a patient data-gathering and education visit, especially with the new health risk assessment (HRA) requirement. Because no physical exam is required and much of the AWV is collecting patient health information, your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) play a bigger role than physicians.

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