DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 7 (July)

Use AWVs as springboard for 5 other Medicare preventive screenings

If you aren’t scheduling annual wellness visits (AWVs) for your Medicare patients, you’re not only missing out on revenue for those visits but also losing a perfect opportunity to schedule future visits for five reimbursable preventive services.

The questions physicians or non-physician practitioners (NPPs) ask during AWVs inform them which patients are applicable for screenings at separate visits. That makes it simple to schedule the screenings for multiple patients.

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