E/M Coding Alert - 2011 Issue 40
Check Out CMS's Definition of 'HRA'
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Article Overview
This article summarizes CMS guidance on what constitutes a health risk assessment and why practices may need to create their own tools for annual wellness visits. It is aimed at coding, compliance, and practice staff who need a high-level understanding of the required content areas, patient administration considerations, and the CMS source context behind the definition.
Why This Topic Matters
Practices that design or review annual wellness visit workflows need to understand CMS’s baseline expectations for an HRA so their forms and intake processes align with current guidance.
What You Will Learn
- What CMS means by a health risk assessment in the annual wellness visit context
- The broad categories of information an HRA should cover
- Patient administration and accessibility considerations for HRA tools
- How CMS source guidance is used to frame practice-created HRA forms
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Compliance staff
- Practice managers
- Quality improvement staff
- Primary care billing staff
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