Preventive Care: CMS to Cover Annual Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Visit

Article Overview

This article explains a CMS preventive care coverage decision that adds a Medicare cardiovascular disease prevention visit and describes the broad components of the visit, the types of clinicians eligible to perform it, and CMS’s behavioral counseling framework. It is relevant to primary care practices, preventive medicine clinicians, and billing or compliance staff who need to understand what the new benefit covers at a high level and where CMS has limited its furnishing requirements.