05/04/2023

Medicare Annual Visits: How to make them work in your office

Gain Efficiencies Delivering Medicare Annual Wellness Visits in Your Practice

Medicare annual wellness visits provide an important opportunity to promote health and to provide disease screening and advance care planning with patients who have Medicare. However, billing for the wrong visit or at the wrong time can result in denied claims.

Several resources are available to help you avoid claim denials and gain efficiencies in time and resources spent on providing these visits:

• Watch this brief video to learn about the components of each visit, when to provide each visit, and how to submit claims for them.
  
  
• Check out this printable flyer, which can be a helpful tool for discussing these visits with patients.
  
  
• Take this online education course. This is a great tool for newer staff or those who can benefit from a refresher on AWV services.