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Medicare covers three types of wellness visits that provide opportunities to promote patient health, disease screening and early detection, and advance care planning:
- Initial preventive physical exam, offered once per lifetime
- Initial annual wellness visit (AWV), offered once per lifetime
- Subsequent AWVs, offered annually.
Following are a few simple steps to help you reduce the number of denied claims and to gain efficiencies in the time and resources spent on delivering these visits:
- Check patient eligibility on myCGS. Billing the wrong visit or at the wrong time can result in a denied claim; checking myCGS can help avoid denied claims.
- Team up with clinical staff who can perform wellness visits. This brief training video is a step-by-step guide for clinical staff on how to perform these visits.
- Learn more about Medicare wellness visits. This printable flyer provides an outline of each visit, its requirements, and billing guidance.