Are Medicare Wellness Visits Worthwhile?

Medicare annual wellness visits made easier.

Medicare annual wellness visits: don't forget the health risk assessment.

Cindy Hughes, CPC F Practice Management (FPM) published several articles and an encounter form last year related to Medicare’s new annual wellness visit (AWV) benefit. Some physicians decided not to offer the AWV due to the complexity of the requirements, but many adapted to Medicare’s version of preventive care and provided these visits in 2011. Unfortunately, the requirements for 2012 have ch...

Answers to your questions about medicare annual wellness visits.

T expansion of Medicare preventive services coverage that took effect on Jan. 1 of this year provides a valuable opportunity for you and your patients to focus on preventive screening and wellness, particularly in the context of an annual wellness visit (AWV), the newest Medicare benefit. However, providing and billing for such visits is, of course, complicated. Our January/February issue cover...

Community-Based Wellness and Prevention Programs: The Role of Medicare

Community-based wellness and prevention programs have long served to address the needs of an aging population with multiple chronic diseases. Title IIID of the Older Americans Act, passed in 1987, called for the Administration on Aging (AoA) to fund “education and implementation activities that support healthy lifestyles and promote healthy behaviors (1).” AoA, now a part of the Administration ...

Are approximation algorithms for consensus clustering worthwhile?

Consensus clustering has emerged as one of the principal clustering problems in the data mining community. In recent years the theoretical computer science community has generated a number of approximation algorithms for consensus clustering and similar problems. These algorithms run in polynomial time, with performance guaranteed to be at most a certain factor worse than optimal. We investigat...