Averel B. Snyder, MD

The time for PCPs to focus on improving documentation, coding, and value-based care initiatives is now.

For Medicare to survive and to decrease healthcare costs in this country, healthcare delivery needs to change.

Despite many advantages, the AWV is a free service that virtually no one knows about. Don't miss out on clear benefits to patients and your practice.

The AWV not only provides evidence-based preventative services and care coordination, but also identifies high-risk over-utilizers of healthcare.

The Medicare Annual Wellness visit can decrease utilization of unnecessary healthcare services. Here's how.

Here are four top barriers physicians face when considering the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit for their patients and how to overcome them for better outcomes.

Physicians need to realize the benefits of Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and put a plan for the service in place to benefit their patients and their practice.

The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is one of the best ways to capture real-time clinical data and thus, assist at-risk health populations.

Primary-care and annual wellness visits are essential to the future of healthcare quality and decreased costs, and third-party providers shouldn't disrupt that.

Medicare's Annual Wellness Visits are a critical element for primary-care physicians to document ICD-9 codes on their Medicare Advantage patients.

It's time for complete cooperation between vendors of hardware and software solutions to increase interoperability with EHRs sooner than later.

Looming annual threats to Medicare payments are exhausting, but the Affordable Care Act creates a paradigm shift for physicians who embrace the federal program.

With 10,000 new 65-year-old patients each day, it's important that physicians act now to keep them healthy by improving preventative care.

There are two main obstacles to seniors taking advantage of preventative services and the solution lies with physicians.