Improving coding processes to achieve value-based care success
The time for PCPs to focus on improving documentation, coding, and value-based care initiatives is now.
Physicians Dropped by Health Plans for Overutilization
For Medicare to survive and to decrease healthcare costs in this country, healthcare delivery needs to change.
Annual Wellness Visit Hidden Opportunity for Practices, Patients
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 Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: A Key to Better Patient Care
The AWV not only provides evidence-based preventative services and care coordination, but also identifies high-risk over-utilizers of healthcare.
Medicare Annual Wellness Visits Decrease Healthcare Costs
The Medicare Annual Wellness visit can decrease utilization of unnecessary healthcare services. Here's how.
Addressing Barriers to Delivering the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit
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.
Seven Reasons Why the Medicare AWV is Good for Physicians and Patients
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.
An Analytical Approach to Improve Healthcare
The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is one of the best ways to capture real-time clinical data and thus, assist at-risk health populations.
Health Risk Assessments Should Be Done by Primary Care Providers
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 Advantage Revenue and Your Medical Practice
Medicare's Annual Wellness Visits are a critical element for primary-care physicians to document ICD-9 codes on their Medicare Advantage patients.
Lack of EHR Interoperability a Barrier to Innovation, Quality Care
It's time for complete cooperation between vendors of hardware and software solutions to increase interoperability with EHRs sooner than later.
Physicians Should Embrace, Not Abandon, Medicare Patients
Looming annual threats to Medicare payments are exhausting, but the Affordable Care Act creates a paradigm shift for physicians who embrace the federal program.
Preventive Care Critical With Aging U.S. Patient Population
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.
The Medicare AWV: Protecting Patients' Wallets and Health
There are two main obstacles to seniors taking advantage of preventative services and the solution lies with physicians.