Medicare’s Annual Wellness Exam: How to Get Paid

Aug 1, 2011

Here's a quick video to get you started with conducting Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit at your medical practice.

Have you heard about the new annual ‘’wellness exams” that Medicare began covering this year as part of healthcare reform? You certainly would not be alone in wondering what the rules are scheduling and conducting these exams, which are separate from, but related to, Medicare’s Welcome-to-Medicare exam, as well as how to code for them and how much in payment you can expect.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the new exams, and so we developed this brief video to help answer some of the most common. Check it out.

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