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Annual Wellness Visits: Understanding the Value They Bring

Performing Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) provide a unique value that benefit your healthcare organization, providers and more importantly, your patients. AWVs aligns with population health management, and can identify any needs for additional patient services, including labs, imaging, procedures, and follow-up visits.

Benefits of AWVs

Annual Wellness Visits also improve quality impact and acuity scores, the patient’s loyalty to the provider and hospital system, the patient’s safety, and it reduces their health risks. AWVs can be performed virtually and have very good wRVUs for the providers. The financial values include being reimbursed $172 for initial AWVs, $130 for subsequent AWVs, and Rural Health Clinics have higher reimbursements. The benefits of performing AWVs include physician and staff alignment, improve workflows, increase patient screenings, and increase revenue.

Contact Blue about AWVs

If you would like to learn more about Medicare Annual Wellness Visits, and how your organization can optimize them, please reach out to your local Blue & Co. advisor, or one of our AWV experts: Brandon Bond or John Wortley.

Brandon Bond, Senior Consultant
317-275-7427

John Wortley, Senior Manager
502-992-2563

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