DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2014 Issue 1 (January)

Check documentation to make sure Medicare AWVs aren’t physicals in disguise

One way to know you have compliance problem is if your providers are billing Medicare for initial or subsequent annual wellness visits (AWVs) but the documentation you see closely resembles that of a preventive physical exam. Those claims won’t stand up to auditor scrutiny, experts tell Part B News.

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