DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 4 (April)

Wellness visits can be performed by non-physician, billed by physician

Your physicians can bill Medicare for annual wellness visits (AWVs) that were performed by one or more non-physicians, such as nurse practitioners and registered nurses, so long as they provided direct supervision. Confusion arose over whether AWVs can be billed in this way, which gives you the full Medicare fee schedule payment; a nurse practitioner or other non-physician practitioner (NPP) billing under their own identifier would be paid at 85% of the fee schedule rate.

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