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tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 7
Annual Wellness Visits: CMS Begins Recouping Overpayments Made for AWVs
When both the facility and the doctor bill for the same service, Medicare ends up double-paying.
You may have been overpaid for annual wellness visits without even knowing it, but your MAC could come calling for a refund soon, if a recent CMS Transmittal is any indication.
When CMS established the annual wellness visit (AWV) codes G0438 and G0439, the agency noted that it would accept claims from facilities furnishing the service, or from physicians performing it. Unfortunately, however, that information was misinterpreted by some providers, so when AWVs were performed by physicians in the facility setting, both the...
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