IMPLEMENTING A NURSE RUN ANNUAL WELLNESS VISIT Article Swipe
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· 2018
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igy023.112
· OA: W2899545889
The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a free service offered to Medicare Part B beneficiaries annually to promote preventive care and reduce unnecessary utilization of health care services. The Centers for Medicare Services allows registered nurses to conduct the AWV and generate similar revenue to when a physician conducts the visit. Through the Northern New England Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), we engaged twelve practices to implement the AWV as a nurse run visit. By implementing the nurse run AWV, a practice could increase utilization of AWV, increase employee and patient satisfaction, and increase revenue. One site was able to increase billing (non-facility price) by 212% and Relative Value Units (RVU) by 190% by implementing the Nurse Run AWV.
