Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
We Want Your AWV Feedback!
Published on Tue May 10, 2011 
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Have you developed an amazing annual wellness visit checklist? Did you create a quick and easy way to remember which diagnosis codes to report with your AWVs? Have your secondary payers balked at your AWV claims? We'd like to hear about your experiences with annual wellness visit codes G0438 and G0439-- good or bad--and if you send them along, we'll reward you with a FREE month added to your Part B Insider subscription! We'll be sharing some of the feedback in an upcoming issue of the Insider, so if you'd like to participate--and extend your subscription for a month--please send your AWV feedback to editor Torrey Kim, CPC, CGSC, at torreyk@codinginstitute.com.
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