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Ensure AWV Coding Success With These Useful Pointers

Published on Tue Apr 28, 2015

Hint: Use appropriate modifiers when reporting other same day services. When your FP performs an annual wellness visit (AWV) for a Medicare patient, you will need to check on the patient’s date of enrollment with Medicare and whether or not the patient has had an AWV in the past to report the visit correctly. You should also be informed about [...]
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