Interestingly, in the last CMS Office Hours (June 30), it was said that they believed that AWV could not be coded if the patient did not have the monitors to check their vitals (BP cuff, scale, etc) and if that is the case, the AWV could not be billed. But they are looking into it and would get back to it.
And then today, July 1st, during a webinar by NGS (MAC), they said that if the patient cannot relate their vitals, the provider just has to document why the vitals cannot be captured in the note and then the AWV can be code and be billed. However, they said, given what they heard on the CMS Office Hours call on Tuesday, this rule may be rescinded if CMS comes back at a later date, and says that the AWV cannot be billed and coded definitively when there are no vitals captured.