Optimizing Medicare Annual Wellness Visits Through Quality Improvement: Leveraging Process, Continuity, and Combined Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine if combining Medicare annual wellness visits (AWVs) and problem-based visits with continuity clinicians could improve patient and clinician engagement and increase the percentage of AWVs completed and capture of quality measures.

Methods

A family medicine department utilized the quality improvement process to increase their percentage of AWVs by increasing the number of combined (ie, AWV and problem-based) visits through clinician education and targeted scheduling. De-identified data with the number of AWVs, eligible members, and clinicians were obtained from institutional data. Significant findings for trends, shifts, and data outside the normal limits were identified through Taylor's change point analysis. Differences in tests ordered pre- and post-imp

SUBMITTER: Wellman CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12459691 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature