Disparities in Medicare Annual Wellness Visits After a Systemwide Quality Improvement Initiative: A Serial Cross-sectional Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) offer potential benefits for older adults. Little is known about recent racial/ethnic disparities in populations with high AWV completion.

Objective

To calculate racial/ethnic disparities before and after a health system initiative to increase AWV completion, and investigate factors associated with post-initiative AWV completion.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional evaluation over 3 years, ending August 2023.

Patients

Medicare beneficiaries age ≥ 65 in a large Midwestern U.S. health system. Race/ethnicity was categorized as White non-Hispanic, Black/African American non-Hispanic, Latino/Hispanic, Asian non-Hispanic, and Other non-Hispanic.

Main measures

Annual AWV completion during the pre-initiative year (ye

SUBMITTER: Liss DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612292 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature