Fisher-Titus Reminds Medicare Patients to Schedule Annual Wellness Visits

Fisher-Titus wants to remind their patients with Medicare coverage to schedule their Annual Wellness Visit before the end of the year. Patients may receive a text message reminding them to schedule their visit with a link to make that appointment online.

The Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a yearly appointment with a representative of your primary care provider (PCP) to create or update your personalized prevention plan that will help you prevent illness based on your current health and risk factors.

Medicare Part B covers the Annual Wellness Visit if:

• You have had Part B for over 12 months
• And, you have not received an AWV in the past 12 months

You cannot receive your AWV within the same year as your Welcome to Medicare preventive visit.

During your AWV, you and your provider will:

• Complete the health risk assessment (HRA), capturing demographic data, self-assessment of health status, psychosocial risks, behavioral risks, activities of daily living, and more.
• Establish a family and medical history including medical events of your parents, siblings, and children; your past medical/surgical history; a list of all current medications and supplements from all your providers; and more.
• Create a list of current providers/suppliers that regularly provide medical care for you.
• Take measurements including height, weight, BMI or waist circumference, blood pressure, and more.
• Complete cognitive, depression, and everyday living and safety assessments.
• Create a preventive screening and immunization schedule/checklist for the next 5-10 years.
• Create a list of your risk factors and conditions with an intervention plan.
• Go through your personalized health advice and appropriate referrals including fall prevention, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco cessation, weight loss, cognition, and more.
• Go over advanced care planning including future care decisions, informing others about care preferences, caregiver identification, and explanations of advance care directives.

If you are a current Fisher-Titus patient, you can schedule your AWV online at fishertitus.org/schedule. You can also call (419) 660-2900 to schedule your appointment. If you do not have a primary care provider, visit fishertitus.org/find-a-doctor to find a provider at one of our five primary care locations.