PROs in Annual Wellness Visits
Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) enable patients and their doctors to update the patient’s story and clinical plan once a year. Patient-reported information includes a self assessment of:
Health status
Activities of daily living
Psychosocial characteristics, including self-reported mental health
Lifestyle choices that affect health
Cognition
AWVs foster a strong doctor-patient relationship and enable patients to provide input into the annual visit. They allow doctors to update patients’ health risks once a year. In addition to enhancing the information used for the medical plan, these updated health risks more accurately describe each patient’s risk for payer reimbursement programs.
A strong AWV completion rate provides a robust foundation for accountable care. Our implementation model, including pre-visit collection and close collaboration among all team members has resulted in an 80% AWV completion rate.