Annual Wellness Visits & Preventive Screening Schedule

Needs Statement

Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) provide a key opportunity for providers to identify high-risk patients and develop personalized illness prevention plans, including access to immunizations, medication review and advanced care planning. AWVs are provided to Medicare Beneficiaries at no cost, which removes barriers to prevention, helps Medicare Beneficiaries take charge of their own health, and helps providers better prevent illness, detect problems early when treatment works best, and monitor health conditions. AWVs exhibit improved outcomes, provide measurable quality improvement, and reduce overall cost of care. Learn more about requirements for the annual wellness visit and how a team based approach may be utilized to reduce the documentation burden on the Provider.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of the activity, the participants should be able to:

• Utilize available tools and resources including EHR templates and AWV nurses to capture all required documentation components.
• Recognize how an AWV can be used as a means to identify quality improvement opportunities and capture quality metrics such immunizations, depression screening, fall risk, and other screenings.
• Identify which annual wellness visit components can be completed by clinical staff (MA, RN, LVN, etc) and which components need to be completed by a provider.

Target Audience

Activity Evaluation

Evaluation by questionnaire will address program content, presentation, and possible bias.

Educational Methods

• Lectures

Accreditation/Credit Designation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Health Network CIN. Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baylor College of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Term of Approval

April 1, 2025 through April 30, 2027. Original release date: April 1, 2025.

Disclosure Policy

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. BCM is committed to sponsoring CE activities that are scientifically based, accurate, current, and objectively presented.

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, BCM has implemented a mechanism requiring everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity (i.e., directors, planning committee members, faculty) to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests (drug/device companies) and manage/resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. Individuals must disclose to participants the existence or non-existence of financial relationships at the time of the activity or within 24 months prior.

In addition, BCM has requested activity faculty/presenters to disclose to participants any unlabeled use or investigational use of pharmaceutical/device products; to use scientific or generic names (not trade names) in referring to products; and, if necessary to use a trade name, to use the names of similar products or those within a class. Faculty/presenters have also been requested to adhere to the ACCME's validation of clinical content statements.

BCM does not view the existence of financial relationships with commercial interests as implying bias or decreasing the value of a presentation. It is up to participants to determine whether the relationships influence the activity faculty with regard to exposition or conclusions. If at any time during this activity you feel that there has been commercial/promotional bias, notify the Activity Director or Activity Coordinator. Please answer the questions about balance and objectivity in the activity evaluation candidly.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.