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Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

Boulder Medical Center

Unlike a routine physical or sick visit, the AWV focuses on health risk assessment, screening, and prevention—not diagnosing or treating new or existing conditions. A Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is a once-per-year appointment covered by Medicare Part B. The post Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

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Welcome to Medicare Preventive Visit: What Is It?

Boulder Medical Center

The "Welcome to Medicare" visit is not a physical exam. The “Welcome to Medicare” preventive visit is covered by Medicare Part B if completed within the first 12 months of coverage. The post Welcome to Medicare Preventive Visit: What Is It? appeared first on Boulder Medical Center.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

These baseline measurements help track important health indicators over time and identify potential concerns before they become serious. Age-appropriate physical examination that typically covers heart, lung, abdominal, skin, neurological, and musculoskeletal assessments.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. Alex 15:37 Yeah. generation.