ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2019
Association Of Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit With Cancer Screening, Referrals, Utilization, And Spending.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Delaying Screening Until Covered? Changes in Lung Cancer Screening at the Age of Nearly-Universal Medicare Insurance.Health services research · 2026Article
- Test Ordering and Completion During Virtual vs In-Person Annual Visits.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Federal Look-Alike Plan Termination Policy and Dual-Eligible Enrollment in Integrated Care Programs.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- Difference-in-Differences for Health Policy and Practice: A Review of Modern Methods.Statistics in medicine · 2025Review
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- Annual Wellness Visits and Early Dementia Diagnosis Among Medicare Beneficiaries.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Accountable Care Organization Leader Perspectives on the Medicare Shared Savings Program: A Qualitative Study.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- Variation in Receipt of Cancer Screening and Immunizations by 10-year Life Expectancy among U.S. Adults aged 65 or Older in 2019.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Dental Provider Density and Receipt of Dental Care Among Medicaid-enrolled Adults.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2024Article
- Differences in use of high- and low-value health care between immigrant and US-born adults.Health services research · 2023Article
- Adoption and Value of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: A Mixed-Methods Study.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2023Article
- Effects of Medicare eligibility and enrollment at age 65 years on the use of high-value and low-value care.Health services research · 2023Article
- Practice Billing for Medicare Advance Care Planning Across the USA.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of screening for geriatric conditions and advance care planning at the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit and diagnoses of dementias and cognitive impairment.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- The effect of direct cognitive assessment in the Medicare annual wellness visit on dementia diagnosis rates.Health services research · 2021Article
- Assessment of Prevalence and Cost of Care Cascades After Routine Testing During the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit.JAMA network open · 2020Observational
- Cognitive Assessment At Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit In Fee-For-Service And Medicare Advantage Plans.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2020Article
- A Qualitative Implementation Study to Improve Medicare Annual Wellness Visits.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFMArticle
- National Trends of Telehealth Use in Medicare Annual Wellness Visits.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFMArticle
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Abstract
Medicare's annual wellness visit was introduced in 2011 to promote evidence-based preventive care and identify risk factors and undiagnosed conditions in aging adults. Use of the visit has risen steadily since then, yet its benefits remain unclear. Using national Medicare data for 2008-15, we examined claims from fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries attributed to practices that did or did not adopt the visit. We performed difference-in-differences analysis to compare differential changes in appropriate and low-value cancer screening, functional and neuropsychiatric care, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and total spending. Examining 17.8 million beneficiary-years, we found modest differential improvements in rates of evidence-based screening and declines in emergency department visits. However, when we accounted for trends that predated the introduction of the visit, none of these benefits persisted. In sum, we found no substantive association between annual wellness visits and improvements in care.
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