Bill,
I should clarify what I wrote before. Often I will see fairly complex medicare patients only once yearly, and when I do I combine an Medicare Annual Wellness Visit with a 99213, most of the time and rarely a 99214. What I see happening is that I will likely see an increase in revenue because of the following...
99212--45$
99213--76$
99214--109$
99215--148$
the new proposed 99212-99215 reimbursement will be 93$
My rationale for my thought is that since I already do a lot more 99213 with the MAW, very few 99214 and no 99215, I will likely get almost an additional 20$ per visit with this change in reimbursent.
Also, the documentation should be easier to fulfill, as I understand it, the new "combined" documentation requirement will be at the 99212 level.
