Annual Wellness Visits that find and close care gaps
Growmore MSO runs the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit program for primary-care practices. We reach your patients, complete the health-risk screening by phone, and hand your provider a prepared report — so the visit itself is short, well documented, and focused on what each patient needs.
What is the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit?
The Annual Wellness Visit is a yearly Medicare preventive visit. It is not a routine physical exam. It is a planning visit: the provider and care team review the patient's health risks and build or update a personal prevention plan.
Medicare Part B covers one wellness visit every 12 months, once a patient has had Part B for more than a year and has not had a “Welcome to Medicare” visit or a wellness visit in the past 12 months. Under Original Medicare, when the provider accepts assignment, the patient pays nothing for the visit itself and the Part B deductible does not apply. Medicare Advantage plans cover the visit too, under each plan's own rules. Other services provided the same day may carry their usual cost.
Many eligible patients never have one, usually because nobody had the time to call them and prepare. That is the part we do.
What the visit covers
- A health risk assessment — questions about health, habits and daily living
- Medical and family history, current medications and other providers
- Height, weight, blood pressure and other routine measurements
- A check for memory or thinking problems, and for depression risk
- Day-to-day function and safety, including the risk of falls
- A written schedule of the screenings and vaccines the patient needs
- Advance care planning, if the patient wants to talk about it
Why it matters for quality measures
Health plans and Medicare score practices on quality: screenings completed, risks addressed, medications reviewed, and how patients experience their care. Many of those measures come down to questions a wellness visit already asks. A well-run wellness visit is one of the most dependable ways to find open care gaps and to document that they were addressed.
How Growmore helps close the gaps
- Every open gap found on the screening call is listed first on the provider report, with a recommended action.
- The report carries the quality-documentation prompts and the wellness-visit code from the eligibility check, so nothing is left to memory at the visit.
- We follow the referrals the provider orders — imaging, labs, equipment, home health, specialists — until each one is completed or closed.
- Each patient gets a plain-language report and a five-year prevention plan to take home.
The provider stays in charge. Growmore prepares, documents and follows up. Your provider decides what to order, completes the visit with the patient, and signs. Your practice bills for the visit.
The portal identifies each patient by a study code. Full names and dates of birth are not stored here.
How it works
Working from your patient list, we confirm which Medicare patients are due for a wellness visit.
A Growmore coordinator reaches each patient by phone and completes the full health-risk assessment and medication review.
A provider report with findings and recommended actions, and a patient report with a five-year prevention plan.
The provider sees the patient — in person, or by video visit where Medicare allows it — reviews the report and signs. Your practice bills Medicare or the patient's plan, and we keep tracking the follow-ups.
Review and accept reports, update where each visit stands, print reports in batches, see estimated wellness-visit revenue, and message our coordinators — in one place, for the provider and the office staff.
Contact Growmore MSO
Houston, TX 77098
Please do not send patient information by e-mail or text. Patients with a question about their wellness visit should call their doctor's office.