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. 2017 Jun 6;317(21):2233-2235.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.4342.

Trends in Use of the US Medicare Annual Wellness Visit, 2011-2014

Ishani Ganguli  1 , Jeffrey Souza  1 , J Michael McWilliams  1 , Ateev Mehrotra  1
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Trends in Use of the US Medicare Annual Wellness Visit, 2011-2014

Ishani Ganguli et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study uses Medicare claims data to describe the use of annual wellness visits among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States from 2011 through 2014.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported.

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Figure.. Percentage of Medicare Beneficiaries Who Had an Annual Wellness Visit in 2014 Among 306 Hospital Referral Regions
Each dot represents 1 hospital referral region. Annual wellness visit rates were rounded to whole percentages to facilitate presentation.
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