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Documented follow-up to memory concerns reported at the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit
Aleksandra Wec1, Mingche Wu2, Danny Scerpella2
1Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Introduction:
The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) may improve timely detection of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), yet little is known about the frequency of follow-up on patient-reported memory concerns during the AWV.
Methods:
We use electronic medical record (EMR) data from an academic health system to examine EMR-documented follow-up actions for patients with newly reported memory concerns on the AWV health risk assessment, including formal cognitive assessment or specialist referrals.
Results:
The 1411 patients with newly reported memory concerns were predominantly white (70%) and female (63%), with an average age of 78 (SD 7.5). At the AWV, few patients received a cognitive assessment (5.4%; n = 76), specialist referral (2.1%; n = 30), or both (0.4%; n = 6). In adjusted analyses, we did not observe statistically significant differences by sociodemographic characteristics.
Discussion:
This EMR-based study highlights an opportunity to better leverage the AWV to improve ADRD detection and care.
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