Someone above mentioned “standard of care” and I think that is what I am trying to determine. Did the standard of care recently change, is this an office/company standard or a state requirement.
At the risk of being politically incorrect, the three older MDs have been fine with year long renewals, it’s the mid-levels who are asked, in between MDs coming and going in the practice, and usually it’s an NP who has never met my DH who says 6 months is standard of care. Does that mean MDs are less restricted or does that mean that older MDs (ages 50-70) are comfortable with an older standard, or is it that they have seen him and examined him so are therefore comfortable with his apparent good health. I can certainly understand being conservative when you’ve never met the patient, except there should be a decade of good notes attesting to the examining physician’s assessments.
As @2Devils said, there is a fine line to qualifying for a well check, and now that we are dealing with Medicare, an entirely new set of rules to learn.