Preventive & screening services
Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers preventive and screening services
Description
Preventive services help you stay healthy, detect health problems early, determine the most effective treatments, and prevent certain diseases. Preventive services include exams, shots, lab tests, and screenings. They also include programs for health monitoring, and counseling and education to help you take care of your own health. You can log in to your secure Medicare account to check your preventive services.
Coverage details
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screenings
- Alcohol misuse screenings & counseling
- Bone mass measurements
- Cardiovascular disease screenings
- Cardiovascular disease (behavioral therapy)
- Cervical & vaginal cancer screenings
- Colorectal cancer screenings
- Counseling to prevent tobacco use & tobacco-caused disease
- Depression screenings
- Diabetes screenings
- Diabetes self-management training
- Glaucoma screenings
- Hepatitis B shots
- Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection screenings
- Hepatitis C virus screenings
- HIV screenings
- Lung cancer screenings
- Mammograms (screening)
- Medical nutrition therapy services
- Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program
- Obesity behavioral therapy
- One-time “Welcome to Medicare” preventive visit
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention
- Prostate cancer screenings
- Sexually transmitted infections screenings & counseling
- Shots:
- Yearly "Wellness" visit
Costs
You pay nothing for most preventive services if you get the services from a health care provider who accepts
assignment
.