Preventive Services
Published 8/16/2008
Medicare covers many preventive and screening services at no cost to you (waived deductible and coinsurance/copayment) if your doctor accepts assignment, including the following:
- Your first "Welcome to Medicare" visit, also known as the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE)
- Annual Wellness Visit
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening
- Colorectal Cancer Screening (Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT), flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy)
- Bone Mass Measurement
- Cardiovascular Disease Screening
- Diabetes Screening Tests
- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Vaccination
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Screening
- Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Pneumococcal Vaccination
- Prostate Cancer Screening – Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test
- Screening Mammogram
- Screening Pap Test
- Screening Pelvic Exam (including a clinical breast examination)
- Seasonal Influenza Virus Vaccination
- Smoking and Tobacco-Use Cessation Counseling Services and Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use (for symptomatic beneficiaries)
- Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
- Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for Obesity
- Screening for Depression
- Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care to Reduce Alcohol Misuse
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Screening and High Intensity Behavioral Counseling (HIBC) to Prevent STIs
- Hepatitis C Screening Test
- Lung Cancer Screening
For some preventive services, coinsurance or copayment and the Medicare Part B deductible apply:
- Diabetes Self-Management Training
- Glaucoma Screening
- Prostate Cancer Screening – Digital Rectal Examination
For Colorectal Cancer Screening (Barium Enema), the coinsurance or copayment applies, and the Medicare Part B deductible is waived.
View a list of Medicare’s covered preventive services to see more information on Medicare covered preventive services including who is covered and how often the services are covered.