Preventive Services

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.