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  1. 3. A routine ___ exam (eye refraction) to determine the need for eyeglasses/contacts, once per calendar year. Original Medicare doesn’t cover this visit.
  2. 4. screening and therapy to promote sustained weight loss. If you have a body mass index of 30 or more, we cover intensive counseling to help you lose weight. This counseling is covered if you get it in a primary care setting, where it can be coordinated with your comprehensive prevention plan.
  3. 8. Screening ___________ – Colorectal cancer screening that is covered every 10 years, or every 2 years for people at high risk of colorectal cancer.
  4. 9. Mass Measurement – for people at risk of osteoporosis or of losing bone mass, procedures to identify bone mass, detect bone loss, or determine bone quality, are covered.
  5. 10. Medicare’s ________ Visit – a yearly visit with your provider or his/her staff to develop or update a personalized prevention help plan to prevent disease based in your heath and risk factors.
  6. 13. – covered services include Pneumonia vaccine, flu shots, and the Hepatitis B vaccine.
  7. 14. cancer screening exams for men age 50 and older include a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test and a digital rectal exam
  8. 16. Screening for ____ cancer with low dose computed tomography (LDCT) for people aged 55 – 77 years who have no signs or symptoms of lung cancer, but who have a history of tobacco smoking of at least 30 pack-years or who currently smoke or have quit smoking within the last 15 years.
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  1. 1. For people with diabetes, screening for ________ retinopathy is covered once per year.
  2. 2. and vaginal cancer screening – covered include pap tests and pelvic exams every 24 months for all women.
  3. 5. Exam Annual Routine ____________ – a yearly visit with your provider. In this visit, your provider evaluates your body and its functions using inspection, palpation (feeling with the hands), percussion (tapping with the fingers), and auscultation (listening).
  4. 6. Screening _________ – Breast cancer screening that is covered every calendar year for women age 40 and older.
  5. 7. Annual _____________ exam – our name for the visit members get when they schedule their Annual Routine Physical Exam and their Medicare Wellness Visit back-to-back on the same day.
  6. 11. – a yearly “fecal immunochemical test” is an alternative to a screening colonoscopy.
  7. 12. screening – we cover this screening if you have a history of high blood sugar, high blood pressure, a history of abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels, or a family history of diabetes.
  8. 15. use cessation – if you use tobacco, but do not have signs or symptoms of tobacco-related disease, we cover two counseling quit attempts.