What classifies as free preventive care?
The Insurance Office - Tom Saal
What classifies as free preventive care?
If your health insurance plan begins on or after 2010, your health insurance company must provide you with free preventive care. This means that, as long as you are within your provider network, you don’t have to pay your copayment, coinsurance, or even meet your deductible.
What is considered to be free preventive care varies for adults, woman (including pregnancy), and children. So, here is a list of every service covered within the differing groups.
Free Preventive Care for Adults
Screenings
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Alcohol misuse
- Blood pressure
- Cholesterol
- Colorectal Cancer
- Depression
- Type 2 Diabetes
- HIV
- Obesity
- Tobacco Use
- Syphilis
Counseling
- Alcohol misuse
- Diet
- Obesity
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
Medication
- Aspirin
Immunizations
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Herpes Zoster
- Human Papillomavirus
- Influenza (Flu shot)
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Meningococcal
- Pneumococcal
- Tetanus
- Diphtheria
- Pertussis
- Varicella
Free Preventive Care for Women (including pregnant women)
Screenings
- Anemia
- Bacteriuria
- Breast Cancer Mammography
- Cervical Cancer
- Chlamydia Infection
- Domestic and interpersonal violence
- Gestational diabetes
- Gonorrhea
- Hepatitis B
- HIV
- Osteoporosis
- Rh Incompatibility
- Tobacco Use
- Syphilis
- HPV DNA test
- Rh Incompatibility test
Counseling
- BRCA
- Breast Cancer Chemoprevention
- Breastfeeding
- Contraception
- Domestic and interpersonal violence
- HIV
- Tobacco Use
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
Medication
- Contraception
- Folic Acid supplements
Services
- Well-woman visits
Free Preventive Care for Children
Assessments
- Alcohol and Drug use
- Behavioral
- Oral Health risk
Screenings
- Autism
- Blood pressureCancer
- Cervical Dysplasia
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Depression
- Development
- Dyslipidemia
- Hearing
- Height, Weight and Body Mass Index
- Hematocrit or Hemoglobin
- Hemoglobinopathies or sickle cell
- HIV
- Lead
- Obesity
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
- Vision(STI)
Testing
- Tuberculin
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) prevention
Medications
- Flouride Chemoprevention supplements
- Gonorrhea preventive medication (newborns)
- Iron supplements
Immunizations
- Tetanus
- Diphtheria
- Pertussis
- Haemophilus influenza type b
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Human Papillomavirus
- Inactivated Poliovirus
- Influenza (Flu shot)
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Meningococcal
- Pneumococcal
- Rotarvirus
- Varicella
With access to free preventive care, you and your family could catch signs of health issues before they develop into something dangerous. Don’t delay. Give me a call today to purchase health insurance and gain free preventive care.
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