Independent Agent & Medicare Supplement Specialist, reMEDIGAP, USA
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, your “Wellness” visit should occur if you’ve had Part B for longer than 12 months. Prior to this visit, you would of had a “Welcome to Medicare” preventive visit during your first 12 months on Medicare.
The “Wellness” visit is completed annually. The provider is supposed to ask you to complete a brief questionnaire, called a Health Risk Assessment to help develop a personalized prevention plan. Medicare covers many preventative services and it is during this “Wellness” visit that you can discuss which ones are right for you.
If the doctor accepts Medicare assignment, you pay nothing for the yearly “Wellness” visit. If additional tests or services are completed during the same visit that are not covered under this benefit, it is possible that you will be responsible for paying co-insurance and the Part B deductible.
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The “Wellness” visit is completed annually. The provider is supposed to ask you to complete a brief questionnaire, called a Health Risk Assessment to help develop a personalized prevention plan. Medicare covers many preventative services and it is during this “Wellness” visit that you can discuss which ones are right for you.
If the doctor accepts Medicare assignment, you pay nothing for the yearly “Wellness” visit. If additional tests or services are completed during the same visit that are not covered under this benefit, it is possible that you will be responsible for paying co-insurance and the Part B deductible.
Thank you for reading my response. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.