Annual Medicare Wellness Visits
Schedule yours now by calling 304.630.3037.
An appointment with our Annual Wellness Nurse gives you an in-depth look into your health, we’ll review all covered Medicare screenings, coordinate wellness and disease prevention care ensuring Better Health for you.
What you should know about you Annual Wellness Visit...
- It’s FREE - Annual Medicare Wellness Visit cost you nothing! If your Primary Care Physician is a Davis Medical Center provider this appointment is covered by Medicare Part B. No deductible or copay is required for the visit if you have not had one in the last calendar year.
- Makes you eligible for other FREE services - Not only is the initial exam free, but while you’re there, you can get other free services completed or scheduled, like a free mammogram, free prostate and colorectal cancer screening, free bone density screening, and free flu and pneumococcal vaccines! Here's a link to the complete list of tests - http://www.medicare.gov/coverage/preventive-and-screening-services.html
- Establish a primary care provider - Establishing a primary care provider is the first step to getting quality, consistent care, and completing the Annual Medicare Wellness Visit is the BEST way to do this. It brings all your medical records together to one centralized place. When your provider knows your medical history, it prevents duplicate testing and helps them recommend the right specialists, which reduces your expenses!
- They give you a personalized prevention plan - Another benefit to the Annual Medicare Wellness Visit is a personalized prevention plan! This is a guide our Annual Wellness Nurse creates with easy, everyday suggestions to help you improve your health. This keeps you healthy, improves your longevity and saves you money by preventing diseases down the road!
Our Annual Wellness Nurse works with you and your provider closely to help develop or update a personalized prevention health plan. It is designed to help prevent disease and disability based on your current health and risk factors.