Medicare now covers diagnostic screens - Old Anon. SM

Posted: Nov 23rd, 2020 - 3:42 am In Reply to: Insurance - Kiwi

Starting in 2021, my Advantage Plan covers not only screening colonoscopies but also diagnostic colonoscopies. If you have Medicare, you might want to check that. I'm pretty sure it's all Medicare plans. Having the Cologuard come back positive is pretty much the same thing as having stool cards come back positive, and I think they've finally realized that fact. I'm wondering if someone, or more than one person, challenged the medical establishment on that and got the rules changed.

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Positive Cologuard test... - Kiwi (Views: 506, 2020-09-04, 10:00 am)
- Me too. - moi (Views: 402, 2020-09-04, 10:18 am)
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