Colonoscopies (screening)
Medicare cubre las evaluaciones de colonoscopia una vez cada 24 meses si usted tiene alto riesgo de cáncer colorrectal. Si no tiene un alto riesgo, Medicare cubre la prueba una vez cada 120 meses o 48 meses después de una sigmoidoscopia flexible previa. No hay ningún requisito de edad mínima.
If you initially have a Medicare-covered, non-invasive stool-based colorectal cancer screening test (fecal occult blood tests or multi-target stool DNA test), or a blood-based biomarker screening test and get a positive result, Medicare also covers a follow-up colonoscopy as a screening test.
Sus gastos en Medicare Original
- If your health care provider accepts assignment , you pay nothing for the screening test(s), including follow-up colonoscopies you get after a positive result from a Medicare-covered blood-based biomarker test or non-invasive stool-based test.
- If your health care provider finds and removes a polyp or other tissue during the colonoscopy, you pay 15% of the Medicare-approved amount for your provider's services. In a hospital outpatient setting or ambulatory surgical center, you also pay the facility a 15% coinsurance . The Part B deductible doesn't apply.
¿Qué es?
Colonoscopy screening tests check for precancerous polyps (growths in the colon), cancer, and other diseases inside the rectum and colon.