What is Medicare part B?

1. What is Medicare part B? Source- http://healthfirstmagazine.blogspot.co.id/2017/06/what-is-medicare-part-b.html

2. Let’s find out what is covered under Medicare Part B? • Doctor's visits (including an annual physical exam) • Laboratory services including - blood tests, urinalysis, etc. • Medical health care as an outpatient • Some preventive care, like flu and pneumonia shots

3. Outpatient health check services • X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, EKGs, and some other diagnostic tests • Prescription drugs, like chemotherapy drugs • Emergency room services

4. What's not covered under Medicare Part B? • Dental, vision or hearing care but in very rare conditions. • Care received outside the USA except in very specific situations. • Custodial care - helping with eating, bathing or dressing.

5. What doctors or health professionals can you see? You can see any qualified provider in the US who accepts Medicare assignment and who accepts new patients.

6. Medicare Part B covers these preventive services: • Bone mass measurement (bone density) • Alcohol misuse counseling • Cervical and vaginal cancer screening • Lung cancer screening

7. Diabetes self-management training • Breast cancer screening (mammogram) • Cardiovascular disease (behavioral therapy) • Flu shot

8. Tobacco use cessation counseling • Diabetes screening • Colorectal cancer screening • Hepatitis B shot

9. Glaucoma test • Prostate cancer screening • Depression screening • Cardiovascular screening etc.

10. This article is originally appeared on- http://healthfirstmagazine.blogspot.co.id/2017/06/what-is-medicare-part-b.html