Does Windsor Medicare Extra provide coverage for HIV screenings?
Yes. As of December 8, 2009, all Windsor Medicare Extra members are eligible to receive, at no cost, HIV rapid screening tests. Windsor Medicare Extra covers: 1. Annual voluntary HIV screening for members at increased risk for HIV infection, including: • Men and women having unprotected sex with multiple partners; • Persons being treated for sexually transmitted diseases; • Past or present injection drug users; • Men who have had sex with men after 1975; • Men and women who exchange sex for money or drugs, or have sex partners who do; • Individuals whose past or present sex partners were HIV-infected, bisexual or injection drug users; • Persons with a history of blood transfusion between 1978 and 1985; • Persons who request an HIV test despite reporting no individual risk factors, since this group is likely to include individuals not willing to disclose high-risk behaviors. 2. Voluntary HIV screening of pregnant Windsor members when the diagnosis of pregnancy is known, during the third
