What are the preventive care guidelines?
The guidelines list the types of care screenings and exams needed for your particular age and gender. • For infants and young children, the guidelines focus on physical and mental development, immunizations, nutrition, and safety. • For children and young adults, the focus is on maintaining or developing healthy lifestyle habits and eliminating high-risk behaviors. • For adults, the focus continues to be on eliminating high-risk behaviors, however, screening for chronic and/or life-threatening disease becomes more important. Does my health insurance cover these preventive care exams? The health care reform Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that plans begin providing benefits for preventive services with no member cost share, such as copayments, deductibles, and coinsurance, when services are performed by in-network providers. However, some plans are not required to comply with this mandate. If your contract is affected by this change, Wellmark will provide first-dollar coverage for co
