Preventative check-ups and screenings can help find illnesses and medical problems early and improve your health and the health of everyone in your family.
District health plans cover health screenings and services provided by in-network doctors with no out-of-pocket costs like copays or coinsurance, even if you haven’t met your deductible.
Preventive care can include annual general wellness exams and diabetes, cancer, and depression screenings.
Blue Cross Blue Shield members aged 18 and over can access preventive services at no cost when visiting a doctor in your plan’s provider network.
Screenings:
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Alcohol abuse and tobacco use
- Anxiety
- Breast cancer screening, breast cancer prevention medication, generic testing and counseling.
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) including cholesterol screening and statin use for the prevention of CVD.
- Certain contraceptives and medical devices, morning after pill, and sterilization to prevent pregnancy.
- Cervical cancer screening
- Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis B screenings
- Colorectal and lung cancer
- Depression
- Falls prevention
- High blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test
- Osteoporosis screening
PrEP medication for the prevention of HIV, HPV and hepatitis
Tuberculosis
Counseling:
- Alcohol misuse
- Domestic violence
- Drug misuse
- Healthy diet and physical activity counseling for adults who are overweight or obese and have additional cardiovascular disease risk factors
- Obesity
- Sexulaty transmitted infections
- Skin cancer prevention
- Tobacco use, including certain medications to stop
- Urinary incontinence screening
- Use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks