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Health care services or supplies needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms and that meet accepted standards of medicine.

clinical diagnostic laboratory tests when your Medicare-enrolled doctor or provider orders them.

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You usually pay nothing for Medicare-approved clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.

What it is

Laboratory tests include certain blood tests, urinalysis, tests on tissue specimens, and some screening tests.

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