Hepatitis C Virus infection screenings

Medicare covers one Hepatitis C screening if your primary care doctor or other qualified health care provider orders one and you meet one of these conditions:

• You’re at high risk because you use or have used illicit injection drugs.
• You had a blood transfusion before 1992.
• You were born between 1945-1965.

If you were born between 1945-1965 and aren’t considered high risk, Medicare pays for a screening once. If you’re at high risk (for example, you’ve continued to use illicit injection drugs since your previous negative Hepatitis C screening test), Medicare covers yearly screenings.