Hepatitis C virus infection screenings
Medicare covers a Hepatitis C screening if your primary care doctor or other health care provider orders one, and you meet at least 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.
Medicare pays for this screening:
- Once, if you're at high risk because:
- You had a blood transfusion before 1992.
- You used illicit injections drugs in the past.
- Once, if you were born between 1945-1965 and aren't considered high risk.
- Yearly, if you're at high risk because you've continued to use illicit injection drugs since your previous negative Hepatitis C screening test.
Your costs in Original Medicare
You pay nothing if your health care provider accepts .