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

assignment

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Hepatitis C virus infection screenings