Savvy senior - Medicare’s Preventive Services Are About to Get Better

Dear Savvy Senior

I’ve heard that Medicare will soon be offering seniors free health screenings. What can you tell me about this?

Searching Senior

Dear Searching

It’s true! Starting Jan. 1, 2011, as part of the new health care reform law, everyone with Original Medicare will have access to many important preventive health services, and most of them they won’t cost you a cent. Here’s what you should know.

No Cost-Sharing

Over the years, Medicare has covered a number of preventive health screenings like mammograms and colonoscopies with varying levels of cost-sharing (that includes deductibles,...