Primary care visits for preventive services has nearly doubled since 2001, and new research suggests these visits give clinicians and patients more valuable time together. The proportion of preventive ...

While preventive health care is usually associated with primary care providers, a majority of office visits for preventive services among reproductive-age women happened with ...

Through innovations increasing the ease of scheduling and the efficiency of conducting annual wellness visits (AWVs), a large Medicare accountable care organization has been able to increase AWV rates ...

A friend, new to Medicare, asked me whether Medicare covered annual physicals. I told him, “No, it doesn’t.” The Social Security act clearly prohibits Medicare from paying for annual physical ...

Two years into the worst global pandemic in 100 years, it seems that Covid-19 is on a downswing to endemic status in the U.S. Its aftershocks are still with us, however, and will be for some time. Our ...

While most parents say it's important for health care providers to speak privately with teens during checkups, far fewer are ...

People who experienced early socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) were 12–16% less likely to go for preventive dental visits during both adolescence and adulthood, a new University of Bristol study has ...

If you could identify a problem before it becomes a MAJOR problem, would you? That’s exactly the intent of preventive care. Preventive care helps you stay as healthy as possible. With regularly ...

Content by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia. By encouraging earlier action, Anthem is improving both the ...