Medicare Annual Wellness Visit in Millburn, NJ

The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is a yearly prevention appointment. Instead of a head-to-toe exam, it focuses on building and updating a personalized prevention plan: what screenings and vaccines you’re due for, which health risks to work on, and how to stay independent and safe at home.

• A health risk questionnaire and review of your medical and family history
• A review of all your current medications and supplements
• Height, weight, BMI and blood pressure
• A check of memory and thinking
• Screening for depression
• A review of daily function and home safety, including fall risk
• A written screening schedule for the next 5–10 years
• A list of your other doctors and care providers
• Advance care planning, if you’d like to discuss it

In your first 12 months with Medicare Part B, you can have a one-time Welcome to Medicare preventive visit. It reviews your health history, checks your blood pressure, weight and vision, makes sure you’re up to date on screenings and vaccines, and gives you a written plan. After that, you can have an Annual Wellness Visit every 12 months.

Original Medicare doesn’t cover a routine yearly physical, but it does cover the Annual Wellness Visit. If you want a new or ongoing problem treated at the same appointment, that part is billed as a regular office visit, and your usual Medicare cost-sharing can apply. We’ll tell you if that happens. Under 65 or have other insurance? See our annual physical page.

We accept Medicare assignment, so with Original Medicare the Annual Wellness Visit and the Welcome to Medicare visit are $0: no copay and no deductible. Most Medicare Advantage plans cover an annual wellness visit too; call us and we’ll help you check. See insurance & billing.

Please bring: your Medicare card, a list or bag of all your medications and supplements, names of your other doctors, any recent test results, and your glasses or hearing aids if you use them.