Medicare will cover a nuclear stress test if your doctor deems it medically necessary. Learn more about other Medicare requirements and potential costs.

When it comes to health, your eyes can certainly tell a story about your overall well-being. As you get older, that story gets more chapters — and becomes more complex. Unfortunately, ...

Several key members of the Senate Finance Committee have reintroduced a bill that seeks to establish a Medicare coverage ...

Low-value care—medical tests and procedures that provide little to no benefit to patients—contributes to excess medical ...

Medicare should cover blood tests doctors use to diagnose Lyme disease when a doctor or professional enrolled with Medicare considers them medically necessary. Typically, Medicare Part B should ...

A research team has found that telemedicine may help to reduce the use of low-value tests. Low-value care -- medical tests and procedures that provide little to no benefit to patients -- contributes ...

Before implementing integration strategies more broadly, policy makers should first recognize and consider the health, social ...

A cognitive test is a required part of the Medicare annual wellness visit (AWV). This can be a valuable tool in discovering specific cognitive health conditions early, like dementia and Alzheimer ...

Original Medicare covers medically necessary blood tests. Medicare Advantage offers at least the same coverage. If a person needs multiple laboratory tests, they may need to pay for part of the cost.

A research team from Mass General Brigham and their collaborators have found that telemedicine may help to reduce the use of low-value tests.

The Medicare item received two years worth of additional funding in 2023. The Heart Foundation estimates wider uptake of the ...