Annual Wellness Visit
100% Covered with Medicare or Insurance Preventive care designed around you, with no out-of-pocket cost.
What Is A Wellness Visit?
An Annual Wellness Visit is not a traditional physical exam. Instead, it’s a yearly check-in focused on prevention. During your wellness visit, we evaluate your overall health, review your medical history, and work with you to develop a customized prevention plan based on your risk factors and health goals.
What Is The Cost?
Your Annual Wellness Visit is 100% covered if you have Medicare, Medicaid, or commercial health insurance. That means no out-of-pocket cost for this valuable service, as long as your coverage is active, and your healthcare provider is in-network.
Telehealth Wellness Visits
At Family Hospital Systems, your health and convenience come first. That’s why we offer Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) through secure telehealth video appointments, so you can complete your wellness checkup from the comfort of your own home.
During Your Telehealth Visit We Will:
- Review your current health and medical history
- Screen for risks like depression, cognitive issues, or fall risk
- Update your medications and providers
- Create a personalized prevention plan
- Discuss advance care planning, if you choose
- Suggest preventative screenings & help coordinate referrals to have these screenings completed
- Write provider orders for any Labs or Diagnostic Imaging based risks factors like age, gender, or past medical history.
Common Preventative Screenings
One-time ultrasound for individuals at risk (e.g., male aged 65–75 who has ever smoked). Helps detect ballooning of the abdominal aorta that can be life-threatening if it ruptures.
Annual screening for adults who use alcohol but aren’t alcohol-dependent. Includes brief counseling interventions if misuse is detected.
Every 24 months (or more often if medically necessary) for those at risk of osteoporosis. Measures bone density and helps detect bone loss.
Annual screening mammogram for women aged 40 and older. Detects early signs of breast cancer.
Every 5 years. Blood tests that screen for cholesterol, lipid, and triglyceride levels to assess heart disease risk.
Once every 24 months (or every 12 months for high-risk women). Detects cervical and vaginal cancers early.
Varies by test: fecal occult blood test (yearly), flexible sigmoidoscopy (every 4 years), colonoscopy (every 10 years or more often if high-risk), and stool DNA tests.
Annual screening conducted in a primary care setting. Helps detect early signs of depression.
Up to 2 screenings per year for people at risk for diabetes. Checks fasting blood glucose levels.
For patients diagnosed with diabetes. Provides tools to manage diabetes through nutrition, exercise, and medication adherence.
Covered annually. Protects against seasonal influenza virus.
Annual screening for high-risk individuals (e.g., those with diabetes or family history). Detects early signs of glaucoma that can lead to blindness.
Covered for individuals at high or medium risk. Detects hepatitis B virus and prevents infection through vaccination.
One-time screening for adults born between 1945–1965 or those at high risk. Helps detect the presence of the hepatitis C virus.
Annual screening for individuals at increased risk. Also covered for pregnant women.
Annually for adults 50–77 years old who currently smoke or have quit in the past 15 years, with at least a 20-pack-year smoking history.
Annual BMI measurement and up to 12 sessions of behavioral counseling for qualifying patients.
Covered once every 12 months for men over 50. Measures prostate-specific antigen levels in blood.
Annual screening for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and hepatitis B for those at risk. Counseling included.
Two attempts per year (each attempt includes up to 4 counseling sessions). Helps patients quit tobacco use.
Covered vaccines include Flu, Pneumococcal, Hepatitis B, and now COVID-19 vaccines.
Advanced Care Planning
A conversation with your provider to document care preferences in case of serious illness or emergency. This ensures that your wishes are known and respected—now and in the future. These can be made known through an Advanced Directive.
Common Advanced Directives
This form is designed to help you communicate your wishes about medical treatment at some time in the future when you are unable to make your wishes known because of illness or injury.
This document allows you to make decisions in advance about mental health treatment and specifically three types of mental health treatment: psychoactive medication, convulsive therapy and emergency mental health treatment. The instructions that you include in this declaration will be followed only if a court believes that you are incapacitated to make treatment decisions. Otherwise, you will be considered able to give or withhold consent for the treatments.
Except to the extent you state otherwise, this document gives the person you name as your agent the authority to make any and all health care decisions for you in accordance with your wishes, including your religious and moral beliefs, when you are no longer capable of making them yourself.
This form instructs emergency medical personnel and other health care professionals to forgo resuscitation attempts and to permit the patient to have a natural death with peace and dignity. This order does NOT affect the provision of other emergency care including comfort care.
This form is for designating an agent who is empowered to take certain actions regarding your property. It does not authorize anyone to make medical and other healthcare decisions for you.
FAQ's
A Telehealth Annual Wellness Visit is a virtual check-in with your healthcare provider using secure video technology. It covers everything included in an in-person AWV—like reviewing your medical history, creating a personalized prevention plan, and identifying any needed screenings—without requiring a trip to the clinic.
Yes! If you have Medicare or commercial health insurance, your Annual Wellness Visit is 100% covered once every 12 months—even when done via telehealth. There’s no copay, deductible, or coinsurance when your provider accepts your plan.
All you need is:
A smartphone, tablet, or computer with a camera
A reliable internet connection
A quiet, private space
You may also want to have your current medication list and any recent vital sign measurements (like blood pressure) if available.
Absolutely! If your provider determines you need additional services—like lab work, imaging, or a specialist referral—we will coordinate everything for you. You’ll receive guidance on where to go and what to expect, and we’ll handle the insurance side too.
Yes. We use a HIPAA-compliant video platform to ensure your visit is private and secure. Your health information is protected just as it would be in a traditional in-person appointment.
Most visits take about 30 to 45 minutes, depending on your medical history and any concerns you’d like to discuss.
No worries—our staff is here to help! We can walk you through the setup process and test your connection before the visit, so you feel confident and comfortable.
You can schedule online, give us a call, or request a callback. Choose the time that works best for you and let us know if you’d prefer a telehealth visit—we’ll take care of the rest!