Loyola Medicine Encouraging Medicare Wellness Visits to Help Prevent Disease and Disability
August 12, 2019Categories: Primary Care
Tags: Primary Care
MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine is encouraging seniors to undergo annual Medicare wellness visits as a way to help prevent disease and disability.
The visits are available once a year to patients who are 65 and older and on Medicare Part B. Most insurance plans will pay for one wellness or preventive exam per year.
A wellness visit provides face-to-face time with a primary care physician or nurse practitioner, who reviews the patient's health history, screens for potential health issues, reviews medications and makes healthcare plans.
During the wellness visit, the healthcare team will:
- Review and update the patient's medical and family history
- Review and update a list of providers and prescriptions
- Record height, weight, blood pressure and other routine measurements
- Establish or update a disease-screening schedule based on health status, screening history and age
- Provide health advice and a referral, if appropriate, to health education or preventive counseling services or programs
- Discuss advance care planning
- Assess any cognitive (memory) issues
- Update immunization records and order recommended vaccinations
A wellness visit does not include a physical exam or discussion of new problems or a detailed review of chronic conditions.
To make an appointment for a wellness visit at Loyola Medicine, call 888-584-7888.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or X (formerly known as Twitter).
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).