Some Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans with drug coverage may cover the cost of colonoscopy prep kits. However, private insurance companies administer these plans, so the coverage ...

Some Medicare Part D plans and Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans with drug coverage may cover the costs of colonoscopy prep kits. But because private insurance companies administer these plans, the ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

(BPT) - Recently, Minnesotans have been receiving unsolicited, unrequested at-home colon cancer screening kits from health insurers, without a doctor's input. If you received one in the mail, you ...

ColonaryConcepts, a device company, began a phase IIb trial of its colonoscopy preparation kit, EC Prep. 1. The phase IIb trial will assess the efficacy and safety of bowel prep, compared to a widely ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cologuard is an at-home test to screen for colon cancer. I've used it, but now some folks who have used it are getting surprise medical bills. “I thought, this screening at home ...

DAVENPORT -- Anyone 50 years old or older, or those with other factors associated with an increased risk of colon cancer, are encouraged to pick up and return a free colon cancer testing kit in the ...

Trinity and Community Health Partners are offering free colon-cancer screening kits through August. The screenings, endorsed by the American Cancer Society, uses the Hemoccult II Screening Kit.

Earlier this year, Juanita Thomas, 63, went to her local Department of Motor Vehicles to register a car. For Thomas — a retired housekeeper, mom, grandmother and great-grandmother in Omaha, Nebraska — ...

Colonoscopy remains the gold-standard means of colon cancer screening, as the procedure can prevent cancers by removing pre-cancerous polyps. However, it requires sedation and patients must take ...

Did you receive a Cologuard test at your door, despite not ordering one? Someone may have ordered it for you.