{"id":6172,"date":"2017-09-15T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:03:26","slug":"annual-well-care-visit-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/annual-well-care-visit-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Well-Care Visit Reminder*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t forget about a very important preventive care benefit that you have as a Health New England Medicare Advantage member. Your Medicare Advantage plan covers an annual well-care visit at no cost to you. If you haven\u2019t yet had your free annual well-care visit this year, we encourage you to call your primary care provider (PCP) to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>During your annual well-care visit, you and your PCP can discuss the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your height, weight, blood pressure and other routine measurements<\/li>\n<li>Your medical and family history<\/li>\n<li>Medications, supplements and vitamins you are currently taking<\/li>\n<li>Any allergies you may have<\/li>\n<li>Health care you are receiving from other providers<\/li>\n<li>Your goals for maintaining good health and independence<\/li>\n<li>Your functional ability and activity level<\/li>\n<li>Your ability to get around safely, in your home and elsewhere (e.g., your risk of falling)<\/li>\n<li>Your emotional and mental health, and any concerns about depression, anxiety and memory loss<\/li>\n<li>Urinary incontinence<\/li>\n<li>Other concerns you may have about things like smoking cessation, weight loss, etc.<\/li>\n<li>A schedule for age- and gender-appropriate screenings and preventive services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t wait until you get sick to see your PCP; take advantage of your free annual well-care visit. Call your PCP\u2019s office to schedule your visit today, and bring this list of topics with you to discuss.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Health New England Medicare Advantage is an HMO Plan with a Medicare contract. Enrollment in Health New England Medicare Advantage depends on contract renewal. This information is not a complete description of benefits. Contact the plan for more information. Limitations, copayments and restrictions may apply. Benefits, premiums and\/or copayments\/coinsurance may change on January 1 of each year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t forget about a very important preventive care benefit that you have as a Health New England Medicare Advantage member. Your Medicare Advantage plan covers an annual well-care visit at no cost to you. If you haven\u2019t yet had your free annual well-care visit this year, we encourage you to call your primary care provider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[649,651,650],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-annual-well-visit","tag-medicare-advantage-memebers","tag-reminder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/annual-well-e1505484042191.bmp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-1By","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}