{"id":14,"date":"2021-07-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2021-08-08T21:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:39:35","slug":"what-does-preventive-care-mean-and-is-it-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/what-does-preventive-care-mean-and-is-it-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Preventive Care Mean and Is It Covered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trickiest parts of insurance in Kingwood, TX, and all over the country,&nbsp;is determining what is and isn&#8217;t covered. So what does preventative care mean? And how do you know if it is covered by your insurance?&nbsp;Boss Insurance Agency has all the answers to your insurance questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Preventive Care is a health care service that is routine and designed to prevent health issues or diseases before they arise. &nbsp;These include annual check-ups and physicals, screenings, blood work, dental cleanings, eye exams and patient counseling.<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of potential illnesses can be prevented by attending these preventive care visits or problems can be caught very early, meaning they are much less costly to treat.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all insurance plans cover some preventive care at no cost to the patients, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Annual physicals<\/li>\n<li>Blood work<\/li>\n<li>Testing for cholesterol levels, diabetes (blood sugar) and blood pressure levels<\/li>\n<li>Annual well woman exams (which includes Pap smears to screen for cervical and other reproductive cancers)<\/li>\n<li>Well-baby and well-child visits (through age 21)<\/li>\n<li>Vaccinations against diseases such as polio, mumps, measles, meningitis and others<\/li>\n<li>Vaccinations for viral infections such as the flu<\/li>\n<li>Screenings for many cancers, including colonoscopies and&nbsp;mammograms<\/li>\n<li>Counseling on health related topics such as losing weight, quitting smoking or drinking, managing mental health issues, exercising and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preventive care is typically done once per year and the services covered vary from plan to plan.&nbsp;Some plans may offer more extensive preventive services. It&#8217;s&nbsp;important to take advantage of whatever preventive services your plan offers to ensure you stay ahead of any more serious medical issues before they develop.<\/p>\n<p>The team at Boss Insurance Agency, serving Kingwood, TX are standing by to answer your questions today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trickiest parts of insurance in Kingwood, TX, and all over the country,&nbsp;is determining what is and isn&#8217;t covered. So what does preventative care mean? And how do you know if it is covered by your insurance?&nbsp;Boss Insurance Agency has all the answers to your insurance questions.&nbsp; Preventive Care is a health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance","tag-boss-insurance-agency","tag-kingwood-tx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4txinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}