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The Wellness Visit Is Free. The Blood Panel Ordered With It Bills Separately, and the Vitamin D Test Isn’t a Medicare Screening at All

One blood draw, four tubes, and a free appointment can still produce a bill weeks later because the orders written during a wellness visit travel through Medicare on separate tracks with different rules. Knowing which lane each test lands in before the needle goes in changes everything.
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