tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 39

Reader Questions: Learn HIV Risk Factors

Question: I understand that Medicare has an expanded HIV screening policy for patients in a high risk group. What factors make a patient "high risk" under Medicare's rule?Answer: The HIV high risk group is eligible for one annual voluntary HIV screening. Medicare defines "high risk" as anyone with one of the following characteristics:Men who have had sex with men after 1975Men and women having unprotected sex with multiple [more than one] partnersPast or present injection drug usersMen and women who exchange sex for money or drugs,or have sex partners who doIndividuals whose past or present sex partners...

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