Preventive Care
Preventive care is an important and valuable part of your healthcare. Regular physical checkups and appropriate screenings can help you and your doctor detect illness early.
The Trust Fund provides many preventive care services for a small copayment when you use in-network providers.
What’s Covered
Preventive care takes many forms. Below are some of the preventive medical care services covered by the Health and Benefit Trust Fund:
- Annual Physicals
The annual physical examination benefit is payable once per Calendar Year per person. You can get an annual physical from an Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield network provider.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. You may also use your Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield benefits for your annual physical. There is a copayment for your annual physical when you use a network provider. Physicals are NOT covered if you use an out-of-network provider.
- Diagnostic Screenings
- Cancer
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- PSA
- Well-Woman Care
- Office visits
- Bone density tests
- Mammograms
- Pap smears
- Well-Child Care
- Newborn hospital visits
- Office visits
- Immunizations for DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus), polio, MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), varicella (chicken pox), and more
- Flu Shots
- Covered 100% for Local 94 participants who go to a local pharmacy that participates in the Vaccine Immunization/Injection Network administered by OptumRx
Your Preventive Benefits At-a-Glance
View a schedule of preventive care benefits.
For More Information
You can check the My Health section of www.anthembluecross.com for more information. There you’ll find the latest information on hundreds of topics ranging from nutrition to stress management to children’s immunization guidelines.
FAQs
I gave my Anthem Blue Cross card to my dentist, and they told me that dental benefits were not covered. Why is my coverage being denied?
The Fund provides medical benefits coverage through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s PPO medical plan. Your Dental Benefits are administered by Sele-Dent. For more information about your Dental Benefits, please see the Dental Benefits section of this site.