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by nradov 489 days ago
There is no proven health benefit to periodic medical checkups for healthy adults. At the population level it's a waste of resources. But certain preventive screening services are covered at no cost to the patient because they've been shown to be effective through high quality research studies.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...

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fixed annual, I agree, but symptom/test based assessments are useful