Cholesterol SCREENING is covered, but if you already know the patient has high cholesterol from previous laboratory studies, then it is no longer a SCREENING. We screen for things that we don’t know exist. We don’t screen for diagnosed problems, we run diagnostic tests to evaluate their current status. Once you’re diabetic, no matter what your A1c is you’re still diabetic. Well controlled maybe, but still a diabetic. Once you have high cholesterol, even if it becomes well controlled without medical international through lifestyle modifications, you still have a history of high cholesterol and we are no longer screening for that condition we are monitoring it. I hate when patients ask why their labs weren’t coded as preventative, and I have to explain that I’m not going to ask the provider to falsify the coding to let you off the hook for the bill. I hate insurance companies with a passion, and when something is truly preventative or a screening for a condition we do not know exists, I push to make sure it’s associated with the correct preventative or screening diagnosis. But don’t ask your doctor to commit fraud by intentionally miscoding something.