Humana Providing Medicare Advantage Members With At-Home Screening Tests For Colon Cancer & Diabetes Management

On July 23, 2020, Humana, Inc. announced plans to mail its Medicare Advantage members in-home preventive screening kits for colon cancer and for diabetes management. Humana anticipates mailing more than one million screening kits during 2020. The goal is to increase access to routine screenings that many members have put off during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Humana has previously mailed in-home preventive screening kits to members, but the one-million target to be sent between June and September 2020 triples the number to be mailed. William Shrank, M.D., Humana’s chief medical officer said . . .