Dear WellCare Provider, 

As many of you know, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released updated guidelines for mammography. The recommended changes in the frequency and ages for breast cancer screening with mammography include first mammograms at age 50 and then every two years thereafter until age 75.  

This varies from WellCare’s current guidelines. We have carefully reviewed the new recommendations, as well as responses from the American College of Radiology and the American Cancer Society. 

Based on these reviews, we do not plan to change our current guidelines for breast cancer screening. We prefer that the decision as whether to start screening at age 40 or later remain with the member’s physician.    

Please read the attached notice for more information. 

Thank you,

WellCare Health Plans