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June 2025

Select Medicare Advantage members will receive Cologuard test kits in July

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are working with Exact Sciences, a credentialed colorectal cancer screening provider, to distribute in-home Cologuard® test kits in July to select Medicare Plus Blue℠ and BCN Advantage℠ members.

Health care providers with patients who receive an advance notice about the kits should encourage them to take advantage of this convenient, no-cost screening.

Members who have a gap in care for colorectal cancer screening will receive Cologuard screening kits. Members who received kits from a Blue Cross or BCN program in 2023 or 2024, or are due for a colonoscopy in 2025, are excluded. Members will be encouraged to discuss test results with their primary care providers.

Test result notification

 

Results

Positive results

Blue Cross or BCN Medicare Advantage member

  • Letter including member’s results (negative only)
  • Text message and email, if member provides contact information, notifying member results are ready
  • Members can contact Exact Sciences Patient Support Line 24/7
  • Certified letter for all members who received positive results
  • Up to three phone call attempts to notify member of positive result
  • If unable to contact member by phone, results will be mailed a second time by standard mail

Primary care provider

  • Mailed
  • Faxed, if fax number is provided
  • Provider offices can also receive results by contacting Exact Sciences at 1-844-870-8870, view on the Epic Care portal or by requesting results at www.cologuardhcp.com/contact-us**

**Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network don’t own or control this website.

Cologuard® by Exact Sciences is an independent company that provides colorectal testing services to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network members.

No portion of this publication may be copied without the express written permission of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, except that BCBSM participating health care providers may make copies for their personal use. In no event may any portion of this publication be copied or reprinted and used for commercial purposes by any party other than BCBSM.

*CPT codes, descriptions and two-digit numeric modifiers only are copyright 2024 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.