Patients who have just turned 45 and are at an average risk for colon cancer.

Cologuard is covered by Medicare and most major insurers. Please check with your insurance prior to ordering your cologuard kit.

Click here to fill out a secure web form to request your cologuard kit. All information is confidential. 

You can return your cologuard kit through UPS by either scheduling a pick up or dropping the return kit off at your local UPS store. Please keep in mind to plan to collect your sample when you can get it back to UPS that same or next day.

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There is no preperation needed in order to conduct your cologuard screening. 

Your primary care provider will provide you with your result about 2 weeks after the sample has been received in the lab.

Follow up with your healthcare provider. Schedule a colonoscopy to see what this positive result means for you.

• Any patient over the age of 45 who is at average risk patients who don’t have a family history of colon cancer, a personal history of colon polyps, or inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease can screen for colon cancer with iFOB.

• iFOB is covered by Medicare, Masshealth and most insurances. 

• Your PCP can prescribe the IFOB kit and you can pick it up at your PCP’s office.

• Return your iFOB kit directly to your PCP office.

• Your PCP will send you your results within 2 weeks of returning your test

• Your PCP will likely recommend a colonoscopy. Talk to your doctor. 

• Patients at high risk for colon cancer; who have a family history of colon cancer, a personal history of colon polyps or a personal history of inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis should have a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. There are other conditions that may put you at higher risk for colon cancer, talk to your PCP if colonoscopy is right for you.  Any patient at average risk can also undergo colonoscopy for colon cancer screening.

• Colonoscopy for colon cancer screening is covered by Medicare, Masshealth and most major insurances.

• Your PCP can order a colonoscopy during your next regular office visit.

• Colonoscopy preparation requires not eating and drinking only clear liquids for 1-2 days prior to the procedure. The day before your procedure you will drink a laxative solution to clear out all of the bowel until your stool is clear.  Because the procedure requires anesthesia, you will need someone to drive you home from the procedure afterwards. 

• Your doctor will send you your results within 2 weeks of completing your test.

• The advantage of colonoscopy is that doctors can remove precancerous polyps during the procedure. Your doctor will tell you if there were any polyps removed and when you should have your next colonoscopy.