CoverScore
Edition 04 · Health

How well-covered are your health risks?

Not how healthy your body is — how well your risks are known, screened, and protected against. CoverScore is a navigation layer over the screening economy. We never tell you your body is a number.

General wellness tool — not medical adviceHealth data never shared with partnersExport or delete in one tap

The rule that shapes every word here: score movements are coverage actions, never body judgments.

Tier 1 · under 60 seconds

See which published guidelines apply to you

A few questions about what you know, what you're up to date on, and what has cover behind it — checked against the pinned USPSTF list and scored on coverage, never on your body. It runs entirely in this browser.

Instant Scan

Step 1 of 3

These answers decide which published screening guidelines apply to you. They are not scored — nothing here moves your number.

Sex assigned at birth

Screening guidelines are written this way, so this is the form the lookup needs.

Tobacco
Height and weight — optional

One published recommendation — the diabetes one — is written for a BMI threshold, so it only appears if you give these. Leave them blank and it stays out rather than being guessed at.

Nothing you type here leaves your browser. There is no account, no network request, and nothing is saved — close the tab and it is gone. General wellness information drawn from published guidelines, not medical advice.

How the score is built

Known · Screened · Protected

Three pillars, and the weight on each is the one the shipped rubric actually uses. Screened carries the most because it is the only pillar with published absolute effect sizes behind it; the other two are labelled product judgment, and say so.

Known

weight 0.25 · product judgment

What's on record — whether you have your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood-sugar numbers at all. Anything you skip is left unscored rather than filled in from a population default: it widens the confidence band instead of quietly moving the number.

Screened

weight 0.45 · eal

Whether you're up to date against published guidelines for your age and sex — the USPSTF grade, the source, and the free path, side by side.

Protected

weight 0.3 · product judgment

Whether a gap has coverage behind it — health insurance, disability, long-term-care planning. A protected gap and an unprotected one are not the same risk.

Screened

What the published guidelines actually say

Adherence and benefit, at a constant denominator — the only sanctioned way to compare a screening's uptake against its evidence.

screening · comparison
86% vs 33%

86.4% of adults have had cholesterol checked within 5 years — but only 33.4% of USPSTF-eligible adults received recommended blood-glucose testing over 3 years.

glucose
33.4
cholesterol
86.4
adults 18+ (BRFSS 2021) / adults 40–70 overweight-obese without diabetes (EMR cohort 2016–19) · 5-yr / 3-yr windows

same denominator, both figures

Tier B · qualifier — Cholesterol figure via state health-dept republication of BRFSS; glucose figure is EMR-based (IQVIA), 2015 eligibility criteria.
screening · comparison
0.15% vs 0.30% (RR 0.50)

Completing one screening colonoscopy cut the 10-year risk of dying from colorectal cancer in half — 0.15% vs 0.30% — but 58% of trial invitees never showed up.

screened
0.15
attendance
42
unscreened
0.3
per person actually screened (per-protocol); ITT mortality difference not significant · 10 years

same denominator, both figures

screening · comparison
NNS 130–323 / 16% uptake

Lung LDCT has the best number-needed-to-screen of any cancer screening (130–323 to prevent one death) — and only 16% of eligible Americans get it. Mammography: 80% uptake.

nns nlst
323
nns nelson
130
uptake
16
per person screened (NLST 6.5 yr; NELSON 10 yr); uptake = eligible adults screened (ALA 2024) · 6.5–10 years / point-in-time

same denominator, both figures

screening · comparison
80/75/67% vs uninsured 24%

Up-to-date rates: breast 80.0%, cervical 75.4%, colorectal 67.4% — but for the uninsured, colorectal drops to 23.8% vs 64.7% with private insurance.

eligible adults per USPSTF criteria, NHIS 2023 · point-in-time

same denominator, both figures

A personalized, age-by-age screening timeline (the window_timeline module) needs your date of birth to place doors on the axis. The Instant Scan above asks your age and forgets it the moment you close the tab, which is enough to resolve which doors are open to you right now — but a timeline you can come back to has to be stored, and nothing here stores anything (build rule #4). That version ships with the logged-in app.

Protected

Benefit and harm, in the same array

The honest screening display: absolute probabilities, not relative risk — deaths averted beside false positives, in one dot grid.

long term care · icon array
56% need / 45% paid / 14% $100k+

56% of adults turning 65 will develop a serious long-term-care need — but only 45% will ever receive paid care, average paid duration is just 0.8 years, and 1 in 7 will spend $100,000+ out of pocket.

oop 100k14 per 100
paid care45.3 per 100
serious need56 per 100
adults turning 65 in 2021–2025 (DYNASIM4 microsimulation); need = 2+ ADLs ≥90 days or severe cognitive impairment · lifetime from 65
screening · icon array
8.2 deaths averted per 1,000

Biennial mammography (40–74) averts 8.2 breast-cancer deaths per 1,000 women screened over a lifetime — alongside 1,376 false-positive recalls and 14 overdiagnosed cases per 1,000.

overdiagnosed14 per 1,000
deaths averted8.2 per 1,000
false positives1,376 per 1,000
per 1,000 women screened biennially 40–74 (CISNET model median) · lifetime
One account can care for a parent, too

Caregiving and the cost of an unprotected gap

caregiving
63M / 47% for a parent / $7,242 per yr

63 million Americans — 1 in 4 adults — are family caregivers, up 45% since 2015; 47% care for a parent or parent-in-law; average out-of-pocket cost $7,242/year (~26% of income).

US adults 18+ (n=6,858 caregivers surveyed, 2024 fielding) · point-in-time (2025 report)
long term care
$129,575/yr vs 7.5M covered

The median nursing-home private room costs $129,575/year; 90% of adults say that would be impossible or very difficult to pay — and only ~7.5M Americans (incl. hybrid policies) have any private LTC insurance.

25,000+ provider rates (CareScout 2025); covered lives (CRS 2020 / NAIC 2024) · annual
financial
23% / 28% / 1 in 12

23% of adults had a major unexpected medical expense last year (median $1,000–$1,999); 28% went without some care because they couldn't afford it; ~1 in 12 adults owes medical debt over $250.

US adults (SHED 2024; SIPP via Peterson-KFF) · prior 12 months / point-in-time
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