Annual Wellness & Preventive Physical

Comprehensive annual wellness visits and preventive physicals for adults through Internal Medicine and Family Medicine teams at the Broadway First Hill campus. Appointments cover head-to-toe physical examination, medical history review, chronic disease screening, and personalized preventive counseling. Medicare Annual Wellness Visits are fully supported. The on-site Lifestyle and Metabolic Medicine specialty adds weight management, metabolic, and cardiovascular risk assessment to the preventive care offering.

A thorough annual physical or wellness visit at The Polyclinic — now Optum Care Washington — puts patients in front of an experienced internist or family medicine physician at the Broadway First Hill campus, one of Seattle's most established multi-specialty facilities. The visit is designed to identify health issues early and to set a personalized prevention roadmap based on age, family history, lifestyle, and existing conditions. For Medicare beneficiaries, the Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is covered in full by Medicare Part B and most Medicare Advantage plans. The AWV includes a health risk assessment, review of functional ability and safety, a personalized prevention plan, and updates to the patient's medical record. The Medicare Population Health Team is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at (206) 860-5510 to assist with scheduling and plan questions. For non-Medicare patients, the traditional annual physical includes a complete head-to-toe examination, vital signs, cardiovascular and respiratory assessment, abdominal evaluation, skin inspection, and age-appropriate cancer screenings. Physicians integrate on-site lab results — ordered the same day or reviewed from prior draws — to complete a full metabolic, lipid, and endocrine picture during or shortly after the visit. The on-campus Lifestyle and Metabolic Medicine specialty strengthens the preventive offering. This service addresses obesity, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular risk through evidence-based lifestyle interventions, making The Polyclinic one of the few Seattle clinics to combine primary preventive care with dedicated metabolic medicine under the same roof. The Washington Health Alliance ranked the practice #1 out of 325 clinics in Washington state for overall care quality in 2025. Scheduling is available via the MyChart patient portal or by calling the main Broadway line.