Preventive health for men
Know what's due for your health.
A personalised preventive health review for men, based on your age, risk factors and Australian guidelines. We work out what you need, what you don't, and what to do next.
No 100-test panels. No biological-age scores. No unnecessary scans.
- Where
- Medical One QV
Level 3, 23 QV Terrace
292 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000
03 8663 7000 - With
- Dr Praveen Jayarajan, MBBS FRACGP
- Length
- 45 minutes
- Fee
- $250; Medicare rebate applies
- Results
- Copies to you; uploaded to My Health Record
What's due for a 47-year-old man with no risk factors
- Blood pressure and waist — today
- Cholesterol and ApoB — due
- Diabetes risk score — due
- Heart-risk calculation — due
- Bowel cancer screening — due (program kit)
- Lipoprotein(a) — once, if never done
- Sleep apnoea questions — if you snore or wake unrefreshed
- Immunisations — check
- Whole-body MRI — not indicated
- 100-biomarker panel — not indicated
- Testosterone — not without symptoms
- Calcium score — only if heart risk is intermediate
- Prostate test — a conversation from 50
Your own version depends on your family history and results. Set your age below to see the standard schedule.
What's due at your age
This is the standard schedule for a man with no risk factors, using the RACGP Red Book start ages, plus a few items from heart and specialist guidelines, which are marked. Your review sets your own version: a family history, smoking, a larger waist or an abnormal result moves items earlier, sometimes by decades. If you've had some of these done already, they're recorded as done, not repeated.
What happens in the review
Few men have ever had a structured check of what's due for their age. This review is exactly that.
- Before you come
Bring whatever you have, ideally as digital copies on your phone: your medication list, past medical history, specialist and hospital letters, and any test results from the last five years. Think about your family history too: parents, brothers and sisters with heart disease, diabetes, cancer or dementia, and roughly the age it started.
- The 45 minutes
Mostly conversation: family history, smoking, alcohol, activity, mood, sleep, how connected you feel, sexual health and erectile function. Then blood pressure and pulse, height, weight and waist, a grip-strength measure, your heart and diabetes risk scores, and a look at what's already been done. You'll see your timeline and which items are overdue, due, or not needed yet. With your consent the consultation is documented by an AI scribe; you can decline.
- The checks
Standard blood tests and screening are ordered under Medicare where there's a clinical reason for them — the same rules your GP works to — so there's no cost to you for those. Lipoprotein(a), a once-in-a-lifetime test no standard GP request includes, is offered to everyone (about $30 to $60 to the lab). ApoB is added to the cholesterol check from 40, or earlier with risk factors. A sexual health screen (STI and HIV tests, hepatitis B immunity) is offered to everyone and covered by Medicare. Hearing and eye checks, when they're due, are referred to an audiologist and an optometrist. Anything else that isn't covered is explained, with its cost and reason, before it's ordered, and where a scan or fitness test is needed we book it for you.
- Results and plan
A follow-up visit, in person or by phone, to go through the results. You leave with a written plan and a plain-English explanation of every result, plus copies of everything. Results are uploaded to My Health Record unless you ask us not to.
Tests we sometimes suggest, and when
Medicare doesn't cover these. Each is suggested only when it would change a decision, explained before it's ordered, and paid directly to the lab or clinic. Most people need one or two of them, not all.
If you're starting weight-loss treatment or a training program, a baseline physical of DEXA and VO2 max at partner clinics (about $300 to $500, paid to them) is booked from the review and the results come back to your second visit.
- Lipoprotein(a)once · about $30–60Everyone, once. An inherited cholesterol particle a normal test doesn't show.
- ApoBwith your cholesterol test · $15–50With the cholesterol check from 40, or earlier with a large waist, high triglycerides or family history. Counts cholesterol particles, a closer measure of the particles that cause heart disease.
- Coronary calcium scoreonce · $100–250Ages 45 to 75 when your calculated heart risk is in the middle and the decision about a cholesterol tablet is open. A ten-minute heart CT that measures plaque directly.
- Fitness test (VO2 max)baseline · $185–300If you're sedentary or starting a training program and want exact zones to train in. Repeated only after months of training.
- Body composition scan (DEXA)baseline · $120–200If you're starting weight-loss treatment or a program, to make sure you lose fat and keep muscle. Also when weight and waist tell different stories. In Victoria this scan needs a doctor's referral, which the review provides.
- Sleep studyMedicare-covered when criteria are metIf you snore, wake unrefreshed or score high on a short questionnaire. Under-diagnosed and highly treatable.
What we don't do
Every item below is sold in Australia as prevention. None changes what a doctor would do for a man with no symptoms, and several cause harm through follow-up of findings that were never going to matter.
Whole-body MRI or CT scansFrequent incidental findings; no evidence of benefit for people without symptoms.Hundred-biomarker blood panelsA panel is a list of tests without a reason.Hormone panels without symptomsCortisol, DHEA, thyroid antibodies and saliva tests.Biological age scoresA number from a model, not a measurement.Multi-cancer blood testsNot approved or recommended in Australia.Gut microbiome and food-intolerance kitsMail-in microbiome and IgG "intolerance" panels don't change what you should eat. Gut symptoms are a different matter: they are investigated properly under Medicare (coeliac disease, inflammation, iron, thyroid), and lactose or FODMAP intolerance is worked out with a breath test or a dietitian-guided diet.Routine heavy-metal and vitamin panelsOnly with an exposure or a symptom.Tests on a subscription calendarMost checks are yearly or two-yearly. We repeat a test at the interval the guidelines set or when your health changes, not because a billing cycle says so.Supplements or products tied to resultsWe don't sell anything the results might point to.Testosterone as a first test, or a route to TRTTested only with symptoms, in the morning, twice; and never on the way to a prescription.
Who you'll see
Dr Praveen Jayarajan is a general practitioner with twenty years in Australian practice. The review follows the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' preventive guidelines and its guidance on avoiding over-testing. Consultations are provided at Medical One QV; Due is the planning framework, not the clinic. This is general practice, done with the time it needs.
For referring doctors
Refer with a brief letter or via the practice. The patient is seen for a 45-minute preventive review; investigations are ordered only where there is a documented indication, and everything ordered is followed up here. You receive the results, the plan and a one-page summary. Patients return to you for ongoing care. This is not a general health check in the Cochrane sense; investigations are limited to Red Book items with an indication, and the review's role is to ensure they are done, not to add to them.
One review a year
Includes
- personalised preventive assessment
- review of your existing tests and letters
- cardiovascular and diabetes risk assessment
- screening status by age
- your written plan and timeline
- Standard blood tests and screening are billed under Medicare with no cost to you where you're eligible.
- Optional tests that Medicare doesn't cover are paid directly to the laboratory or imaging clinic, typically $30 to $300, and only after you've decided.
- Each year's review updates your plan and does the checks that are due that year. The results visit and any follow-up, in person or by phone, are standard consultations at the practice's usual fee, $119 to $129 with a gap of $74 to $84 after the Medicare rebate.
- Overseas student (OSHC) and overseas visitor (OVHC) cover is accepted; your insurer rebates consultations and standard tests at Medicare rates.
- Private health extras often cover the dietitian, exercise physiologist, podiatrist or dentist your plan may point to, and some include a health-check benefit. Check your policy.
- Your plan is yours to keep and works with any GP. There is no membership and nothing renews automatically; you book the next review when it's due.
Questions
Is this one of those big biomarker panels?
The standard tests in this review measure more than forty individual markers, including several the commercial panels leave out. The difference isn't the number; it's that every test here is ordered for a stated reason, most are covered by Medicare, and nothing is added to make a bigger list.
Will you find something my GP wouldn't?
Probably not, and that's the point. There is no secret test. The advice at the end of any honest preventive review is the advice every good doctor gives: eat well, move, sleep, stay connected, don't smoke. What this review adds is a proper look at which checks apply to you, the time to do them, and a written plan, so what applies to you gets done, and what doesn't is left out.
Is this just a general check-up?
No. A general check-up runs the same tests on everyone. This review works from the checks Australian guidelines recommend for a man of your age and risk, each on its own evidence, and leaves out the ones that don't apply to you.
I've been looking at a full-body screening program. Is this instead of that?
It's the version a GP would do. Those programs sell a large set of tests and scans on a membership; this is a single doctor's review that orders the checks with a reason behind them, under Medicare where you're eligible, and follows up everything it finds. If you still want a test we don't offer after we've talked it through, we'll explain what it can and can't tell you and you can decide.
I already have a GP. Is this for me?
Yes. Most people are up to date on some of this and not others; the review works out which, without repeating what's been done. The review doesn't replace your GP. You receive copies of your results and the plan, and they are uploaded to My Health Record unless you ask otherwise, so any doctor you see can use them. Every future check on the timeline can be done wherever you choose. If your GP referred you, they receive the results and the plan.
Why 45 minutes?
Because a proper history, the measurements, the risk scores and a real conversation about what to do next don't fit in a standard consultation. An AI scribe handles the note-taking so the time is spent with you, not the screen.
What is the AI scribe?
Software that listens to the consultation and drafts the clinical note, which the doctor reviews and corrects before it goes in your record. You'll be asked for consent at the start and you can say no.
What if something is found?
You'll be told what it means and what happens next at the results visit. We follow up every result we order; nothing is handed to another doctor to sort out. Borderline results are common and usually mean nothing, and we'll tell you which ones those are rather than leaving you to look them up. We choose tests whose results lead to a clear next step, which is the main reason the list is short.
What does it cost?
The review is $250, with a gap of about $128 after the Medicare rebate. The results visit is a standard consultation ($119 to $129, gap $74 to $84). Standard tests are covered by Medicare. If you choose an optional test that isn't covered, you pay the provider directly and you'll know the price beforehand.
I'm an international student or on a visa without Medicare. Can I book?
Yes. OSHC and OVHC policies rebate GP visits and standard tests at Medicare rates. Bring your policy card.
Does private health insurance cover this?
No fund can cover a GP consultation; that's the law for any service with a Medicare rebate. Extras policies usually do cover the allied health and dental visits your plan may recommend, and some include a health-check benefit you can claim against optional tests.
Can I bring my partner?
Book a separate appointment for each person; the schedule differs by age and sex and the room time is per person.
Can any of this be done remotely?
The review itself is in person because of the measurements. Follow-up visits, including the results visit, can be in person or by phone; once you've been seen at the practice, standard-length phone consultations attract a Medicare rebate.
Book a review
Appointments are on weekdays between 10am and 3pm. Choose a 45-minute appointment with Dr Jayarajan and select "Preventive Health Review" as the reason.
Medical One QV
Level 3, 23 QV Terrace
292 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000
03 8663 7000
Bring your Medicare or OSHC card and, ideally as digital copies, your medication list, past medical history, specialist or hospital letters, and any test results from the last five years.