Blood draw at home.
The check-in comes to you.

You receive a validated self-collection kit by post, with instructions and a prepared return envelope. The collection uses capillary blood rather than a venous puncture and takes a few minutes. You then put the sample in the return envelope and drop it in the postbox. The partner laboratory analyses it, and we come back to you as soon as the values are in. You do not need to chase anything or book an appointment at a laboratory.

That depends on the panel. For triglycerides and the blood sugar values a fasted sample is considerably easier to assess; for HbA1c it makes no difference. With the hormone panels the timing matters more than fasting: testosterone belongs in the morning hours, and for cycle-dependent values the best day depends on your cycle. You receive the instructions relevant to your panel with the kit, so that the values are actually meaningful.

Evolve includes one check-in, Ultimate three across the year. The blood draw for these happens at home at no extra cost. Core includes no check-ins; if you booked Core you can add a single panel. Which panel is used for a programme check-in depends on your findings from the diagnostic day and on what was most recently abnormal.

For the parameters offered here we work with validated kits and a partner laboratory that applies the same standards as a draw at the clinic. Even so: capillary blood is not identical to venous blood in every respect, and a poorly taken sample produces poorer values. That is why the instructions are kept as short as possible, and why we confirm abnormal individual values venously rather than turning an outlier into a diagnosis.

No, and that is the difference from an online test. Medical interpretation is part of every panel: what the values mean in context, what has changed since the last measurement, and what concretely follows. You find it in your YEARS portal, and for a programme check-in it leads to an adjustment of your prevention plan.

As a private medical service we bill according to GOÄ, so reimbursement is possible depending on your policy. Privately insured patients submit the invoice to their insurer; with occupational health insurance the annual budget applies. German statutory health insurance generally does not cover laboratory values without a concrete suspicion of disease. The insurer always decides bindingly.