One day instead of six months of scattered specialist appointments.

The market divides into three types. First, private preventive centres that bundle all diagnostics into one outpatient day: these include YEARS in Berlin and Metamedicum in Essen and Düsseldorf, formerly Preventicum. Second, medical-spa houses with a multi-day inpatient stay, above all Lanserhof at its Tegernsee, Sylt and Hamburg locations. Third, providers working through partner clinics and thereby covering several cities, such as Aeon. Added to that are the check-up departments of individual university and private hospitals. The choice depends less on the name than on three questions: one day or several, outpatient or inpatient, and whether medical follow-up comes after the report or only the report itself.

A comprehensive medical check-up designed around limited time: what would usually be spread across several specialist appointments over months runs in a single day in one place. The core is always a combination of laboratory analysis, imaging, cardiovascular functional diagnostics and medical interpretation. The term is not protected, though, and describes no defined scope of service. In practice it ranges from an extended basic check-up with 30 laboratory values to programmes with whole-body MRI, more than 200 biomarkers, genetics and liquid biopsy. When comparing, it is therefore worth looking at the list of services rather than the label.

The statutory health check in Germany is provided every three years from the age of 35 and covers a medical history, a physical examination, a small laboratory profile with cholesterol, glucose and kidney values, and a urine test. It is designed as a baseline safeguard and serves that purpose. Not included are imaging, differentiated lipid diagnostics with ApoB and Lp(a), hormone panels, inflammatory markers, exercise testing with directly measured VO2max, and all genetic procedures. An executive health check supplements those areas. It does not replace guideline-based early detection: colonoscopy, mammography and skin screening remain independently indicated.

The range is wide, because the term has no defined scope. At YEARS the entry point is the Core programme at 1,900 euros with 87 biomarkers, functional diagnostics and spiroergometry. Evolve costs 7,600 euros and additionally includes whole-body MRI, liquid biopsy and more than 120 biomarkers. Ultimate sits at 16,900 euros with more than 230 biomarkers, genetics, epigenetics, microbiome and three check-ins a year. We do not quote other providers’ prices, because they change continuously and an outdated figure is worse than none. What decides a comparison is what is included and what happens after the report.

Yes, and that is the usual route. A check-up for executives commissioned and paid for by the employer is generally treated as a business-related service, because the company’s interest in the capability of key people is the primary purpose. Whether a taxable benefit in kind arises in an individual case depends on the arrangement: who places the order, who receives the invoice, and whether the offer is open to a defined group. That is a question for your tax adviser, not one we answer in general terms. For corporate programmes covering several people we have a dedicated offer with consolidated billing.

The diagnostic day is built so that travelling makes sense: around six hours, everything in one place, no separate MRI appointment and no moving between practices. The clinic is in Berlin-Charlottenburg on Joachimsthaler Straße, a few minutes from the Kurfürstendamm, with direct connections to Zoo station and both airport links. The pre-test consultation runs by video beforehand, and the findings are discussed after four to six weeks either by video or on site, whichever suits you. For patients travelling from elsewhere in Germany we have a dedicated page with the process, hotel notes and timing.