MD & DO Need help finding a place to do titers at with poor health insurance

[Robin-jay]

Hello everyone, I'm tremendously busy today so I may not get back to you right away. I was accepted and need titers done asap.

However, here is the quick story:

1. I got titers when I had good health insurance -- it came back I needed to do some shots
2. I did those shots with good health care insurance
3. My scribe job had me do a Hep. B only titer, passed
4. My health insurance is bad now( close to medicaid but one step above that) and I need a titer, and I'm sure it will pass everything else, but where do I go to get a cheap titer done without insurance?

Thanks!!

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[DrStephenStrange]

Hello everyone, I'm tremendously busy today so I may not get back to you right away. I was accepted and need titers done asap.

However, here is the quick story:

1. I got titers when I had good health insurance -- it came back I needed to do some shots
2. I did those shots with good health care insurance
3. My scribe job had me do a Hep. B only titer, passed
4. My health insurance is bad now( close to medicaid but one step above that) and I need a titer, and I'm sure it will pass everything else, but where do I go to get a cheap titer done without insurance?

Thanks!!

My insurance wouldn't pay for titers either, the cheepest way I had found to get titers done was on that website requestatest.com. you create an account you pay and place your order for a specific date, you select the closest lab (quest diagnostics or labcorp) to you to go get it done, then when the results are in they post the pdf file on your account. At my primary care clinic (which actually uses quest diagnostics as well) they charged me ~1500, while on that website it was ~400 for everything.

Good luck.

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[Donald Juan]

I went to my local department of public health. I don't remember it costing anything near what was listed above.

 

[Smurfette]

Does your med school have a student health services? Call and ask your school if they have anything set up for students to get titers done. Mine did. I don't recall paying anything, so if there was a charge it must've been forgettably low and didn't affect my budget.

 

[DrStephenStrange]

I went to my local department of public health. I don't remember it costing anything near what was listed above.

Actually, it might have been cheaper than 400, but yeah the public health department in your area my also be a good option (haha don't know how I didn't think about that when I was doing my titers). Browse the website for their prices and compare it to what the public health department offers, and go with the cheapest.

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[Taddy Mason]

I second @Donald Juan. For med school I had to get varicella titers, HBV titers, an HBV booster, and a Mantoux. Went to occupational health and paid <$200 total - insurance covered almost none of it. Had to do the same for residency ~2 months ago plus a Tdap, went to one of the FM residency programs at my school and paid <$200. Again, insurance really didn’t cover anything. So not sure where you are getting those prices.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Find a direct primary care office.

At my old practice all of the school required titers would run you a grand total of about 40 to $50.

 

[Zazam]

Definitely try a primary care office! My titers would have cost $200-$250 without insurance

 

[Robin-jay]

Thanks everyone!

I'm going to consult the primary care physician around me and ask how much a titer would be with my poor health insurance.

I will also try my local department of public health if that also doesn't work out.

So far it appears that my school isn't going to help (Although I haven't got the final word on that yet).

If those don't work, I will try requestatest.com as an above poster mentioned.

 

[lovehate]

Department of health for vaccines. $10 for all the vaccines I needed.

Order Student Titers, Wellness Labs, Drug test , TB Tests, and more. (Labreqs .com) for the titers. No doctor order needed. Much cheaper than any other place

 

[nimbus]

Your local public health clinic will do it for free or at a very nominal cost. And you can get STD tested and get free condoms while you’re at it😉

 

[Robin-jay]

Department of health for vaccines. $10 for all the vaccines I needed.

Order Student Titers, Wellness Labs, Drug test , TB Tests, and more. (Labreqs .com) for the titers. No doctor order needed. Much cheaper than any other place

i don't understand, I would order the test, and where would I go to get it administered?

 

[Robin-jay]

Your local public health clinic will do it for free or at a very nominal cost. And you can get STD tested and get free condoms while you’re at it😉

Sounds like a good deal. Not getting STD tested. I just don't even wanna know 😉

 

[lovehate]

i don't understand, I would order the test, and where would I go to get it administered?

You order the titer online. Pay for it. You get the doctor order by email. They work with different labs (labcorp, diagnostics, etc). they will choose the nearest one to your zip code. You go to the lab and the website will take care of the payment. Results are delivered by email when ready.

 

[Gurby]

Call up your local urgent care and see if they can do it / what they charge. Pretty sure it ran me <$200 total.

 

[ndafife]

I've just been doing urgent care for titers/vaccines over the last year
Public health should be cheap as well

I also have access to employee health at the hospitals that I am rotating at, so that may be an option to check as well if you are at that level