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by jtolj 3475 days ago
Hope this isn't considered spammy by anyone, I certainly have no incentive (financial or otherwise) to recommend it, but there's a company called "Life Extension" that allows you to order blood tests online.

They email you paperwork, you take that to a local lab and then get your results online. It looks like Vitamin D is $47.

I used it for a while when I was suffering from a health issue that required regular blood tests, since it ended up being cheaper than a doctors visit + co-insurance for the lab fees.

The biggest downside is there's nobody to explain the results to you, although the report they provide does show if you are outside the normal range of whatever they are testing.

http://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/blood-test...

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I second this. I use Life Extension. However, I've been paying out of pocket. I'm interested if there's a way to get it covered at all.

By the way, this is really just using LabCorp, and you can order similar tests directly via LabCorp. Might be worth price shopping between them, and checking out their different test options.