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$119 [0], since it's not mentioned in the article. Also, not yet available to the masses: > With limited quantities of kits available, Pixel by LabCorp is cur
by stronglikedan 7y ago
$119 [0], since it's not mentioned in the article.
Also, not yet available to the masses:
> With limited quantities of kits available, Pixel by LabCorp is currently prioritizing healthcare workers and first responders, consistent with guidance from the CDC. We plan to make kits more broadly available soon so please check back.
[0]https://www.pixel.labcorp.com/ https://www.pixel.labcorp.com/
- fmakunbound 7y agoAnyone know if that $119 at cost? LabCorp is going to make a killing of this crisis...
- malandrew 7y agoMaybe, maybe not. Their other tests have almost no demand right now due to coronavirus. How much of a killing they make will depend on which tests have better margins.
- hbosch 7y agoI believe LabCorp's Men's Health Test is relatively popular amongst guys looking to check their testosterone levels. The results can be taken to a "men's health physician", or a "bio-identical hormone physician", or whatever else they are called and used to justify legal hormone therapies (typically testosterone injections and/or estrogen-blockers). Common for bodybuilders, or even just dudes closing in on 60 who want to stay good at golf.
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- stronglikedan 7y agoLikely not "at cost", since a for-profit company should be expected to be making a profit, but probably close, considering the herculean effort to get these things to market, despite the red tape.
- three_seagrass 7y agoThe Labcorp Pixel covid kit is a mail-in sample swap for a PCR test. The variable cost is magnitudes lower than $119.
- James_Henry 7y agoThere is also the variable cost of the technician needed to run the machine, no?
- three_seagrass 7y agoLab techs will spend at maximum a couple minutes on each test, if they are manually preparing and pipetting samples, as the majority of the test is automated on a PCR thermocycler. At $30/hr that's $1/test in labor at most. Edit: This isn't a total cost analysis, just labor like the person asked.
- anon102010 7y agoWhat a pathetic analysis. This price includes Fedex shipping both ways, mail handling and controls (which are CRITICAL for this type of testing), R&D, validation, hoopjumping for the FDA and much more (buildings, accounting, payroll, HR, PR, attrys). This is a very low price. Plenty of business would be $150/test TODAY to test huge numbers of employees, and $250/test TODAY to test employees they were worried might be sick. Someone comes in with a fever, have them do this fedex test, 3-4 days later they could be a back at work if negative.
- jdc 7y agoWhen disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- gniv 7y agoAs another comparison point, Switzerland govt said the insurance companies will pay CHF 180 for a test. https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-78335.html https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei...
- tedmiston 7y agoFor the curious: CHF 180 ~= $186 USD
- Datsundere 7y agoThe governor of Maryland got 500,000 kits for 18 dollars per kit
- vajrabum 7y agoFrom South Korea https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/maryland-gets-500000-test-kits-from-south-korea/ https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/coronavirus/maryl...
- prostheticvamp 7y agoI spent hours on the phone today with labcorp trying to acquire these for our healthcare center staff. Not a single employee knew how to sell them, or that they were even something labcorp offered.