Comment by nerdsniper
5 months ago
https://www.privatemdlabs.com/
https://www.discountedlabs.com/
I’ve used both of these in USA with no physician or insurance involved at all. Zero red tape. I believe Canada has some additional rules/barriers against private testing without a physician.
The CEO of PrivateMD labs is on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JeanPierreK
Those places are very clear that they have a doctor on board who will order the actual test in your name. That’s why e.g privateMdlabs is promising that you “can avoid the doctors office”, not “no doctor involved”.
Ah - good info! It's very transparent to the customer, I never noticed that there was any doctor involved.