Tuesday, 8 September 2026 Independent · Evidence graded Index Q3 2026
Baseline
Preventive medicine, examined.
Annual membership · Naples, US

Fountain Life

CORE (n/p) to ~$19,500–21,500, per year. Serving US.

Price reported Figures checked 2026-09-07 Index Q3 2026 Provider website

What it is

Sold as CORE, APEX and APEX Family annual memberships, with APEX reported at roughly $19,500 to $21,500 a year. The most extensive diagnostic bundle in the Index and the most expensive. Diagnosis and in-house therapeutics sit within the same business, which places more of the interpretive judgement inside the organisation providing the treatment. Members should read the referral pathway carefully; the model works well for people who want one team owning everything.

The evidence behind what it offers

We grade tests, not companies. These are our standing assessments of the modalities this provider offers, and they apply identically to everyone offering them.

Baseline evidence grade C: Mechanistically plausible and widely used, but no trial evidence of net benefit in the screened population.
Whole-body MRI

No randomised trial has shown a mortality benefit in asymptomatic adults, and roughly a third of scanned people receive a critical or unresolved incidental finding.

Baseline evidence grade B-: Promising trial evidence that does not yet reach a hard outcome, or a single registrational study without independent replication.
Multi-cancer early detection blood test

Episode sensitivity of 39.3% across all cancers with 99.6% specificity in PATHFINDER 2. The most defensible blood-based addition available, with mortality benefit still unproven.

Baseline evidence grade B: Consistent evidence of benefit, but from trials with surrogate endpoints, single trials, or strong longitudinal cohorts.
Cardiopulmonary exercise test

Cardiorespiratory fitness carries one of the strongest mortality associations of anything measurable, with no observed upper limit of benefit. The best-evidenced measurement in the category.

Baseline evidence grade C: Mechanistically plausible and widely used, but no trial evidence of net benefit in the screened population.
Genomics and gene panels

Plausible and widely sold, with no trial evidence of net benefit from untargeted sequencing in asymptomatic adults. Best value as a once-in-a-lifetime measurement rather than a recurring one.

How to read the price

Every private programme sells an addition to something you already have. In Germany that something is Check-up 35, free every three years from age 35, covering blood pressure, fasting glucose, a full lipid panel, urinalysis and a consultation. Those are the cheapest high-yield measurements in medicine and a meaningful share of people buying private programmes have never used them.

So the question is never whether Fountain Life beats nothing. It is what the increment buys.

Against the free baseline
Check-up 35 €0
Fountain LifeCORE (n/p)

1 of 2 comparable entries cost less to enter.

What to ask before booking

  1. What is the total price, in writing, before the consultation? Fountain Life does not publish a price page, so the figure on this page comes from a third party and may not match your quote.
  2. What proportion of your patients receive an imaging finding that requires further investigation, and who owns the follow-up if mine does? Roughly a third of scanned people leave with something critical or unresolved, and the apparatus around the scan matters more than the scan.
  3. Will I get a full ergospirometry report with a ventilatory threshold, and will it be repeated so I can see whether training changed it? Fitness is the rare measurement that is both strongly prognostic and reliably modifiable, which makes the second test as valuable as the first.
  4. If a finding points somewhere you do not treat, who am I referred to? Diagnosis and therapeutics sitting in one organisation is convenient, and it also keeps more of the interpretive judgement inside the business providing the treatment.
  5. What is the median total invoice, as opposed to the advertised programme price? Additional recommendations after the initial consultation are normal in this category and are not usually in the headline figure.

Profile

Nine attributes across three axes, recorded and not scored. We grade tests, never companies, so there is no total here and no winner: the axes pull against each other, and no provider in the Index holds all nine. A programme priced for annual repetition will not publish deep tier structures, and one that declines routine imaging cannot lead on imaging volume. Read it as a description of what this provider is.

What you can verify before contact

Checkable from the provider’s own site without medical knowledge, and without speaking to anybody.

  • Price published before contact : no

    Figures here come from a named third party

  • Per-tier contents published : no

    Contents not broken down by tier

  • Procedure volume published : no

Clinical structure

How the medicine is organised. These are descriptions rather than merits: a conservative imaging policy and a comprehensive one are both defensible positions.

  • Physician-led throughout : yes
  • Diagnosis independent of treatment : no

    Diagnosis and therapeutics in one organisation

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing : yes

    The measurement we grade highest, grade B

  • No routine whole-body imaging : no

    Routine imaging offered, which we grade C

Access

Whether the programme is realistically repeatable, and where you can get it.

  • Priced for annual repetition : no

    A baseline purchase rather than an annual habit

  • Available in more than one market : no

    US only

Nearest comparable programmes
Biograph San Francisco, US $7,500

Same model, closest entry prices. Compare within kind before across it: a per-visit fee and a per-week residential rate are not the same number. The full table →

Questions this article answers

How much does Fountain Life cost?
Fountain Life charges CORE (n/p) per year, rising to ~$19,500–21,500 for its highest published tier. The provider does not publish a price page, so this comes from a named secondary source, checked 2026-09-07, and may differ from the quote you receive.
What is included in a Fountain Life programme?
Sold as CORE, APEX and APEX Family annual memberships, with APEX reported at roughly $19,500 to $21,500 a year. The most extensive diagnostic bundle in the Index and the most expensive. Biomarker count: 200+.
Is Fountain Life worth it compared with a free statutory check?
Check-up 35 (statutory, Germany) is free and covers the cheap high-yield basics: Physical examination, blood pressure, fasting glucose, total cholesterol with LDL, HDL and triglycerides, urinalysis, a one-off hepatitis B and C screen, and a consultation. What Fountain Life adds at CORE (n/p) is the layer the statutory system does not fund at all. The significant addition is a cardiopulmonary exercise test, which carries the highest standing grade we award to anything in preventive screening: cardiorespiratory fitness has one of the strongest mortality associations of any measurable variable, with no observed upper limit of benefit, and it appears in fewer than half the programmes we catalogue. Our standing grade for each of these is on this page, so you can see which part of the increment the evidence supports before you decide.
Does Fountain Life include a whole-body MRI?
Yes, in at least one published tier. Check which tier you are quoted, since providers commonly gate imaging behind higher tiers. Our assessment of whole-body MRI screening is grade C: no randomised trial has shown a mortality benefit in asymptomatic adults, and roughly a third of scanned people receive a critical or unresolved incidental finding. A programme that reads the scan alongside bloods, function testing and a physician review on the same day handles that better than an imaging centre working alone.
Who is Fountain Life best for?
Somebody whose specific question matches what this programme measures. Whoever you are, use your statutory entitlement first: it is free, it covers the measurements with the longest outcome record, and a meaningful share of people buying private programmes have never had it.
How long does a Fountain Life appointment take?
It is delivered across more than one appointment rather than a single day, so allow for scheduling separate imaging and laboratory visits.
What are the alternatives to Fountain Life?
On the same model and at the nearest prices: Biograph in San Francisco, US from $7,500. Compare within kind before across it, because a per-visit fee and a per-week residential rate are not the same number. The full comparison across all 16 providers we catalogue is in the Baseline Index.
Where is Fountain Life located?
Fountain Life is based in Naples, US. It operates as annual membership.

This is a factual record rather than a review. We do not score or rank providers. If a figure here is wrong, send the published page that contradicts it and we will correct it and log the correction. Corrections policy.