Tuesday, 8 September 2026 Independent · Evidence graded Index Q3 2026
Baseline
Preventive medicine, examined.
Outpatient day programme · Essen, DE

Preventicum

~€1,400 to ~€2,000, per visit. Serving DE.

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

What it is

One of the older German private check-up centres, working through a specialist physician model. Reported packages run roughly €1,400 to €2,000, with a Basis Check covering internal examination, laboratory diagnostics, 4D ultrasound and rest and stress ECG, and Basis Plus adding MRI of two organs where clinically indicated. Organ-targeted rather than whole-body imaging, which is a defensible position on the evidence and a narrower one commercially.

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 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.

Not offered: Whole-body MRI, Multi-cancer early detection blood test, Genomics and gene panels.

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 Preventicum beats nothing. It is what the increment buys.

Against the free baseline
Check-up 35 €0
Preventicum~€1,400

Least expensive of the 4 comparable entries in the Index.

What to ask before booking

  1. What is the total price, in writing, before the consultation? Preventicum does not publish a price page, so the figure on this page comes from a third party and may not match your quote.
  2. Which cardiovascular and metabolic assessment is included, and how does it map onto the guideline? A programme covering functional capacity and vascular status is doing serious work; one leaning on a lipid panel is repeating your statutory check.
  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. What happens after the report: is there a named physician who owns the follow-up, or does the responsibility return to my own doctor?
  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 : yes
  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing : yes

    The measurement we grade highest, grade B

  • No routine whole-body imaging : yes

    Avoids the incidental-finding burden of routine imaging

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

    DE only

Nearest comparable programmes
YEARS Berlin, DE €1,900
Everlab Melbourne, AU A$3,500
Q Bio San Francisco, US not published

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 Preventicum cost?
Preventicum charges ~€1,400 per visit, rising to ~€2,000 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 Preventicum programme?
One of the older German private check-up centres, working through a specialist physician model. Reported packages run roughly €1,400 to €2,000, with a Basis Check covering internal examination, laboratory diagnostics, 4D ultrasound and rest and stress ECG, and Basis Plus adding MRI of two organs where clinically indicated. Biomarker count: not published. Delivered as a single day.
Is Preventicum 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 Preventicum adds at ~€1,400 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 Preventicum include a whole-body MRI?
No. Preventicum does not offer whole-body MRI at any published tier. Since our assessment of whole-body MRI screening is grade C, meaning no randomised evidence of mortality benefit in asymptomatic adults, its absence is not a shortcoming.
Who is Preventicum best for?
Somebody who wants one comprehensive baseline read by a physician in a single sitting, rather than a sequence of separate appointments. That structure matters most around the point in life where family history stops being abstract, and for anyone who has avoided medical contact for a decade. 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 Preventicum appointment take?
It is delivered as a single day. A single-day format means the imaging, laboratory work and functional testing are read together rather than across separate appointments, which is the main practical argument for this model.
Will German health insurance cover Preventicum?
Privately insured patients and those with supplementary cover can often recover part of the cost, depending on the policy and on whether individual items are billable under the GOÄ fee schedule. Statutory insurees pay out of pocket for anything beyond the Check-up 35 entitlement, because those items are individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen, or IGeL. Ask the provider for an itemised GOÄ estimate before booking rather than after, since that is the document your insurer will want.
What are the alternatives to Preventicum?
On the same model and at the nearest prices: YEARS in Berlin, DE from €1,900, Everlab in Melbourne, AU from A$3,500 and Q Bio in San Francisco, US from not published. 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 Preventicum located?
Preventicum is based in Essen, DE. It operates as outpatient day programme, delivered in a single day.

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.