Tuesday, 8 September 2026 Independent · Evidence graded Index Q3 2026
Baseline
Preventive medicine, examined.
Outpatient day programme · San Francisco, US

Q Bio

not published, per visit. Serving US.

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

What it is

MRI plus 120-plus biomarkers, a 163-gene panel and wearable data, closing with a 45-minute physician review. Around $80m raised. No list price is published, so a prospective patient cannot compare it against anything without booking a consultation first.

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 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.

Not offered: Multi-cancer early detection blood test, Cardiopulmonary exercise test.

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 Q Bio beats nothing. It is what the increment buys.

Against the free baseline
Check-up 35 €0
Q Bionot published

3 of 4 comparable entries cost less to enter.

What to ask before booking

  1. What is the total price, in writing, before the consultation? Q Bio 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. Is any form of cardiopulmonary exercise testing available as an add-on? It carries the strongest mortality association of anything measurable here and is absent from over half the programmes we catalogue.
  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 : no
  • 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
Everlab Melbourne, AU A$3,500
YEARS Berlin, DE €1,900
Preventicum Essen, DE ~€1,400

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 Q Bio cost?
Q Bio charges not published per visit. 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 Q Bio programme?
MRI plus 120-plus biomarkers, a 163-gene panel and wearable data, closing with a 45-minute physician review. Around $80m raised. Biomarker count: 120+. Delivered as a single day.
Is Q Bio 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 Q Bio adds at not published is the layer the statutory system does not fund at all. At the entry tier that means whole-body mri and genomics and gene panels. 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 Q Bio 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 Q Bio 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 Q Bio 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.
What are the alternatives to Q Bio?
On the same model and at the nearest prices: Everlab in Melbourne, AU from A$3,500, YEARS in Berlin, DE from €1,900 and Preventicum in Essen, DE from ~€1,400. 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 Q Bio located?
Q Bio is based in San Francisco, US. 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.