Foundation Medicine pricing
FoundationOne CDx has national Medicare coverage for qualifying patients and financial assistance may be available; no list price or patient responsibility figure is published. Patients are told their expected out of pocket cost after the sample arrives, and payment plans are offered. Medicare coverage sets what the payer pays the laboratory, not a price. FoundationInsights and data access rates are not published.
How Foundation Medicine pricing works
- Pricing model
- Laboratory tests billed to payers, with national Medicare and Medicare Advantage coverage for qualifying patients and financial assistance for out of pocket costs; FoundationInsights and data access sold to drug developers under agreements.
- Business associate agreement
- Covered entity laboratory under its Notice of Privacy Practices (modified 1 June 2026); no customer business associate agreement applies to ordered tests.
Foundation Medicine pricing against its alternatives
Published prices for Foundation Medicine and the products closest to it. Each figure is as the vendor publishes it, in its own currency and billing unit.
- FFoundation MedicineNo published price
- GGuardant Health$1,495 Shield cash price per test
- SSOPHiA GENETICSNo published price
- 44baseCareNo published price
- MMyriad GeneticsMost eligible patients pay $0; financial assistance tiers of $0, $100 or $249
- IInvitaeNo published price
- AAmbry GeneticsNot published; 9 in 10 patients pay $0
- CCaris Life SciencesNo published price
- BBostonGeneNo published price
Foundation Medicine pricing, answered
How much does Foundation Medicine cost?
Foundation Medicine does not publish a price. FoundationOne CDx has national Medicare coverage for qualifying patients and financial assistance may be available; no list price or patient responsibility figure is published. Patients are told their expected out of pocket cost after the sample arrives, and payment plans are offered.
Does Foundation Medicine offer a business associate agreement?
Covered entity laboratory under its Notice of Privacy Practices (modified 1 June 2026); no customer business associate agreement applies to ordered tests.