Guardant Health pricing
Shield's Medicare rate of $1,495 under advanced diagnostic laboratory test status is payer context, not a price; the Shield site separately publishes the same figure as its cash price. Shield is covered by Medicare, UnitedHealthcare, VA Community Care and TRICARE, and the company offers cost estimates before testing. No list price is published for the therapy selection or recurrence tests.
How Guardant Health pricing works
- Pricing model
- Per test. Shield carries a published cash price of $1,495 where insurance does not fully cover it, with zero out of pocket for eligible Medicare fee for service patients. Guardant360, Guardant Reveal and the hereditary panel are billed through Medicare and commercial payer contracts with no published price; InfinityAI data products are sold to drug developers under separate agreements.
- Implementation
- None for ordering practices. EMR integration is offered, with a stated go live of as little as six weeks for Epic sites already on Aura.
- Business associate agreement
- Covered entity laboratory; HIPAA notice of privacy practices published (last updated 9 October 2025). No provider contracting instrument published.
Guardant Health pricing against its alternatives
Published prices for Guardant Health and the products closest to it. Each figure is as the vendor publishes it, in its own currency and billing unit.
- GGuardant Health$1,495 Shield cash price per test
- FFoundation MedicineNo published price
- GGRAIL$949 per test (list price)
- FFreenomeNo published price
- CCaris Life SciencesNo published price
- MMyriad GeneticsMost eligible patients pay $0; financial assistance tiers of $0, $100 or $249
- 44baseCareNo published price
- VVeracyteNo published price
- AAmbry GeneticsNot published; 9 in 10 patients pay $0
Guardant Health pricing, answered
How much does Guardant Health cost?
Guardant Health's published price is $1,495 Shield cash price per test. Shield's Medicare rate of $1,495 under advanced diagnostic laboratory test status is payer context, not a price; the Shield site separately publishes the same figure as its cash price. Shield is covered by Medicare, UnitedHealthcare, VA Community Care and TRICARE, and the company offers cost estimates before testing.
Does Guardant Health charge an implementation fee?
None for ordering practices. EMR integration is offered, with a stated go live of as little as six weeks for Epic sites already on Aura.
Does Guardant Health offer a business associate agreement?
Covered entity laboratory; HIPAA notice of privacy practices published (last updated 9 October 2025). No provider contracting instrument published.