How to Get a Testosterone Test at Quest Diagnostics or Labcorp: Three Ways to Order, What Each Costs, and the Test Code on Your Requisition

Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp are the two laboratories that run almost every testosterone test in the United States, but their patient service centers only draw blood against an order. Who writes that order decides what you pay. A doctor writes one for free as part of a visit; the test is then billed to insurance as diagnostic (copay and deductible, never the free preventive bucket) or charged at the lab's self-pay rate. The lab's own consumer site — Quest Health or Labcorp OnDemand — sells the order and the test together for $69. An online lab service sells the same order and the same test for less: through TestWell, total testosterone is $33.99 drawn at Quest or $43.99 drawn at Labcorp, plus one $6 lab processing fee for the order, with a licensed physician authorizing the requisition and results in 1–3 business days. You walk into the same building either way, hand over the same requisition, and the same tube goes to the same LC-MS/MS instrument. The only things that differ are the price and how long you wait for someone to write the order.

Same patient service center, same draw, same assay. The route determines the price and the paperwork.

The one $6 fee is per order, not per test, so adding a CMP or a lipid panel to the same draw adds only its sticker price. Walk-ins are accepted at most Quest and Labcorp locations; booking a slot on the lab's site skips the wait.

The test TestWell orders at Quest is test code 15983, "Testosterone, Total, MS" — Quest's LC-MS/MS (mass spectrometry) total testosterone, CPT 84403. That is the string you will see on the requisition and on the result report. Quest's catalog also lists an immunoassay version of total testosterone; the mass-spectrometry method is the one the Endocrine Society guideline is written around for confirming a low value, and it is the one Quest Health sells for $69 as well.

Price for the same code at the same Quest patient service center: $69 on Quest Health (product 15983M, physician order included) versus $33.99 plus the $6 fee through TestWell. Quest Health's order is written by its partner physician network; TestWell's by a licensed physician in its own network — in both cases you do not see or pay a doctor. The free-plus-total version at Quest is Testosterone, Free & Total ($54.99) and the three-marker version with SHBG is test 37073, Testosterone, Free (Dialysis), Total (MS) and SHBG ($69.99).

At Labcorp the test TestWell orders is 070001, "Testosterone, Total, LC/MS" — Labcorp's mass-spectrometry total testosterone, also CPT 84403. Labcorp's own cost for this assay is higher than Quest's, which is why the Labcorp-drawn price through TestWell is $43.99 rather than $33.99; you choose the lab at checkout and the requisition is written for that lab.

Labcorp OnDemand sells a Total Testosterone Test for $69 (it carries a different Labcorp test number, 004226, from the LC/MS test above) and a Comprehensive Testosterone Test — total, free and SHBG — for $159. The equivalent three-marker order through TestWell is $69.99 plus the $6 fee. If you are in a Labcorp-only area, the $49.99 all-in Labcorp route is still $19 under OnDemand's single test; if both labs are nearby, Quest is the cheaper draw for this particular test.

Quest Health and Labcorp OnDemand do not take self-ordered draws in New York or New Jersey, so the consumer-site route is closed there. TestWell orders in those two states route to BioReference patient service centers instead, where total testosterone is $45.99 plus the $6 fee (BioReference test K630-4, "Testosterone, Total/Free (LC/MS)") — the same physician-authorized requisition, the same portal, results on the same timeline.

1. Order online. Add Testosterone, Total to your cart and pick Quest or Labcorp at checkout. The lab finder and the city location pages list every patient service center with hours and phone numbers, so pick the lab that has a convenient draw site before you pay.
2. A physician authorizes the order. A licensed physician in TestWell's network reviews and signs the requisition, usually within minutes. It arrives by email as a PDF and sits in your account; you do not need to print it.
3. Go in the morning. Testosterone peaks in the morning and falls through the day; the Endocrine Society guideline calls for the draw between 7 and 10 a.m. Most Quest and Labcorp locations open by 7 or 7:30 — the location pages list each site's hours. No fasting is required for testosterone alone — fast only if you added a glucose, insulin or lipid test to the order.
4. At the desk. Show the requisition on your phone and a photo ID. The phlebotomist checks the test code against the order, draws one tube, and you are done in about ten minutes.
5. Results. Total testosterone posts to your TestWell portal in 1–3 business days with the reviewed reference range; free testosterone and SHBG take 3–5. A low result is confirmed on a second morning sample on a different day before anyone treats it — plan on the second $39.99 draw rather than being surprised by it.

Total testosterone is the first test and, for most people, the only one needed to answer "is it low?" Add free testosterone and SHBG when the total is borderline or when you have a condition that moves SHBG — obesity, diabetes, thyroid or liver disease, older age — because a normal total can hide a low free level and vice versa. The free vs total testosterone guide walks through the patterns, and the free testosterone calculator works the number from total, SHBG and albumin. If you are monitoring testosterone therapy, order total testosterone with a CBC for hematocrit (and PSA over 40) in one order to pay the fee once. The testosterone test cost guide compares every route in more detail.