vanillabean

Thanks. I stopped by GoHealth in Mill Valley and will sign up when the time comes.

docbert

For most countries the requirement is within 72 hours of departure, which would put you at Friday morning for the test, not over the weekend.

vanillabean

True. Unfortunately my destination is Denmark, which is at 48 hours, but otherwise like the US, "the COVID-19 test (PCR or antigen) must be taken within 3 days of the initial flight departure, and connections cannot be longer than 24 hours” ("within 3 days of" meaning no earlier than 3 calendar days before the day of).

SamirD

My wife's flight had the same requirement so using the expensive place we found was good for piece of mind since the results came back quick.

RedPanda5

i'm going to hawaii soon and have narrowed it down to going to gohealth urgent care. they are an approved safe travel testing partner and offer 15min PCR results, and its free w/ most major insurance providers

EDIT: Just got tested today and as promised got results w/i 15 mins and successfully uploaded and confirmed negative test on hawaii safe travels site

returnoftheyeti

Preparing for a 4th of July trip to France. As we are flying SFO-AMS-CDG on Friday the 2nd, it sounds like our best option is the testing at the SFO airport from Dignety


Its not cheap, but it solves any timing issues...

https://www.gohealthuc.com/bayarea/s...vid-19-testing

estnet

I'm confused why you say it is free with insurance
"Billing insurance is only available to SFO employees. All other passengers will be required to pay $225 on-site by credit card." and they charge a total of $261 including an evaluation fee "The total cost for the evaluation and test is $261 and must be paid prior to your test"
I don't think many insurance will pay this amount

So the above post said it was free with insurance but you seem to indicate that what I quoted is more likely???

RedPanda5

I didn't get tested at the airport, did it at the location on market street in SF:
https://www.gohealthuc.com/bayarea/s.../market-street

They have a lot of locations, just make sure it offers the 15 min rapid result




No upfront payment was required

estnet

Thanks so much for the clarification -

RedPanda5

Also it should be covered as they bill it as a diagnostic test: "Diagnosis: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to covid-19 Z20.822"

Quote directly from my insurance:
"We’re covering the full cost of diagnostic tests for COVID-19, as long as the test is ordered by a health care provider and meets CDC guidelines."

nnn

Same here. We have done a number of rapid tests at the Castro location, and haven’t been billed. It seems the SFO location is treated differently for costs/billing.

SamirD

This is what we planned on for a trip in April SFO-DOH-BLR and SFO-FRA-BLR (wife and I were on separate itineraries) and we went the day before the flight for the tests and there were big signs stating that therse were NOT RT-PCR tests. They helped my wife find out what testing was available for such a short window and there was a testing site near the airport that gave us results in time, but at a cost of $399/ea. If we would have known this, it would have made more sense to go to the San Jose airport and get testing done there 2 days in advance at a cost of $150. I'm not sure how much of this has changed, but definitely do your homework as I saw a lot of empty seats on my flight from whole families that were denied boarding at SFO due to the incorrect test results and the inability to get them quick enough at the last second.

returnoftheyeti

https://www.dc3therapeutics.com/sche...ovid19-testing

Another option.

SamirD

Has anyone used their Kaiser tests for an international trip? According to a little paragraph at the end of my test report: "Kaiser Permanente COVID testing methods involving viral genome amplification, also known as nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) (including RT-PCR), meet both Kaiser Permanente internal laboratory PCR sensitivity requirements and the requirements of the CDC Order signed January 25, 2021, with respect to viral testing. These tests meet requirements for domestic and international travel." but aside from that RT-PCR isn't noted anywhere else on the results.

docbert

Yes, to Australia which needs a PCR test.

My results didn't even have the sentence you've quoted that mention both PCR and international travel, it just had mention of NAAT. After I received my results and discovered that, I called Kaiser and they setup a phone appointment with a doctor (not mine, as he wasn't available) who called me back about 5 minutes later. Described the issue to him, and he send me a 2-line letter stating that the test was a PCR test and that my results were negative.

That said, I didn't need it. United accepted the print-out of the test results from the Kaiser website without issue, and I didn't need to show the backup letter. If I was doing it again, especially now that it has that extra sentence mentioning both PCR (twice) and travel, I wouldn't bother with the letter.