Estimated cost of having hormones checked?

Call the pharmacy and your insurance. Each lab will have its own fees.

All labs are $0 for us. Some require orionauth (like genetic tests as those cost $5000-15,000)

My doctor charges $40, and its done once a year. He doesn't take insurance, so that's the whole thing. He does a hormone, thyroid, etc.

No one can really tell you, it depends on if your insurance covers it or not and what the lab will charge you. It SHOULD be covered if menopause and HRT are in the works and the right codes are used, but I don't know for sure what your plan covers or excludes.

If they cover it but you still need to meet your deductible, the lab is only allowed to charge you whatever your insurance company contracted amount is.

Or, you might have a lab copay.
You'll need to check with your insurance to see what is covered and the allowed amount paid by your insurance. If they don't cover it at all (which would be highly unusual), then you will need to check with the lab to see what the cost is.

They might, but most office staff does not have the time to check with every single insurance provider for every patient to figure out what might or might not be covered. That's really on the patient, unfortunately. It USED to work that if the doctor felt you needed it, it was covered. Those days are long gone and insurance covers less and less.

It's true that not everything is covered any longer, but my experience has been that providers affiliated with larger hospital systems at least can generally put what is being prescribed into the computer database and find out what it will cost the patient through their insurance.

More and more, of course, providers here are leaving those large hospital systems and going concierge or setting up a private practice that simply doesn't take insurance.

I first did hormone testing with a local health clinic (a test involving labs/bloodwork) and that one was $50 (not covered).

I then found a gynecologist who would test them for me. Her test (a spit test that had to be done on a specific day in my cycle that she felt was more reliable for women) was not covered by my insurance either, so I had to pay out of pocket and it was $130. 

I went with the results from my Gyn's test and she prescribed me a HRT compound cream that I use once daily on days 1-25 of my cycle. Each refill lasts me about 2 months and costs me $55. 

Because her test isn't covered and is more expensive, after the initial test she doesn't test again unless she thinks it's absolutely necessary (or if I request it myself). Instead she adjusts my prescription based on how my symptoms are being managed. So far most of them are being managed pretty well. We've had to make a couple of adjustments over the course of this last year, but nothing major.

Jen