Aethera Diagnostics · with SelfHealth
Numbers first, and a clinician who reads them.
Testing is the cheapest part of medicine and the part most often done badly. Done properly it tells you what to ignore, which is usually most of it.
The panel
Our core panel is run by our diagnostics partner and covers the areas where an abnormal result actually changes what we would do: hormones, metabolic markers, cardiovascular risk, inflammation, vitamin D, and kidney and liver function.
What is not on it. We will tell you plainly which markers the panel does not include so you can ask your own doctor for them if you want them. A panel that quietly implies it covers everything is how people end up falsely reassured.
You can self-collect at home with a guided kit, or have a clinician draw it on a concierge visit. Either way the result goes into your chart.
Joining the online clinic registers you with an Aethera medical team. When your results come back they are already in the system, and a clinician reviews them with you and talks through your options. You do not have to go and find someone to interpret them, and you are not handed a PDF and left there.
Imaging
We order medical imaging anywhere in the United States.
An Aethera physician licensed in your state can order imaging and send the order to a facility near you. That covers MRI, CT, ultrasound, DEXA and coronary calcium scoring. You go to the facility, the images come back to us, and a clinician goes through the report with you.
This is cash-pay, like everything else here. Self-pay imaging is often dramatically cheaper than the billed rate, and we will tell you the price before you book.
Imaging is ordered when there is a reason to order it. We do not sell whole-body scans as a product. Scanning an asymptomatic person finds things that were never going to hurt them, and chasing those findings carries its own risk — that is a documented harm, not a disclaimer.
Paying for diagnostics
Many of our services can be paid for with an HSA or FSA card, and some cannot. Eligibility is set by IRS rules and decided by your plan administrator, not by us. Cosmetic treatments are specifically excluded. We mark each service with what we understand its status to be, we give you an itemised receipt with the codes your administrator needs, and we will write a Letter of Medical Necessity where one genuinely applies.