Lab Card
Voluntary program lets members get lab tests covered at 100%.*
When you use your Lab Card at eligible locations, GEHA pays outpatient laboratory testing at 100 percent. With Lab Card, you pay nothing – no deductible, no copay, no coinsurance.^
Each non-Medicare Standard Option and High Option member* will receive a Lab Card following enrollment in the medical plan. However, Lab Card is an optional program. Members who choose not to use Lab Card will continue to pay coinsurance for covered outpatient lab work.
Lab Card covers most outpatient lab work included in your GEHA medical plan, including:
- Blood testing, such as cholesterol testing
- Urinalysis
- Pap smears
- Biopsies
- Cultures, such as throat cultures
Lab Card does not cover:
- Lab work ordered during hospitalization
- Lab work ordered on an emergency basis
- Fertility testing
- Bone marrow studies
- Spinal fluid tests
- Mammography
- X-rays
- Imaging
- Dental work
- Lab work not covered by the plan
- Other non-laboratory work
*GEHA Standard Option and High Option members with Medicare are not eligible for the Lab Card program and will not receive Lab Cards. The Medicare program covers outpatient laboratory testing.
**Physicians willing to collect for Lab Card in their offices must clearly mark "Lab Card" on the requisition and continue to call 800.646.7788 to request a Lab Card pick-up. If a physician does not collect for Lab Card in his or her office, the GEHA medical plan member may request the test orders from that physician and go to a Lab Card collection site.
ONLY sites listed on the Lab Card website are available to collect for Lab Card. If a site is not listed on that website, that site may not collect for Lab Card. Collection site information, including locations, hours and any special instructions, is updated daily.
^GEHA supplemental benefits are neither offered nor guaranteed under contract with the FEHB, but are made available to all enrollees and family members who become members of a GEHA medical plan. For information on year-round savings for GEHA dental members, visit Savings for GEHA dental members.