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Idea is great.

But I feel pricing model needs a revisit.

For patients with some serious ailments this is all fine but what about less serious issues like..a person with allergies, thyroid, migraine etc. These are kinds of things which bother people but still not enough to spend 5000 for analysis.

Probably a profile based pricing is a good idea? Just a thought.

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A person with allergies, migraines, etc. is almost certainly better served by going to their general practitioner for a $20 copay.

Well I am not saying no options available. This service says they use research, data analysis etc. I am sure 20 copay will not get you that.

So my point was to pay more that 20 but less than given minimum 5000.

An allergist is likely to have plenty of access to research, data analysis, etc. about their specialty, and cost significantly less than $5,000.

$5,000 would buy me consultations with 250 allergists, who'd likely be basing their conclusions on the same sort of research available to the health researchers at MetaMed, as well as it being their actual medical specialty.

The price is based on the amount of work that goes into each report. While people might like to get detailed information about their allergies, and would like to pay $200 for it, we can't review medical records and the literature for that little. Researcher time costs more than that.

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