Ulta Lab Tests Review 2026: Prices vs Quest, Fees and Legitimacy

Ulta Lab Tests is a Scottsdale, Arizona company that sells lab tests online. You pick tests, its network of healthcare professionals issues the order, and you give blood at a patient service center. Below: prices against Quest, the fee, what its panels measure, who reviews results, the Hawaii order, states and refunds. The scorecard is on our Ulta Lab Tests review page, and every service is ranked on the best blood tests page.

Ulta vs Quest: the same lab, a different price

Ulta's tests run at Quest, so the fair comparison is Quest's own store. Prices read October 31, 2026, on each seller's test page.

The last row is our arithmetic from the prices above. Ulta's FAQ says a fee is charged for collecting your specimen, that the standard amount applies unless a center shows a higher one when you pick it, and that the fee is added at checkout (Ulta FAQ). Some of our older tables, such as the core-panel totals, list Ulta without this fee, so add it when you compare; the Lp(a) cost guide already includes it. Quest labels its own fee "Physician Service Fee" next to every price, for example on its CBC page (Quest CBC). Ulta's pages also show a struck-through reference price beside each Ulta price; we use the price you pay.

What Ulta's panels measure

Ulta counts every reportable CBC and urinalysis line separately, so its 117 becomes 77 once percent and absolute white-cell counts are merged and calculated values set aside. The Comprehensive panel includes thyroid antibodies, reverse T3 and fibrinogen, which few others do, but neither panel includes ApoB, Lp(a), insulin or testosterone. Buying ApoB and Lp(a) singly on top is cheap at Ulta. Marker by marker, the panels are on our biomarker table.

Who orders, who runs it, who reads it

Ulta says you do not need to see a physician: orders go through its healthcare professional network, and its FAQ says all specimens are analyzed at national CLIA-certified laboratories (Ulta FAQ). Its own FAQ does not name the lab; our research and its test pages point to Quest. Nobody at Ulta reviews your results with you. The FAQ recommends discussing them with your physician and says Ulta will alert you to a critical value. If you want a clinician to go through results, a membership or a store such as Request A Test or Personalabs includes that.

Is Ulta Lab Tests legit?

Yes, as a store: it sells real Quest-run tests and has a 4.6 Trustpilot score from about 150 reviews (Trustpilot). One regulator action is on record. On January 6, 2026, Hawaii's Office of Health Care Assurance issued a Notice of Violation and Order against Ulta's CEO "for violating state law by illegally providing direct-to-consumer laboratory testing" (Hawaii DOH). The order says specimens were collected "without a request made by an authorized person" at three affiliated Hawaii sites, and that Ulta Lab Tests, LLC "is not a clinical laboratory certified under federal law" (Hawaii DOH). That last point is about Ulta itself, the store, not the Quest labs that run the tests. Ulta's how-it-works page now lists Hawaii alongside New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island as states where it cannot test. Our is Ulta Lab Tests legit page tracks the record.

States, refunds and payment

• States: not New York, New Jersey or Rhode Island, which its FAQ calls the states where direct access testing is prohibited by law, and not Hawaii (Ulta FAQ). See ordering your own blood test and our Hawaii page.
• Refunds: cancel before your specimen is collected for a refund or credit; nothing once blood is drawn.
• Payment: major cards and most HSA debit cards, per its FAQ. Our HSA and FSA guide covers every service.

Our verdict

Ulta Lab Tests is the cheapest way we found to buy common Quest-run tests one by one, even with its draw fee: five basics cost about half what Quest's own store charges. It suits people who know which tests they want and will take results to their own clinician. It is not for residents of the four excluded states, and it gives no results review. For Walk-In Lab as the alternative, see Ulta vs Walk-In Lab; for every store's single-test prices, see blood test cost without insurance and our price page.