Covid-19 Test Info

Covid-19 testing at Epic Urgent & Family Care

EUFC remains committed to Palatine and the surrounding community during the COVID-19 pandemic, including offering COVID-19 testing. We are also open for routine medical care including employer services while maintaining all safety precautions.

Type of COVID-19 virus testings available at Epic Urgent Care

Epic urgent care is ready to serve chicago area community better by offering all different kind of Covid test available

Gold standard COVID-19 PCR test -- nasopharyngeal swab will be sent to a reference lab. Results are available in 2-4 days.
Abbott ID NOW molecular PCR test (Rapid test)-- nasal swab will be tested on site. Results are available within 24 hrs
COVID-19 Antigen test, BD Veritor Plus (Rapid test) -- nasal swab will be tested on site. Results are available within 24 hrs
Type of rapid test (Abbott ID NOW vs BD Veritor) will be decided based on availability of test kits as there is constant supply shortage

What is the difference between SARS CoV-2 Antigen test and Molecular test (also known as PCR test)?
Both detect active SARS- CoV2 infection.

	Molecular Test	Antigen Test
Also Known as	Rapid covid test, Nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT), RT-PCR test	Rapid covid test
How the sample is taken…	Nasal or Nasopharyngeal swab	Nasal swab
What it shows…	Detect Viral RNA	Specific protein on virus surface
How long it takes toget results	1-2 days depends on labs reporting time	< 24 hrs- same day result
Sensitivity	High	Moderate**
Sensitivity	High	High

**Antigen tests are more likely to miss an active coronavirus infection compared to molecular tests. Your health care provider may order a molecular test if your antigen test shows a negative result but you have symptoms of COVID-19.

Abbott ID NOW sensitivity is91%, specificity is 100%, PPV is 100% and NPV is 99.6% (read more)
BD Veritor Plus sensitivity is 84%, specificity is 100%, PPV is 100% and NPV is 97.5% (read more)
Sensitivity measures the proportion of positives that are correctly identified (e.g., the percentage of sick people who are correctly identified as having some illness).
Specificity measures the proportion of negatives that are correctly identified (e.g., the percentage of healthy people who are correctly identified as not having some illness).
The positive predictive value (PPV) is the probability that following a positive test result, that individual will truly have that specific disease.
The negative predictive value (NPV) is the probability that following a negative test result, that individual will truly not have that specific disease.

Where would I come for Covid Test?
Epic urgent care has testing booths set up in the clinic’s back parking area. You will be assigned testing time during your virtual consult with our providers. You will park your car either in the front or back parking area and will go to the testing booth. You need to present your ID at the testing booth. Our staff will perform a nasal swab for you and will provide written discharge instruction. We may ask asymptomatic patients to come inside the clinic for their swab.

COVID-19 Test Results - FAQs

How do I get my COVID-19 PCR test results?

Your COVID-19 test result will be available in 2-4 days
You will receive an email from our HIPPA compliant patient portal. Email will come from "noreply@healthdataexchange.com". Please follow directions in email and create a portal account while you receive your result. You can download your test results from the portal.
If you have used the same email address for multiple family members, you will NOT be able to get all results. In that case, you will receive a HIPPA compliant email from our clinic email (info@epichealthsystems.com). You will need to create an account on HIPPA compliant server to retrieve the results. Please specify that you are using the same email address to our staff.
If you have not received results within 5 days, please email us at clinical@epichealthsystems.com with your name, date of birth and preferred email address to receive the copy of your results.

Is the cost of testing covered by my insurance?
As per our experience, office visit and gold standard PCR test is covered by insurance without any co-pays. However, we do not have knowledge of whether the rapid test (same day results) is covered by the insurance or not. Therefore Epic urgent care has a better self pay price for you.

Type of Test	Insurance status	Cost/Coverage
RT-PCR (reference lab)	Insured	Free with most insurances*
	Uninsured	$95
Rapid Covid test	Insured	Office visit charges through Insurance and $100 for test
	Uninsured	$220
Antibody	Insured	Free with most insurance*
	Uninsured	$220

*We highly encourage you to speak with your insurance company to find out coverage details

Travelling and Covid-19 testing
Most airlines and government offices require travellers to get an RT-PCR test which usually takes 2-4 days to get back from the reference lab (Ten Healthcare).

Antibody testing
EUFC offers antibody testing to help detect if you have been previously infected with COVID-19, causing you to develop antibodies to the virus. Your body produces antibodies in response to an infectious agent such as a virus to provide protection against the infection in the future.
We offer antibody testing through Quest Diagnostics which is highly sensitive (90%) i.e. reliable result and 99.6% specific i.e. very few false positives. Antibody test results are typically available in 2-4 days. You may read more about antibody testing here.

Safety Policy
We take the safety of our patients and our employees seriously. To safeguard everyone, we have taken number of measures including the following.

Universal masking
No visitor policy unless visiting patient is a minor or eldelrly needing assistance
All Covid-19 testing is done in outside tent or separate area of the clinic with separate entrance
Daily cleaning and sanitization of the clinic building

You may find all our safety policies here.