Syphilis cases in Herkimer County run about 78% lower than the US average, so getting tested in Ilion, New York is a sensible precaution whether for a one-time concern or regular check-ups. Public clinics keep costs down. Private labs prioritize speed. At-home kits trade a clinic visit for convenience. See the options below.
Available testing centers
9 testing options are listed for Ilion, NY. The nearest, Labcorp, is about 0.3 miles away. Compare community and public clinics, private labs, and at-home kits below.
Listings tagged Community health center are federally funded health centers and rural clinics that treat everyone regardless of insurance or ability to pay: required to bill on a sliding fee scale and provide confidential care, and in many states minors may consent to their own STI testing. A Title X tag flags centers funded for confidential family-planning services; confirm current participation when you call.
Source: CMS FQHC & Rural Health Clinic enrollment files (data.cms.gov), refreshed quarterly. Title X status reflects the latest OPA grantee list.
Mosaic Health Ilion, serving Ilion, anchors its STI services in a sliding-scale fee structure tied to income. Meaning cost adjusts to what patients can actually pay. Walk-ins are welcome for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia screening at this federally qualified health center.
Tests offered
Fees & payment
Mosaic Health Utica, in Utica, earns its federal qualification by anchoring care for people paying cash, between providers, or priced out of standard clinical fees. Sliding-scale costs adjust to income, and STI screening (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) is available without an appointment.
Tests offered
Fees & payment
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in Utica tests for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, herpes, and HIV on a sliding-scale fee with Medicaid and insurance accepted; appointments are required, and bacterial infections can be treated the same visit.
Interpretation services at this Utica location aren't patched in after the fact: they're built into the appointment structure itself, covering history-taking, test counseling, and treatment instructions directly through staff rather than routed separately, so clinical detail moves accurately in both directions throughout the visit.
As a Title X-designated clinic, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in Utica is legally required to keep family planning and STI services for minors confidential. That protection isn't a policy preference that can be overridden, it's a federal program requirement built into every appointment for young patients.
Without access to PrEP, PEP, and DoxyPEP in one place, a patient navigating prevention after an exposure or ongoing risk faces separate providers, separate waits, and gaps where coverage lapses. Planned Parenthood of Greater New York in Utica prescribes and monitors all three, including DoxyPEP for post-exposure bacterial prevention, at the same appointments used for testing and treatment.
Languages
English, Interpretation Services Available for Non-English Languages
Tests offered
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Care services
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Fees & payment
Listing verified Feb 2026 · Source: CDC NPIN + HRSA
Upstate Family Health Center, a family practice in Utica, runs every service (HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, and hepatitis A, B, and C testing) on a sliding scale with Medicaid and insurance accepted, and HIV and hepatitis B and C tests free; walk-ins welcome, same-visit treatment for bacterial STIs.
When cost creates a gap between a diagnosis and its treatment, infections persist and spread. At Upstate Family Health Center, no service generates a bill that stops someone from following through: testing, treatment, PrEP, PEP, and hepatitis management are all covered under free, sliding-scale, or insurance billing.
When a clinic can't communicate in a patient's own language, follow-up instructions get missed and treatment slips. Upstate Family Health Center provides care directly in American Sign Language, Haitian Creole, Chinese, and French (alongside Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese) so nothing critical gets lost between appointment and outcome.
Upstate Family Health Center prescribes and manages both PrEP, including the Truvada and Descovy regimens that require regular HIV and kidney monitoring, and PEP, keeping the required follow-up labs and refills within the same family practice rather than across separate providers.
Languages
American Sign Language, Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole, Interpretation Services Available for Non-English Languages, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
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Care services
Prevention services
Fees & payment
Listing verified Dec 2025 · Source: CDC NPIN + HRSA
A public safety-net rural health clinic about 31 miles from Ilion. Sliding-scale STD testing and care are typical here, call ahead to confirm the exact panel and pricing.
Tests offered
Free tool · not a clinic
Testing too soon can miss an infection. Enter the date of possible exposure to see the earliest a test can reliably detect each STI.
| Infection | Earliest reliable test | Conclusive after |
|---|---|---|
| Chlamydia | 7 days after exposure | 14 days after exposure |
| Gonorrhea | 7 days after exposure | 14 days after exposure |
| Trichomoniasis | 7 days after exposure | 28 days after exposure |
| HIV (NAT / RNA) | 10 days after exposure | 33 days after exposure |
| HIV (4th-gen Ag/Ab) | 18 days after exposure | 45 days after exposure |
| HIV (antibody) | 21 days after exposure | 84 days after exposure |
| Syphilis | 21 days after exposure | 42 days after exposure |
| Hepatitis B | 21 days after exposure | 42 days after exposure |
| Hepatitis C | 56 days after exposure | 77 days after exposure |
| Herpes (HSV) | 28 days after exposure | 112 days after exposure |
Guidance only, confirm timing with a clinician. A negative result before the conclusive date may need a repeat test.
Typical out-of-pocket ranges by option, actual cost depends on which tests you need.
Public / community clinic
Free HIV testing is common
Private lab (self-pay)
Never billed to insurance
At-home kit
Mailed to your door, private
Doctor / urgent care
Often $0 preventive with insurance
No centers match those filters. Clear the service-type filter or the opening-hours filters to see every center.
Every other option
Beyond the dedicated testing centers above: at-home kits by mail, hospital labs certified for STI testing, local clinicians who can order a panel during a regular visit, pharmacies for self-test kits and prescriptions, and online PrEP & treatment.
Test from home
The nearest testing center is less than a mile away; if you'd rather skip the trip, an at-home kit ships to Ilion, you collect the sample privately, and mail it back to a CLIA-certified lab. Results come online in days, with a clinician available if anything is positive. Same labs as a clinic, no waiting room, and you can read how accurate at-home STD tests are before you order.
Want a free option first? The CDC-supported TakeMeHome (opens in a new tab) program mails free at-home HIV self-test kits, and, in many areas, free STI kits, to your door, with no insurance or payment needed. The paid kits below add broader panels and faster turnaround.
In-home collection
$79 & up
Best value: single tests
$49 & up
Best for simplicity & support
$89 & up
Every kit uses CLIA-certified labs. At-home testing is for screening; a reactive result should be confirmed and treated by a clinician. Prices and panels shown are illustrative and change often, confirm current details on the provider's site.
Also in the area
Beyond the public testing sites above, these federally certified (CLIA) labs serve Herkimer County, each lab's town is shown on its card below. Many test through a doctor's order or by appointment rather than walk-in, so call ahead to confirm STD/STI testing and availability before visiting.
321 East Albany Street, Herkimer, NY 13350
CMS-certified lab
140 Burwell Street, Little Falls, NY 13365
CMS-certified lab
Source: CMS CLIA registry (Provider of Services), Q1 2026. Federal public records: active CLIA-certified laboratories near Ilion. A CLIA certificate records only that a laboratory is federally certified — it does not confirm the site performs STD testing, nor its hours, price or access. Inclusion is not an endorsement; always call to verify.
Local clinicians
Beyond dedicated clinics, 233 primary-care, OB-GYN, infectious-disease and other clinicians have a CMS practice record within 30 miles of Ilion. They may be able to evaluate symptoms or order a confidential STD panel during a regular visit, and 68 offer telehealth.
Sabina Banu, MD
Internal medicine · 99 6th Avenue, Ilion
Christopher Alinea, MD
Internal medicine · 55 Central Plz, Ilion
Virendra Sharma, MD Telehealth
Family medicine · 201 East State Street, Herkimer
Colette Tangel, MD Telehealth
Internal medicine · 321 East Albany Street, Herkimer
Nwe Ni Hnin Aye, MD
Family medicine · 1256 Culver Avenue, Utica
Prabhat Ahluwalia, MD
OB-GYN · 140 Burwell Street, Little Falls
These are registry-listed clinicians, not dedicated STD-testing clinics. CMS records do not independently verify current licensure, testing services, availability, price, or new-patient status. Confirm each detail before booking. Source: CMS Doctors & Clinicians.
Nearby pharmacies
No pharmacy near Ilion, NY publishes an STD-related service or holds a current CLIA testing certificate, so these are simply the closest. Contact a location directly to confirm counter hours, services, prices, and availability before visiting.
Kinney Drugs
0.3 miEmpire Drugs
0.3 mi
0.3 mi Medicine Shoppe
0.3 miShowing the 4 closest pharmacies to Ilion, NY.
Directory records identify nearby pharmacies. Service, stock, price, and hours information is shown only when supported by current location-specific evidence.
Prevention & treatment
Testing is one step. For residents of Ilion, telehealth covers the rest: HIV-prevention medication (PrEP) and DoxyPEP to lower future risk, and discreet online treatment if a result comes back positive. All prescribed by licensed U.S. clinicians.
From $0 insured
Telehealth PrEP & DoxyPEP with at-home testing and ongoing monitoring
Visit from $0 insured
Telehealth STI treatment and sexual-health care, delivered or to your pharmacy
Visit from $39
Online STI treatment & DoxyPEP: same-day prescriptions to your pharmacy
$0 with most insurance
Free online PrEP & DoxyPEP: HIV prevention, home lab kits, no in-person visit
Pricing varies by insurance and changes often, confirm on the provider's site. These services are not a substitute for emergency care.
STD stats & rates
How reported STI rates in Herkimer County, the county that includes Ilion, compare with New York and U.S. averages, based on the most recent 2023 surveillance data. An estimated ~21% of residents are aged 15–34 (ACS), the age group with the highest reported chlamydia and gonorrhea rates nationally.
#45 of 62 New York counties for chlamydia, a higher rate than 27% of the state
| Infection | Herkimer County | New York | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlamydia | 193.3 115 cases ▼ 65% | 558.4 | 492.2 |
| Gonorrhea | 58.8 35 cases ▼ 75% | 235.6 | 179.5 |
| Syphilis (P&S) | 3.4 2 cases ▼ 77% | 14.8 | 15.8 |
| Syphilis (early) | 3.4 2 cases ▼ 85% | 23.1 | 16 |
| Syphilis (late/unknown) | 1.7 1 cases ▼ 93% | 25.2 | 29.5 |
Rates per 100,000 population, 2023. Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county, state & U.S., all-ages basis). Population figures: U.S. Census Bureau ACS. These figures are the latest available surveillance estimates. Bars are scaled to the highest rate shown.
Reading these numbers: reported case rates only count infections that were actually tested for and diagnosed, so they track local screening effort as much as true spread: a higher rate can reflect more testing, a lower one less. Either way, most STIs cause no symptoms, so treat the figures above as context rather than a verdict, and test on the CDC's schedule regardless of how your area looks.
Between 2020 and 2023 in Herkimer County, chlamydia has fallen from 261.1 to 193.3 per 100,000 (26%), gonorrhea has risen from 54.9 to 58.8 per 100,000 (7%), and P&S syphilis has risen from 1.7 to 3.4 per 100,000 (100%).
The 2020 dip reflects reduced pandemic-era screening, not lower transmission. Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county, state & U.S., all-ages basis).
Community health context
Sources: CDC PLACES (ZIP), County Health Rankings, CDC/ATSDR SVI, HRSA HPSA, HRSA MUA/P, Neighborhood Atlas ADI. Lower insurance coverage, fewer routine checkups, and a thin primary-care ratio all raise the value of low-cost public clinics and at-home testing in Herkimer County.
Local HIV snapshot
Herkimer County HIV care continuum (2023)
Among Herkimer County residents living with HIV, 87% are in care · 75.9% are virally suppressed. Early, routine testing is what moves these numbers: it is the entry point to PrEP, treatment, and viral suppression.
Sources: AIDSVu (Emory/Gilead) · CDC AHEAD · CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county care continuum). The CDC recommends everyone aged 13–64 test for HIV at least once: every lab and clinic listed above offers HIV testing, and free rapid HIV testing is available at a local health department.
Congenital syphilis, passed from parent to baby in pregnancy, is the fastest-rising STI in the country. U.S. cases climbed from 2,163 in 2020 to 3,882 in 2023. It is almost entirely preventable: the CDC recommends a syphilis test at the first prenatal visit, and every clinic and lab listed for Herkimer County tests for syphilis.
Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus, 2023 (county-level congenital syphilis is not published).
Local resources & officials
Data & references
Local context
Herkimer's streets feed into Ilion the way most daily routines do here: by car, along NY 51 or State Route 5, past the long residential blocks where roughly six in ten households own their homes outright and the rest pay some of the most affordable rents in upstate New York. That combination of low housing costs and larger-than-average household sizes points to a community where people share space, share budgets, and often share schedules, which shapes everything from grocery runs to medical appointments. With nearly two-thirds of residents in the labor force and unemployment running meaningfully above the state norm, a lot of people in Ilion are piecing together hours rather than working predictable nine-to-fives. For younger adults in their late teens and twenties, the years when STI transmission is statistically most concentrated, that kind of variable schedule makes anything requiring advance planning easy to defer.
Clinic cards on this page list options, and several are structured to fit around shift work rather than around it. Ilion is also not a place where you walk somewhere for a test. Getting screened means getting in a car and committing to a trip up toward Vickerman Hill or out along Central Avenue, which is worth knowing when you're choosing a clinic by distance rather than by name recognition alone.
Getting there
At 6.45/20 on the EPA walkability index, day-to-day errands in Ilion generally mean driving: plan on a car or rideshare to reach a clinic, and check each listing's hours and phone before you go.
Source: EPA National Walkability Index 2021.
ZIP 13357 snapshot
ZIP-level Census figures for the wider 13357 area around Ilion: a single ZIP can span several communities, so they describe the area, not Ilion alone.
Ilion sits in Herkimer County, ZIP 13357. Local context that shapes where residents test:
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Neighborhoods & communities
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Nearby cities & towns
Just outside Ilion? These nearby communities have their own testing guides: clinics, at-home kits, and free screening close to home.
Reference
Everything to know before you test in Herkimer County: the CDC's screening guidelines, each infection's detection window, per-test reference prices, and your privacy rights under New York law. If you have symptoms right now, our confidential symptom checker maps them to the tests worth considering.
Based on current CDC screening recommendations.
| Group | Tests | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone aged 13–64 | HIV | At least once |
| Sexually active women under 25 | Chlamydia, gonorrhea | Every year |
| Women 25+ with new or multiple partners | Chlamydia, gonorrhea | Every year |
| Pregnant people | HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B & C, chlamydia | Early in pregnancy |
| Gay & bisexual men (MSM) | Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV | Every 3–6 months |
| Anyone who shares injection equipment | HIV, hepatitis B & C | At least yearly |
| All adults at least once | Hepatitis C | At least once |
Testing too early can return a false negative, confirm timing with an Ilion-area provider.
| Infection | Earliest reliable test | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Chlamydia | 1–2 weeks | Urine or swab |
| Gonorrhea | 1–2 weeks | Urine or swab |
| Trichomoniasis | 1–4 weeks | Urine or swab |
| HIV (NAT / RNA) | 10–33 days | Blood |
| HIV (4th-gen Ag/Ab) | 18–45 days | Blood |
| HIV (antibody) | 3–12 weeks | Blood / oral |
| Syphilis | 3–6 weeks | Blood |
| Hepatitis B | 3–6 weeks | Blood |
| Hepatitis C | 8–11 weeks | Blood |
| Herpes (HSV) | 4–16 weeks (antibody); swab a sore | Blood / swab |
These are the federal Medicare reference prices for processing each lab test. Public clinics and the community health centers serving Ilion often test free or on a sliding scale; private labs and at-home kits bundle several tests into one fee. Use this as a per-test benchmark before you pay out of pocket, or see the full guide to STD test costs for insurance, free, and at-home options.
| Test | Reference price | CPT / HCPCS |
|---|---|---|
| Chlamydia (NAAT) | $47.80 | 87491 |
| Gonorrhea (NAAT) | $47.80 | 87591 |
| Trichomoniasis (NAAT) | $47.76 | 87661 |
| HIV-1/2 antigen/antibody | $26.87 | 87389 |
| HIV-1/2 antibody | $22.44 | 86703 |
| Syphilis (RPR/VDRL) | $5.61 | 86592 |
| Syphilis (treponemal antibody) | $17.49 | 86780 |
| Herpes (HSV NAAT) | $47.76 | 87529 |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen | $15.33 | 87340 |
| Hepatitis C antibody | $29.16 | 86803 |
Source: Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, CMS, 2025 rates (data.cms.gov). Reference rate for the lab assay only: a clinic visit, sample collection, or a bundled multi-test panel may cost more. Medicaid and most insurers cover STD screening at no out-of-pocket cost.
Two things that actually depend on New York law: who can consent, and whether partners can be treated without their own visit. Everything else about testing privately is the same nationwide (see below).
In New York, a minor of any age can consent to confidential STI testing and treatment on their own, no parental permission is required.
New York permits Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT): if you test positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea, your provider can give you medication (or a prescription) to pass to your partner, no separate exam or appointment needed for them.
Keeping a test private works the same in every state. Whether an STD test shows on insurance (the EOB), how to test anonymously, and self-pay options that leave no insurance trail don’t change by location.
Learn more about confidential STD testing in New YorkSource: Guttmacher Institute, Minors' Access to STI Services; CDC, Legal Status of Expedited Partner Therapy. General information, not legal advice.
Good to Know
Answers to the questions people ask most before getting tested.
Yes, several local labs offer same-day walk-in testing; best to call first.
Free at public clinics. Private labs run about $24 for one test and $139 for a full panel; at-home kits are $49+.
Yes, free HIV testing is available at public clinics in the area.
A full panel typically covers chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
Herkimer County reported ~193 chlamydia cases per 100,000 in 2023, below the New York average.
Yes, PrEP, a daily pill that helps prevent HIV in HIV-negative people, is available in the area.
In New York, people under 18 can consent to confidential STD testing and treatment on their own.
Use condoms, test regularly, get the HPV and hep B vaccines, and ask about PrEP for HIV.
Yes, sores or ulcers can indicate herpes or syphilis and should be evaluated quickly, ideally while a sore is present.
Yes, syphilis is cured with antibiotics (usually penicillin), and earlier treatment prevents long-term damage.
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