Want Better Health and Status? For $250,000, Longevity Clinics Promise Both

For up to six figures a year, longevity clinics promise to buy their patrons longer, healthier lives. For now, they’re conferring something maybe just as valuable: status.

Plenty of people are deciding the hefty fees are worth it. High-end medical clinics aimed at optimizing their clients’ health for years to come are proliferating, as demand for their often-experimental treatments grows. A few hundred such clinics now operate in the U.S., longevity doctors and market researchers estimate. Most of them are in affluent areas in California, New York and Florida, according to research and media company Longevity.Technology.

Longevity clinics can charge hundreds to thousands of dollars for à la carte services such as biological age-testing, preventive body scans or plasma exchange and, at the highest end, $100,000 or more for annual memberships. At $250,000 a year, for instance, Extension Health in downtown New York now offers top-paying clients a “Superhuman” package by invitation only.

Many doctors and scientists caution that some clinics’ treatments lack robust scientific evidence and could even carry certain health risks. Supplements, a big part of many longevity regimens, aren’t regulated at the level that prescription drugs are, for instance. The clinics’ nontraditional approaches are often the draw for those obsessed with fighting aging and with the means to get personalized medical care, say clients, consultants and clinic operators.

For more information see Alex Janin “Want Better Health and Status? For $250,000, Longevity Clinics Promise Both,” The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2025.  

Special thanks to Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.