How to download your lab results from Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics runs the tests for a large share of US doctors’ offices. When your doctor orders bloodwork and sends you to a Quest location, or draws it in the office and ships the tubes out, Quest produces the report. Your doctor gets a copy, and so can you.
That matters because Quest’s copy does not depend on any one doctor. If you have changed practices, or your doctor’s portal shows only a summary, Quest still holds the report it issued. Here are four ways to get it.
Menu names below follow Quest’s own help pages as of October 2026. Quest changes the MyQuest layout from time to time, so if a name does not match, look for the nearest equivalent.
1. Download a PDF from MyQuest
MyQuest is Quest’s free patient portal, available as a website and as a phone app. You create an account, verify your identity, and your results appear there.
To save a result, open the Results page, open the menu next to the result you want, and select Download PDF. You can do the same from inside a result while viewing it. Quest’s help page also describes three print views of a result: Simple (results only), Standard (results with range and over-time graphs), and Advanced (the same plus Quest’s insights). (MyQuest help: printing a lab test result)
Best for: most people. It is free, quick, and gives you the lab’s own report.
What you get: one PDF per report, with the test name, your value, the unit, Quest’s reference range, and the collection date.
Things to know:
- Results can be held. Quest says results appear as soon as they are available, but that results in California, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Maryland may be held for a period to comply with state law. If more than five days have passed since your visit, the Results page has a Request Test Results option. (Quest: test results)
- Old results may be missing. Quest’s help pages say certain historical results may not be available in electronic format in MyQuest. For those, use a written request, covered below.
- Family results need linking. Results for a child or a parent in your care appear through a feature called My Circle, not in your own list. (Quest: My Circle)
- It is one report at a time. A ten-year history is a lot of clicking.
HealthViewer reads Quest PDFs, including MyQuest downloads and Quest courtesy copies, and shows every value it extracted for you to check before saving. To bring in a long history at once, save all the PDFs to a folder and use bulk import.
2. Send your results to Apple Health
If you use an iPhone, you can add Quest as an account under Health Records in the Health app and sign in with your MyQuest login. Your Quest results then appear in the Health app next to records from any hospitals and clinics you have connected. (Quest: test results)
Best for: people who want to look up a result on their phone and already keep other records in Apple Health.
Things to know: this is a way to view results, not a file you can move. The records stay on your iPhone, and there is no equivalent on Android or on a computer. HealthViewer’s Apple Health import reads device data such as heart rate, sleep, and weight, not lab records, so for labs use the MyQuest PDFs.
3. Send Quest a written request
You do not need a MyQuest account to get your results. Quest accepts a written request on its Patient Request to Access or to Disclose Protected Health Information form, and sends the reports by mail or fax. Quest’s help page has the form in English and Spanish, the current address, and a customer service number, and asks you to allow at least two weeks. (MyQuest help: having results sent to you)
Best for: older results that are not in MyQuest, people who cannot or would rather not create an account, and requests on behalf of someone else.
Things to know: this is a legal right, not a courtesy. Since 2014, federal rules have let laboratories give completed test reports directly to patients (42 CFR 493.1291(l)), and the HIPAA right of access (45 CFR 164.524) applies to labs as it does to doctors. The lab must respond within 30 calendar days, with one 30-day extension allowed if it tells you in writing why, and it can charge only a reasonable, cost-based fee for copies. (HHS guidance on the right of access)
Be specific in the request. Give your full name, date of birth, any earlier names or addresses, and the date range you want. A lab matches reports to people by those details, and a request that says “all my results” with a new surname may come back thin.
4. Get the results from your doctor’s portal
The doctor who ordered the test received Quest’s report, and most practices file it in your chart. If the practice has a patient portal, the result is probably there too.
Best for: people who already use the portal and want one place to look.
Things to know:
- The portal may show the values without the full Quest report, and may relabel the tests.
- It holds only what that practice ordered. Tests ordered by a previous doctor, an urgent care clinic, or a telehealth service are not there, but they are in MyQuest.
- If your doctor’s portal is MyChart, see How to download your lab results from MyChart.
Which one should you use?
| If you want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Keep your own copy of each report | A MyQuest PDF |
| Look up a result on your iPhone | Apple Health |
| Get results older than MyQuest shows, or without an account | A written request |
| See Quest results next to your doctor’s other records | Your doctor’s portal |
For most people the answer is MyQuest, with a written request to fill in the older years. Download each report once, when it arrives, and the history builds itself.
After you download
A few checks save confusion later:
- Duplicates. A test your doctor ordered can show up twice: once in the Quest PDF and once in your doctor’s portal. Keep one.
- Dates. A report lists when the sample was collected, when the lab received it, and when the result was reported. Use the collection date. That is when the value was true.
- Reference ranges. Quest’s ranges apply to Quest’s methods. If some of your results come from another lab, keep the range that came with each result.
- Units. Most labs report common tests in the same units, but not all. Check before you compare a Quest value with one from somewhere else.
Once the reports are in one place, the next step is reading them as a history rather than one report at a time. How to track your lab results over time walks through that, and Where should your lab results live? compares the places you can keep them. If some of your tests went to the other large national lab, see How to download your lab results from Labcorp. If you want a private place for all of it, HealthViewer is a lab results tracker that stores everything in an encrypted file on your own computer.
Quest, Quest Diagnostics, and MyQuest are trademarks of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. HealthViewer is not affiliated with or endorsed by Quest Diagnostics. Menu names and available features can change. This post is general information, not legal advice.