FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Contact: Tony Mangan, Communications Director, 605-773-6878   

Attorney General Jackley Secures Settlement with

GS Labs Regarding Overpriced and Delayed COVID-19 Tests

PIERRE, S.D.– South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota consumers will receive $50,380.00 as part of a $4.87 million 18-state settlement with GS Labs that resolves claims that the testing company overcharged patients, unlawfully charged administrative fees, and failed to deliver timely COVID-19 test results.

“South Dakota consumers were misled by GS Lab’s promises that were never kept,” said Attorney General Jackley. “This settlement negotiated by South Dakota and the other states means our consumers will receive restitution.”

The multistate coalition investigated problems with GS Labs’s nationwide testing practices from 2020 through 2022, that included:

• GS Labs intentionally advertised inflated “cash prices” for COVID-19 tests, sometimes as high as $380 per test or nearly $1,000 for multi-panel tests, that were used to justify overcharging patients with insurance coverage. And while GS Labs offered a “discount” from these “cash prices” to actual cash-paying patients, almost 30,000 patients still paid much more than market rate for their COVID-19 tests.

• For hundreds of thousands of patients, GS Labs guaranteed test results within three days and failed to deliver on its promise, sometimes taking a week or longer to get test results to patients.

• Despite advertising that patients with insurance would have no out-of-pocket costs, the company charged administrative fees as high as $49 per test to about 70,000 patients.

Under the terms of the settlement, GS Labs will pay $3,628,718.34 in restitution to patients, including $1,843,375.99 for cash-paying patients that were overcharged for tests, $1,749,568.35 for patients that were charged administrative fees, and $33,692 for cash-paying patients that did not receive test results within three days. South Dakotans that were harmed by GS Labs’s testing practices will receive $50,380.00 in restitution through the settlement.

GS Labs will also pay $1.25 million to the multistate group, which includes a payment of $16,669.99 to the State of South Dakota. The state’s share will go to the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division.

The settlement was negotiated by the Attorneys General of Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Washington. Other Attorneys Generals involved in the settlement are from the states of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.

South Dakotans who believe they are eligible for restitution can contact GS Labs at this link: www.gslabstesting.com.

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