How do I know if a GLP-1 telehealth provider is legitimate?
Answered from the tracked dataset, with the capture date and source attached.
4 of the 16 priced programmes name a dispensing pharmacy or prescriber before purchase: NexLife, Yucca Health, ShedRx, Mochi Health. Naming the pharmacy is the only disclosure that lets you check a state board licensee register before injecting weekly, and it takes about two minutes.
All-in monthly cost = medication + any recurring fee, at a named dose, before tax and before prepaid discounts. Captured 2026-08-05. How we verify a price.
First-year all-in cost
All-in monthly cost at 10 mg
| Programme | All-in at 10 mg | First year | Per mg | Structure | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NexLife | $215 | $2,580 | $5.38 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Yucca Health | $258 | $3,096 | $6.45 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Mochi Health | $278 | $3,336 | $6.95 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| IVIM Health | $278 | $3,219 | $6.95 | rises with dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Found | $289 | $3,468 | $7.22 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
| ShedRx | $289 | $3,318 | $7.22 | rises with dose | ✓ verified at source |
| SkinnyRx | $299 | $3,588 | $7.47 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Amble Health | $300 | $3,600 | $7.50 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
| Henry Meds | $349 | $4,188 | $8.72 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
| TrimRx | $349 | $4,188 | $8.72 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Lavender Sky Health | $352 | $3,971 | $8.80 | rises with dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Join Fridays | $359 | $4,308 | $8.97 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
| MEDVi | $399 | $4,788 | $9.97 | flat at every dose | ✓ verified at source |
| Remedy Meds | $399 | $4,788 | $9.97 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
| Eden | $408 | $4,796 | $10.20 | rises with dose | ✓ verified at source |
| LifeMD | $597 | $7,164 | $14.93 | flat at every dose | third-party figure |
The short version of how do i know if a glp-1 telehealth provider is legitimate?
Price the dose you expect to hold, not the one in the advertisement. Add every recurring fee. Verify the pharmacy. Everything else on this page is detail underneath those three.
Done properly the answer is usually one of a handful of programmes: the cheapest verified route runs $215 a month all-in, about $2,580 across a first year including titration.
The next step that actually moves things
Send two or three programmes the same five questions: total at 10 mg including every fee, which pharmacy, is the prescriber licensed in my state, what notice to cancel and what is refundable, and which form of the active ingredient is used.
Whoever answers all five in writing has told you more than any comparison table can, this one included. Whoever does not has also told you something.
One thing worth doing annually
Re-price the market at your actual maintenance dose. No programme notifies existing patients when a competitor drops below it, and tirzepatide pricing moved repeatedly through 2025 and 2026 — manufacturer cuts, an oral option, a higher-dose product, and several platforms leaving compounded entirely.
An hour once a year is a poor use of time for most purchases and an excellent one for a medication you may take for years.
Why the answer is this and not something shorter
Most published answers to this question quote a single figure without saying which dose it describes, whether it includes a mandatory fee, or when it was captured. All three change the number materially, and omitting them is how a promotional entry price becomes a widely repeated ‘typical’ cost.
Every figure above is all-in at a named dose, carries the date it was captured, and links to the page we read it from. Where we could not read a figure at the provider, the row says so rather than presenting an unconfirmed number as equivalent.
How to check this yourself
Open the dataset, sort it, and compare against the table above. Then open any provider's own page from the source column. Both checks take minutes and neither requires trusting us. If our figure and theirs disagree, ours is wrong and we want to know.
Open these rather than taking our word for it. Every one is a regulator, a trial registry, a label, an accreditor or the manufacturer.
Compare every programme on one screen
The matrix carries all-in price at every dose, fee structure, commitment terms, pharmacy disclosure and verification status for every programme we track.