Editorial policy

Written by Ellis Brandt, who builds and maintains the grading methodology. Last updated October 2026.

How providers are found

A provider is added because a reader could plausibly buy a GLP-1 medication from it in the United States, not because it has an affiliate program. The roster is built by working outward from search results, provider directories and the sites providers themselves link to, and every candidate is checked against its own footer and terms before it is scored — a domain typed from memory is often not the company you think it is. A provider that pays nobody and advertises nowhere is scored on exactly the same rubric as one that does.

That is how every provider on the site got here.

How prices are read

A price is read off the provider’s own page, or off its intake if that is where the figure actually lives, and it is recorded with the billing cycle, what it buys, what it covers, the page it came from and the date it was read. A figure without a cycle attached is not a price and is not published as one. Where a provider publishes only a from-price, that is what the site prints, labeled as a from-price, never converted into a monthly rate the seller never published.

How often it is re-checked

Every price carries the date it was read, printed beside it, and the board title carries the edition it belongs to. A figure whose reading date is stale is corrected or removed; it is not left on the page with a new date attached to an old reading. There is no fixed re-checking schedule yet. Until there is, read every figure as true on the date printed beside it and confirm it with the seller before you buy.

What the scores mean

We score price transparency, pharmacy disclosure, what is included, and cancellation terms. See our scoring criteria for how each category is assessed. We publish the category scores separately and do not assign an overall grade or ranking.

A low score is a finding, not an accusation. It says what scored low and why. It measures what a provider publishes, so it is not a statement about clinical quality: a low score does not mean a provider is unsafe, and a high one does not mean it is safe for you.

What a commercial relationship changes

Not the score. The sub-scores are read from published information, and nothing that computes them reads whether a provider pays us.

Placement, yes. That is the honest answer, and it is worth more than a denial. On every board and in the list of every seller, partners are listed first and marked “Partner”, and each board’s caption says so. Within each group the rows are listed alphabetically by provider name. The disclosure page sets out the rest.

No provider sees a grade before it is published, no provider is offered a change to a grade, and no payment has ever been accepted for one.

Sources for medication and consumer guides

Medication guides use prescribing information, regulator publications and original clinical studies where relevant. Consumer guides also use official insurance resources, consumer-protection guidance and manufacturer program terms. Sources are linked so readers can distinguish a study finding, a published policy and a practical question to ask. Our summaries preserve the population, time period and limitations that matter to a claim.

State guides use official state resources. A state guide does not establish that every provider in our national directory can treat residents there. Provider availability must be checked for the particular service, medication and location. A revision date records an editorial update; it does not imply a clinical review or a fresh check of every offer.

Corrections

Errors are fixed in public. The corrections log says what was wrong, when it was published and when it was fixed, signed and dated. A correction does not correct the page it sits on: when something is wrong, it is fixed everywhere it appears.

What is not published here

• No medical advice, and no dosing recommendation of any kind.
• No AI-generated imagery and no stock photography of patients.
• No price without its qualifier, and no figure without the date it was read.
• No superlative. The score carries the judgment; the prose does not add to it.