Cost cards · Read the quote
Find the whole bill behind the headline.
A low monthly price caught your eye. Find out what that month includes, then ask what changes in the next month.
Use the cost worksheet
Ask for the full quote
What does the monthly price cover?
In a small sample of online weight-care offers checked in September 2026, membership plans charged separately for the medicine.
Ask for the care fee, medicine, any tests and delivery on the same written quote. Ask which charges repeat each month and which happen only at the start.
If the assessment does not lead to a prescription, what would still be charged? That question belongs in the price discussion too.
Give the price a label
A cash price is a starting point
GLP-1 is a name you may see for some medicines used for weight loss or type 2 diabetes.
It includes semaglutide under the names Ozempic and Wegovy, plus tirzepatide under the names Mounjaro and Zepbound.
As of September 2026, prices through medicine companies’ own offers, paid without insurance, mostly ranged from about $149 to $499 a month.
These offers have conditions; ask how to qualify and where to fill the prescription.
Prices depended on the exact medicine, whether it was a pill or an injection, and the amount of medicine prescribed.
Some company offers cost more if a refill came more than 45 days after the last delivery.
Ask whether your offer has a refill deadline.
Companies also differed in how much medicine they supplied for a “month”.
These figures describe medicine charges. Ask separately about the cost of care, tests and delivery, and ask when any introductory price ends.
What you pay through insurance, a medicine company’s offer, or a discount card can be different amounts.
A copay is the share you pay under an insurance plan. Keep the price type beside the amount when comparing quotes.
Ask the plan directly
What might insurance pay?
Ask your insurer about the exact medicine and the condition it would treat. Ask what you would pay after any approval.
Prior authorization is an insurer’s advance check before it agrees to pay.
Part D is Medicare’s coverage for prescription medicines.
As of September 2026, Part D excludes medicines when the prescription is for weight loss.
Part D may cover these medicines for type 2 diabetes or to help prevent heart attacks or strokes in certain patients.
Coverage still depends on your plan and its approval of your prescription.
As of September 2026, Medicare has a temporary weight-loss medicine program called the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge, with a $50 payment for each month’s medicine.
From July 2026 through December 2027, the Bridge pays for certain pills and injections outside Part D.
It is for some adults with Part D coverage who meet rules about their weight, health and type of insurance plan.
Having Medicare alone does not mean you qualify.
A prescription and the program’s approval are required before it pays.
The $50 you pay each month through the Bridge is excluded from Part D’s annual limit for your spending on covered prescriptions.
Even after you reach that Part D limit, you still pay $50 for each month’s medicine through the Bridge.
Ask your prescriber—the person writing the prescription—to check whether you qualify and request the program’s approval before you fill it.
Read the cost and coverage sourcesCost-question worksheet
Bring a clearer quote to the call.
Enter only charges a service has quoted for that month. Write “included” when a charge is already covered elsewhere; leave unknown amounts blank.
Put a one-time fee only in the month you must pay it. This sheet adds known charges and keeps the unanswered questions beside them.
“Included” means the cost is already part of another charge. A blank amount still needs an answer.
First month · known charges
Waiting for your quote.
Blank costs remain unanswered.
Later month · known charges
Waiting for your quote.
Blank costs remain unanswered.
Questions to take with you
- What does each charge cover, and which charges are still missing?
- When does the first-month price end?
- Are visits, tests, medicine and shipping billed separately?
- Does the plan renew automatically, and how do I cancel?
- What happens to charges if the assessment does not lead to a prescription?