Provider review
Medical Health Institute review
A lab-first GLP-1 track that never names its drug.
Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor
Price updated October 2026
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From $100 a month, GLP-1 not named, depends on pharmacy availability
Visit Medical Health InstituteA starting monthly figure is shown, footnoted as depending on pharmacy availability.
Price as published
Medical Health Institute
From $100 a month, GLP-1 not named, depends on pharmacy availability
- Vs median
- Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
- Structure
- Standard plan, self-directed low dose
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy not publicly identified
Advertising disclosure · we may earn a commission if you start care through some of these links, at no extra cost to you.
In one paragraph
The verdict
Medical Health Institute is a clinician-led membership for hormones, weight and performance, and it starts everything with lab work: a concierge lab draw, a clinician who interprets the results, and a plan built from them, with dosing guided by your numbers. For weight loss it offers a GLP-1 track with a starting monthly figure, which is more than many clinics show. But it never names the drug, so you cannot tell whether that figure is for semaglutide, tirzepatide or something else, and a footnote says the figure depends on pharmacy availability, so the price you are quoted may differ. The cost of the labs is not shown beside it either. Refund terms are given only at checkout or in your program agreement, and the states served are not listed. If you value a lab-guided approach and a video visit, it is a reasonable fit; if you need to know the drug and the full monthly cost first, it is not.
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
Who it suits, and who it does not
A good fit if
- You want treatment built on lab results and reviewed on video
- You also want hormone or performance care from the same clinic
- You pay with HSA or FSA funds
Look elsewhere if
- You want to know which GLP-1 you will get before you pay
- You want the lab cost and the drug cost shown together
- You want a low-dose product
What it actually costs
Price as published
From $100 a month, GLP-1 not named, depends on pharmacy availability
- Vs median
- Not comparable — no per-month rate is published — the verified string carries no monthly figure
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo is the full published spread on this site
- Structure
- Standard plan, self-directed low dose
No low-dose product of its own. Starting low means asking for a smaller amount inside a standard plan, at the standard plan's price.
235 of the 548 programs here price a small dose this way. A lab-first GLP-1 track whose drug is never named, with a starting figure that depends on pharmacy availability. No low-dose product exists.
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
What is included
- Consult
- Confirm any separate fee
- Dietitian
- Not confirmed
- Labs
- Required
- Pricing
- Check plan terms
What it does well
- Treatment is built on lab work, with dosing guided by your results
- A video consultation with a clinician comes before any plan
- A starting figure for the GLP-1 track is printed before you sign up
- HSA and FSA payments are accepted
Pharmacy, labs and oversight
Medical Health Institute does not publicly identify the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. Bloodwork is required before you start. Confirm whether clinician visits cost extra.
Transparency check
1 of 4 published openly
What Medical Health Institute publishes about itself, read from its own pages when we verified them — not estimated, and not a score.
- Pharmacy named and regulatedNo pharmacy is identified anywhere on its own pages.
- Not published
- A price you can read before intakeThe figure appears only after an intake quiz, so it cannot be compared before signing up.
- Not published
- What a higher dose costsPriced by dose, plan or tier, and the higher rungs are not published — the advertised figure does not tell you what a larger dose costs.
- Not published
- No FDA warning letter on fileChecked against the FDA's own warning-letter database; nothing on file for this company.
- None on file
How the program works
Medical Health Institute, or MHI, is a clinician-led membership for hormone, weight and performance care, built around lab work and biomarkers. For weight loss it offers a GLP-1 track with lab-guided dosing, a video consultation with a clinician, and medication shipped from its pharmacy partners. The site never names the drug, and the starting figure is footnoted as depending on pharmacy availability. Concierge lab draws are part of the model, and its terms say programs are available to residents of states where its providers are licensed, without listing them.
The honest cons
The GLP-1 drug is never named, so you cannot tell whether the figure is for semaglutide, tirzepatide or something else
- The starting figure depends on pharmacy availability, so the price you are quoted may be different
- Lab work is part of the model and its cost is not shown next to the GLP-1 price
- Refund terms are given only at the point of purchase
- The states served are not listed, and no low-dose product exists
- Intentional microdosing of a GLP-1 is off-label and unproven
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
How it compares
Medical Health Institute is one of 548 low-dose GLP-1 programs compared on this site, and 299 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The full list puts every published price in one place, with the companies that pay us listed first — something we state there, on the page it applies to.
Also consider
Two more programs that price a small dose the way Medical Health Institute does. Both are partners: we may earn a commission if you start care through these links.
Partner
Sprout Health
$149 sema · $199 tirz
Standard plan, self-directed low dose
FDA warning letter · Sprout Health · September 2025 · addressed to Sprout Health Partners LLC dba Sprout Health. Details in our review.
Partner
Bodybuilding Health+
$179/mo sema · $209/mo tirz
Standard plan, self-directed low dose
Where this sits
#474 of 548
Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and Medical Health Institute is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.
Compare all 548 providers →Read this before you buy
Intentional GLP-1 microdosing is off-label and unproven — no randomized trial has established that a sub-label dose does anything, and any dose belongs with a clinician who knows your history. If you are going to have that conversation, have it with real numbers.
- What the evidence actually shows
- Low dose vs full dose
- Who should not microdose
- The true annual cost of a plan
- Titration planner
Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.
The closest alternative
HealthRX
$190/mo sema · $239/mo tirz (monthly plan)
- Vs median
- $15/mo above the $175 median
- Market
- $59–$1,300/mo across 299 of 548
- Structure
- Standard plan, self-directed low dose
- Dispensed
- Pharmacy not publicly identified
Advertising disclosure · we may earn a commission if you start care through some of these links, at no extra cost to you.
Read the HealthRX review →Microdosing is off-label and unproven — decide with a clinician. Prices are as published by the provider when we last checked; confirm current terms before you buy.