Provider review
PlushCare review
Charges for the appointment, not the drug — which makes it cheap and incomplete.
The published figures buy a clinician, and the prescription is filled at your own pharmacy. They are honest and small, and they leave out the number that decides your year.
Reviewed by Lena OrtizMetabolic Health Editor
Price updated August 2026
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Price as published
PlushCare
$19.99/mo membership plus $129 a visit; medication not included
- Vs median
- Not comparable — the published figure is not the whole bill — a membership, platform fee or separate medication charge sits on top of it
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- No low-dose price published
- Dispensed
- Not a compounded product
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In one paragraph
The verdict
This is a different shape from most providers here and it is worth understanding before comparing any figure. PlushCare sells the appointment rather than the medication. A membership plus a visit charge buys a licensed clinician who can prescribe; the prescription is then filled at a pharmacy on your own insurance, or at whatever cash price you can find. For somebody with decent coverage that can be much the cheapest route to an approved GLP-1, because the expensive part of the bill is being settled where insurance actually applies rather than inside a telehealth markup, and the in-network copay quoted here is small. For somebody without coverage it answers only half the question, and the half it leaves out is the large one. The numbers published are small, honest and complete for what they cover. What no page here can tell you is what the drug will cost, because that is not this company’s to quote. Establish the pharmacy price for the specific product you want first, then decide whether this route beats a flat-rate compounded plan — for some readers it will, comfortably, and for others it will not come close.
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 have insurance and want the drug filled where that coverage actually applies.
- You want to pay for clinical care rather than a bundled medication markup.
- You want a low, clearly stated cost for the consultation itself.
Look elsewhere if
- You have no coverage. The medication cost is not published and could be anything.
- You want one total figure. This site prices only half the bill.
- You want a low-dose product. None is sold here, because no medication is.
What it actually costs
Price as published
A membership at $19.99/month, with visits at $129 without insurance and "often $30 or less" as a copay for patients with in-network coverage · ★ the medication is not sold here at all: this prices the clinical relationship and a reader fills the prescription at a pharmacy on their own insurance or cash price · that makes the published figures the most honest small numbers on this site and also the least complete — nothing here tells a reader what the drug will cost · the $19.99 membership and the visit charge are separate, so the first month is both together · cancellation is stated as available at any time · no dose, no molecule and no medication price is published, because none is being sold
- Vs median
- Not comparable — the published figure is not the whole bill — a membership, platform fee or separate medication charge sits on top of it
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo is the full published spread in our ranking
- Structure
- No low-dose price published
A low-dose lane may exist, but nothing public says what it costs — so the one question this page exists to answer cannot be answered before you sign up.
52 of the 373 programs we track price a small dose this way. No medication is sold or priced here at all — the published figures buy a membership and a visit, and the prescription is filled at the reader’s own pharmacy. So the cost of any dose, low or standard, cannot be answered from this site; not answered unfavorably, simply not this company’s to answer.
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
- Billed separately
- Dietitian
- Not included
- Labs
- Not required
- Pricing
- Varies by dose, plan or tier
- Price last updated
- August 2026
What it does well
- Prices the clinical relationship openly and cheaply, with in-network copays often very low.
- Leaves the medication to be filled on your own insurance, where coverage actually applies.
- States that cancellation is available at any time.
Pharmacy, labs and oversight
PlushCare dispenses through a Not applicable — prescriptions are filled at the reader's own pharmacy facility. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is billed separately.
Transparency check
2 of 4 published openly
What PlushCare 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 we could find on its own pages.
- 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
This is a different shape from most providers here and it is worth understanding before comparing any number. PlushCare sells the appointment, not the medication. A membership plus a visit charge buys a licensed clinician who can prescribe; the prescription itself is then filled at a pharmacy on the reader's own insurance or at whatever cash price they can find. For someone with decent coverage that can be much the cheapest route to an approved GLP-1, because the expensive part of the bill is being settled where the insurance actually applies rather than inside a telehealth markup. For someone without coverage it answers only half the question, and the half it leaves out is the large one. The figures published are small, honest and complete for what they cover. What no page here can tell you is the number that decides your year, because that number is not PlushCare's to quote. Establish the pharmacy cost first, then decide whether this route is cheaper than a flat-rate compounded plan.
The honest cons
The medication is not included or priced, so the total cost is unknowable from this site.
- The membership and the visit charge are separate, so the first month is both.
- No dose, molecule or low-dose product is published, because none is being sold.
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
PlushCare is one of 373 low-dose GLP-1 programs we track, and 242 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The ranking lists every published price on one screen, ordered with the companies that pay us first — a mechanism we state there, on the page it applies to.
Where this sits
#202 of 373
Ordered with the companies that pay us first, and PlushCare is not one of them. A disclosed partition, not a score.
Compare all 373 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.
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
Care Bare Rx
From $199/mo*
- Vs median
- $30/mo above the $169 median
- Market
- $59–$1300/mo across 242 of 373
- Structure
- No low-dose price published
- 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 Care Bare Rx 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.