Membership stacking spreads: the advertised price is increasingly not the price
Several programmes now split the charge into medication plus a mandatory platform fee.
Several programmes now split the charge into medication plus a mandatory platform fee.
All-in monthly cost at 10 mg
An increasing share of programmes bill medication and a mandatory membership separately, so a table quoting the medication figure alone understates them by the full fee, permanently.
Ask one question before enrolling anywhere: what will I pay in total in month six at 10 mg, including every fee. A programme that cannot answer in a sentence has a structure worth reading carefully.
What this changes for what you pay
Most developments in this category move one of three things: the price of the branded product, which programmes are operating, or what may lawfully be compounded. Very few change the prescription requirement, the pharmacy licensing framework or the clinical review behind a prescription.
The cheapest verified compounded route we track currently sits at $215 a month all-in at a 10 mg maintenance dose, about $2,580 for a first year. Where a development moves that figure, our tables move with it on the next build.
How to verify this yourself
Regulatory claims should be checked against the agency rather than against coverage of the agency. FDA publishes warning letters searchable by company name, a shortage database, and its compounding pages. Trial claims should be checked against the registry entry rather than a press release.
Every source behind this item is linked below, and where a story is still moving we say so rather than implying it is settled.
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.