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Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 6.8/10

Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial — it names Belmar Pharmacy

6.8
★★★☆☆3.4/5

Care Bare Rx's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.

$199/mo
Price rises with dose

Covered by the monthly price

Medication

In the price

Clinician visits

In the price

Shipping

In the price

Lab work

Not stated

Coaching

Not stated

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No insurance neededVetted by our editors

Prices at Care Bare Rx begin at $199/month for compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide, with brand-name Ozempic available as well. The footprint is all 50 states plus Puerto Rico. It bills itself as LGBTQ+-inclusive, and it shares a clinician and 4-pharmacy network run by Lion MD with Synergy Rx and Breeze Meds.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed & fact-checked against primary sources · How we verify contentLast reviewed
GLP-1 from $705/moPrice shown up frontIncludes medication + consultAll 50 statesPharmacy namedNo FDA letter on record

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from $199/mo · no insurance needed

Care Bare Rx at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide, Tirzepatide
Starting price
$199/mo (Homepage: 'Weight Loss Treatments Starting at $199' / 'WEIGHT LOSS From $199/mo'. Per-dose prices are quiz-gated in t...)
Pricing model
Scales with dose — higher doses cost more
What's included
Medication · Consult · Shipping
Availability
All 50 states
FDA status
No FDA warning letter on record

How Care Bare Rx scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Care Bare Rx has published rather than from an opinion we formed: what it charges, which molecules it will dispense, what its record shows, and what the monthly figure actually buys. Where it publishes nothing, that absence is what gets scored. Every seller in the register goes through the same six columns.

Value25%

0.0/10

$705/month is 273% above the register median of $189 for compounded semaglutide.

Effectiveness25%

10.0/10

Dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide, compounded only. Anchored to SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide, -20.9%) and STEP 1 (semaglutide, -14.9%).

User Experience15%

8.0/10

On the seller's own pages, a price is published before the questionnaire starts.

Trust & Safety15%

9.0/10

names its dispensing pharmacy; shows a price before asking for health information; publishes its state list. Our verification confidence is medium.

Accessibility10%

10.0/10

Publishes coverage in 50 of 50 states.

Support10%

7.0/10

The price covers medication, consult, shipping.

6weighted dimensions
560sellers in the register
Everychecked against the seller's own site
Value 25%Effectiveness 25%User Experience 15%Trust & Safety 15%Accessibility 10%Support 10%

A seller that will not show a price before an intake loses points on Value and carries that note in its review. Withholding the number is itself a finding. How we score →

What we checked on Care Bare Rx

Last checked July 2026
  • Re-read the price on file across 3 dose or plan tiers
  • Checked state coverage: all 50
  • Established what the monthly figure covers, and what it leaves out
  • Confirmed which compounding pharmacy fills the order, and its accreditation
  • Searched our FDA enforcement register for this operator

Price, availability, and compliance here are read off the seller's own pages and off primary regulatory records, named in the sources below. Editorial confidence in this data: medium.

What signing up with Care Bare Rx involves

Assembled from this seller’s entry in the register — the price record, the state list, the dispensing pharmacy where one is named, and what the monthly figure covers. It describes what a reader can expect to meet on the way to a prescription, and what is missing from the seller’s own disclosures. It is not a clinical judgment and not a prescribing decision.

  1. 1Care Bare Rx publishes a price on its own site before asking anything about you. You can compare it against this register without starting a questionnaire.
  2. 2The intake is a written questionnaire. No live video visit or baseline bloodwork is recorded as required.
  3. 3A prescription is dispensed by Belmar Pharmacy, which Care Bare Rx names publicly. Most sellers in this register do not.
  4. 4The monthly price is recorded as covering medication, consult, shipping.
Price shown before you start
  • Cheapest standing monthly prices on record: semaglutide $705. Membership fees, first-month rates and insured copays are excluded from those figures.
  • Coverage is published for all 50 states.
  • The medication is compounded, so it is not an FDA-approved product and has not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality.

GLP-1 medications Care Bare Rx offers

Each one has its own guide: how the molecule works, the dosing schedule, the side effects that show up in practice, and what the trials actually measured.

SemaglutideTirzepatideWegovyOzempicMounjaroZepboundRybelsus

Peptides Care Bare Rx offers

Care Bare Rx sells peptides beyond the GLP-1s. Tap one to read what the evidence says about it.

DropletNAD+Energy & cellular aging

Pricing

Prices re-verified

StartingCompounded
$199/mo
semaglutide

Homepage: 'Weight Loss Treatments Starting at $199' / 'WEIGHT LOSS From $199/mo'. Per-dose prices are quiz-gated in the Nuxt intake app (intake.carebarerx.com) = not published; dose_pricing_model scales_with_dose still consistent with 'Price varies by dose and medication prescribed' (FAQ).

StartingCompounded
$199/mo
tirzepatide

Same shared 'from $199/mo' weight-loss price point; tirzepatide-specific price not separately published. $50/mo under the $249 tirz median.

Ozempic injectionCompounded
$705/mo
semaglutide

FAQ/About footer strip: 'OZEMPIC(R) INJECTION From $705/mo' — unchanged from our record.

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here was read off Care Bare Rx's own checkout on the date shown. Sellers move prices without announcing it, and promotional rates lapse, so confirm the standing cost on their site before committing.

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Care Bare Rx compounding-pharmacy partners

Each partner below is a 503A or 503B pharmacy that Care Bare Rx routes prescriptions through. Each entry is anchored to a verbatim primary-source quote from the provider’s or pharmacy’s own site.

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In its favor

  • Publishes a price on its own site before the medical questionnaire, so it can be compared without handing over health information
  • The monthly figure covers medication, consult, shipping
  • Coverage is published for all 50 states
  • Names 4 dispensing pharmacies, which most sellers in this register do not do
  • No FDA warning letter matched this operator when we searched our enforcement register

Against it

  • Semaglutide at $705 a month, 273% above the $189 register median for the same drug and form
  • Its semaglutide and tirzepatide are compounded rather than FDA-approved, so they have not been reviewed by the agency for safety, effectiveness or manufacturing quality

What Care Bare Rx charges

Care Bare Rx charges $199/month. That sits above the middle of the market, which puts the burden on whatever else is in the package.

  • Compounded semaglutide — $199/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide — $199/month
  • Compounded semaglutide — $705/month

The median standing price across the GLP-1 providers we track is about $169/month, so this is a premium, and a premium has to buy something. Check what is bundled before accepting it.

Found dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide from $149/month, which makes it the honest comparison to run before committing here.

What Care Bare Rx dispenses

Care Bare Rx prescribes semaglutide (approved as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (approved as Zepbound and Mounjaro). Between them these are the two best-evidenced weight-loss molecules currently on the market. What arrives is compounded at a licensed pharmacy, not an approved pen. That is the reason it costs less, and the reason the finished preparation carries no FDA review behind it.

What we could verify

On the record: it treats patients in all 50 states and it names the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. We searched the federal warning-letter record for this operator and came back with nothing. Because the medication is compounded, the named pharmacy is the detail that matters most here — it is the license you can actually look up. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price evidence is set out in our scoring methodology.

Who should look elsewhere

  • You are optimizing for the twelve-month total rather than the first bill — a flat-rate seller such as CoreAge Rx will usually win that arithmetic.
  • You want the FDA-approved pen specifically. Nothing here is the approved finished product.
  • You need to bill insurance. Like most of this market, this is cash-pay.

It fits if

  • you need access regardless of where you live

Our read

Care Bare Rx costs more than the middle of this market. If the extras it charges for are ones you would actually use, that is a defensible trade. If not, the same molecule is available for less. Breeze Meds is the nearest comparison we track, and worth reading alongside this.

The Bottom Line

Care Bare Rx's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.

Score: 6.8/10Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial — it names Belmar PharmacyFrom: $199/mo

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Where Care Bare Rx is the wrong choice

No seller in this register suits every reader, and saying otherwise would be the easiest way to sell one. On these four counts another entry does better.

  • If you need the FDA-approved pen rather than a compounded vial, consider Gala.
  • If the standing monthly cost is what decides it, consider Telos Rx (from $99/mo).
  • If you want a human checking in, not just a prescription, consider Oak.

Alternatives to Care Bare Rx

8.3/ 10
Verified partner

Telos Rx

Best for: starting below a standard dose, with microdose tiers

★★★★☆4.2/5

Editorial score · methodology

$49/mo
CompoundedSemaglutideTirzepatideBPC-157CJC-1295 / Ipamorelin
Get StartedRead full Telos Rx review →
8.8/ 10
Verified partner

Gala

Best for: moving between compounded and brand without changing seller

★★★★☆4.4/5

Editorial score · methodology

$129/mo
CompoundedSemaglutideTirzepatideLegitScript Verified
Get StartedRead full Gala review →
7.5/ 10
Verified partner

Synergy Rx

Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial — it names Belmar Pharmacy

★★★★☆3.8/5

Editorial score · methodology

$199/mo
CompoundedSemaglutideTirzepatideLegitScript Verified
Get StartedRead full Synergy Rx review →
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Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

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Sources

Cited across this Care Bare Rx review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.

Sources & methodology — as of August 2026
  1. 1.GLP Watchdog — GLP-1 Pricing Index 2026 (our independent dataset)— GLP Watchdog.
  2. 2.FDA — Compounding and the 503A Pharmacy Framework— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  3. 3.FDA — Drug Shortages Database (current shortage listings)— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  4. 4.PCAB — Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board Standards— Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) / PCAB.
  5. 5.KFF — Medicaid coverage research (anti-obesity & GLP-1 drug policy)— Kaiser Family Foundation.
  6. 6.STEP 1 Trial — Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity (Wilding JPH et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 33567185.
  7. 7.FDA — Wegovy (semaglutide) Approval History via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  8. 8.FDA — Ozempic (semaglutide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  9. 9.SURMOUNT-1 Trial — Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity (Jastreboff AM et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 35658024.
  10. 10.FDA — Zepbound (tirzepatide) Approval History via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  11. 11.FDA — Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  12. 12.SURMOUNT-5 Trial — Tirzepatide vs. Semaglutide Head-to-Head in Obesity (Garvey WT et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 40334173.

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