Edessa Review
Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 7.3/10
Best for: compounded semaglutide by injection or tablet at one price per dose, with pharmacies named
Edessa's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.
Covered by the monthly price
Medication
In the price
Clinician visits
In the price
Shipping
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Lab work
Not stated
Coaching
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No insurance needed · Vetted by our editors
Edessa is a cash-pay telehealth weight-loss service from Edessa Group, LLC of Las Vegas, with prescribing handled by OpenLoop Health's clinician network. It sells compounded semaglutide as a weekly injection or a daily dissolving tablet, plus compounded tirzepatide, at the same price at every dose, and it names four partner pharmacies. Month to month, the semaglutide injection is $179, the tablet $229 and tirzepatide $239; the advertised $135 is the 6-month plan rate.
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Edessa at a glance
- Type
- GLP-1 telehealth provider
- Medications
- Semaglutide, Tirzepatide
- Starting price
- $179/mo ($179 is the 1-month plan. The same plan table lists $160/mo on a 3-month plan and $135/mo on a 6-month plan, which is...)
- Pricing model
- Flat — dose increases don't raise the monthly price
- What's included
- Medication · Consult · Shipping
- FDA status
- No FDA warning letter on record
How Edessa scores
Six columns, each one computed from something Edessa 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%
5.6/10$239/month is 8% below the register median of $259 for compounded tirzepatide.
Effectiveness25%
10.0/10Dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide, compounded only. Anchored to SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide, -20.9%) and STEP 1 (semaglutide, -14.9%).
User Experience15%
8.0/10On the seller's own pages, a price is published before the questionnaire starts.
Trust & Safety15%
6.5/10does not name a dispensing pharmacy; shows a price before asking for health information. Our verification confidence is medium.
Accessibility10%
5.0/10Publishes no list of states served, so coverage cannot be confirmed either way. Capped at the midpoint — this measures disclosure, not reach.
Support10%
7.0/10The price covers medication, consult, shipping.
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 Edessa
Last checked September 2026- Re-read the price on file across 3 dose or plan tiers
- Established what the monthly figure covers, and what it leaves out
- 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 Edessa 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.
- 1Edessa publishes a price on its own site before asking anything about you. You can compare it against this register without starting a questionnaire.
- 2The intake is a written questionnaire. No live video visit or baseline bloodwork is recorded as required.
- 3Edessa does not say which pharmacy dispenses the medication. That is common here and it means you cannot check the pharmacy's record before you buy.
- 4The monthly price is recorded as covering medication, consult, shipping.
- Cheapest standing monthly prices on record: semaglutide $179, tirzepatide $239. Membership fees, first-month rates and insured copays are excluded from those figures.
- No state list is published, so whether Edessa serves your state cannot be confirmed from its site.
- 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.
Edessa support, as documented
- Phone
- (270) 910-2233
- support@myedessa.com
Cancelling Edessa
Read from what Edessa publishes in its own terms. Where a line says the seller does not publish something, that is the finding — we looked and it is not stated. Terms change; check the seller’s current policy before you subscribe.
- Cancel any time
- Yes
- Minimum commitment
- 1-month plan with no contract per the FAQ; 3- and 6-month plans are offered, and their billing terms are not stated publicly
- Refund policy
- Refund "(minus dr. consult fees of 25%) if you can demonstrate that you have not lost weight after following our weight loss program for a minimum of 5 months"
GLP-1 medications Edessa 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.
Pricing
Prices re-verified
$179 is the 1-month plan. The same plan table lists $160/mo on a 3-month plan and $135/mo on a 6-month plan, which is the "starting at $135" figure. Edessa does not say whether the longer plans are charged upfront, and its FAQ separately calls $135 a first-month price with no contract.
Compounded semaglutide as a once-daily dissolvable tablet. The plan table lists $209/mo on a 3-month plan and $199/mo on a 6-month plan, the "starting at $199" figure; whether longer plans are charged upfront is not stated.
$239 is the 1-month plan. The plan table lists $219/mo on a 3-month plan and $209/mo on a 6-month plan, the "starting at $209" figure; whether longer plans are charged upfront is not stated.
Check the price yourself before you pay
Every figure here was read off Edessa'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.
In its favor
- Semaglutide at $179 a month, within the normal band around this register's $189 median for the same drug and form
- Publishes a price on its own site before the medical questionnaire, so it can be compared without handing over health information
- The monthly price is recorded as flat across doses, so it does not climb as the dose is titrated up
- The monthly figure covers medication, consult, shipping
- No FDA warning letter matched this operator when we searched our enforcement register
Against it
- No state list is on record here, so whether it serves your state cannot be confirmed from this page
- No dispensing pharmacy is named in our record, so its accreditation cannot be looked up from here
- 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 Edessa charges
Edessa charges $179/month, and holds that rate across every dose. Flat dose pricing matters more than it reads: on a tiered plan the bill grows as the dose does, which means the figure that persuaded you to sign up is not the figure you end up living with.
- Compounded semaglutide — $179/month
- Compounded semaglutide — $229/month
- Compounded tirzepatide — $239/month
The median across the GLP-1 providers we track is about $170/month, so this lands mid-market — close enough that the deciding factor is unlikely to be price.
DudeMeds dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide from $175/month, which makes it the honest comparison to run before committing here.
What Edessa dispenses
Edessa prescribes semaglutide (approved as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (approved as Zepbound and Mounjaro). Between them these are the two molecules with the largest published weight-loss trial programs behind them. The medication is compounded rather than dispensed as an approved pen. Compounding serves real clinical needs and is entirely lawful; what it is not is reviewed, and the cost difference reflects that.
A needle-free oral option is genuinely uncommon and is the reason some readers will look at Edessa at all. Set expectations on the evidence, though: the published weight-loss trials for these molecules used injections. Oral and sublingual delivery of peptides is far less studied, so treat it as a route that solves the needle problem rather than as a demonstrated equal to the shot.
What we could verify
Edessa publishes little that can be checked from outside an intake. We searched the federal warning-letter record for this operator and came back with nothing. Because the medication is compounded and no dispensing pharmacy is named publicly, the single most useful question to ask at intake is which licensed pharmacy fills the prescription. A seller that will not answer that has told you something. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price evidence is set out in our scoring methodology.
Who should look elsewhere
- 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 want the price to stop moving as your dose climbs
- injections are the thing keeping you from starting
Our read
Edessa lands mid-market on price without a standout advantage or an obvious problem. It comes down to whether its particular package fits. Bodybuilding Health+ is the nearest comparison we track, and worth reading alongside this.
The Bottom Line
Edessa's strongest column is the clinical side — which molecules it will prescribe, and how it handles dosing.
Before you pay Edessa
Starting at $179 a month. Check today's price, then book the free consultation.
Where Edessa 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 Collective (from $59/mo).
- If you want a human checking in, not just a prescription, consider ShedRx.
Frequently Asked Questions
Glossary
The words sellers use, defined. Tap any term.
- Semaglutide · Drugs and brands
- Tirzepatide · Drugs and brands
- Compounded GLP-1 · Pharmacy and drug forms
- 503A pharmacy · Pharmacy and drug forms
- PCAB accreditation · Pharmacy and drug forms
- Prior authorization (PA) · Insurance and regulatory
- Off-label use · Insurance and regulatory
- FDA Drug Shortage List · Insurance and regulatory
Sources
Cited across this Edessa review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.
Sources & methodology — as of September 2026
- 1.GLP Watchdog — GLP-1 Pricing Index 2026 (our independent dataset)— GLP Watchdog.
- 2.FDA — Compounding and the 503A Pharmacy Framework— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 3.FDA — Drug Shortages Database (current shortage listings)— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 4.PCAB — Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board Standards— Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) / PCAB.
- 5.KFF — Medicaid coverage research (anti-obesity & GLP-1 drug policy)— Kaiser Family Foundation.
- 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.FDA — Wegovy (semaglutide) Approval History via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 8.FDA — Ozempic (semaglutide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 9.SURMOUNT-1 Trial — Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity (Jastreboff AM et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 35658024.
- 10.FDA — Zepbound (tirzepatide) Approval History via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 11.FDA — Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDA— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- 12.SURMOUNT-5 Trial — Tirzepatide vs. Semaglutide Head-to-Head in Obesity (Garvey WT et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 40334173.
See Edessa's current pricing
Plans start at $179 a month. The free consultation is where you learn whether you qualify, and what it costs today.