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Lean Meds Review

Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 9.3/10

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

9.3
★★★★★4.7/5

What Lean Meds does best is price: it charges less than most sellers we compare.

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$79/mo
Same price at every 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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Prices checked August 2026

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Titrating up does not raise the rate, which is flat and monthly: $79 to start on compounded semaglutide, $109 on compounded tirzepatide, the telehealth visit and shipping absorbed into both. Clinicians come from the OpenLoop Health network. Trinity HealthCare Supply, LLC operates the service and puts names to its five dispensing pharmacies as well as to the physicians who prescribe.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed (not clinically reviewed). Not medical advice · How we verify contentLast reviewed
GLP-1 from $79/moPrice shown up frontFlat across dosesIncludes medication + consultAll 50 statesPharmacy namedNo FDA warning letters found

Is Lean Meds legit?

Yes. Lean Meds is a real, operating US company, and we found no FDA warning letters issued to it. We rate it 9.3/10 overall, across six areas from price to trust and safety. Legitimate is not the same as right for you, though: that part is a decision for you and a licensed clinician.

Is there a Lean Meds promo or coupon code?

We know of no promo or coupon code for Lean Meds. Its listed price is $79 a month. Coupon sites advertising "Lean Meds discount codes" are not a source we can vouch for, and any genuine offer shows at checkout without a code.

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Lean Meds at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide, Tirzepatide
Starting price
$79/mo
Pricing model
Flat: the price stays the same as the dose goes up
What's included
Medication · Consult · Shipping
Availability
All 50 states
FDA status
No FDA warning letters found

How Lean Meds scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Lean Meds 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 a seller keeps something back, such as its price or its pharmacy, the score reflects it. Every seller we review goes through the same six columns.

Value25%

10.0/10

$79/month is 57% below the $185 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare.

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

A price is shown before the questionnaire starts.

Trust & Safety15%

9.0/10

It names the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. It shows a price before asking for health information. It lists the states it serves.

Accessibility10%

10.0/10

Serves 50 of 50 states.

Support10%

7.0/10

The price covers the medication, clinician visits and shipping.

6weighted dimensions
588sellers compared
Everychecked against the seller's own site
Value 25%Effectiveness 25%User Experience 15%Trust & Safety 15%Accessibility 10%Support 10%

A seller that shows no price until after the medical intake loses points on User Experience and Trust & Safety, and its review says so. How we score →

What we checked on Lean Meds

Last checked August 2026
  • Checked the listed price across 2 dose or plan tiers
  • Checked state coverage: all 50
  • Checked what the monthly price covers, and what it leaves out
  • Confirmed which compounding pharmacy fills the order, and its accreditation
  • Checked FDA warning letters for Lean Meds

Price, availability, and compliance here are read off the seller's own pages and off primary regulatory records, named in the sources below.

What signing up with Lean Meds involves

What to expect on the way to a prescription: where the price appears, who fills the medication, and what the monthly price covers. It is not medical advice, and a clinician makes the prescribing decision.

  1. 1Lean Meds shows a price on its own site before asking anything about you, so you can compare it with other sellers before you start a questionnaire.
  2. 2Belmar Pharmacy fills the prescriptions, and Lean Meds names it publicly, which most sellers do not.
  3. 3The monthly price includes the medication, clinician visits and shipping.
Price shown before you start
  • Lowest ongoing monthly price: semaglutide $79, tirzepatide $109. That leaves out membership fees, first-month rates and insurance copays.
  • Lean Meds serves 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.

Contacting Lean Meds

Email
Lean Meds offers email support

Cancelling Lean Meds

Taken from the terms Lean Meds publishes. Terms change, so check the current policy before you subscribe.

Cancel any time
Yes
Minimum commitment
None on the month-to-month plan; 3, 6 and 12-month prepay tiers are offered at lower rates
Refund policy
All sales are final except as stated in the Refund & Cancellation Policy or as required by law. Medical consultation fees are not refundable, and prescription products cannot be returned.
Early-termination fee
None

GLP-1 medications Lean Meds 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

Any dose, month-to-month (same price at every dose)Compounded
$79/mo
semaglutide

Standing month-to-month rate. The advertised $69 is the 12-month prepay tier; 3-month is $76 and 6-month is $73.

Any dose, month-to-month (same price at every dose)Compounded
$109/mo
tirzepatide

Standing month-to-month rate. Prepay tiers: $105 for 3 months, $100 for 6, $95 for 12.

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here was read off Lean Meds'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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Lean Meds compounding-pharmacy partners

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

Belmar Pharmacy

“Our Pharmacies... Belmar Pharmacy Phone: 800-525-9473 | www.belmarpharmasolutions.com; Strive Pharmacy Phone: 855-405-5993 | strivepharmacy.com; Epiq Scripts Phone: 833-654-3553 | epiqscripts.com; Casa Pharma Rx Phone: 877-937-6868 | casapharmarx.com; The Pharmacy Hub”

Strive Pharmacy

“Our Pharmacies... Belmar Pharmacy Phone: 800-525-9473 | www.belmarpharmasolutions.com; Strive Pharmacy Phone: 855-405-5993 | strivepharmacy.com; Epiq Scripts Phone: 833-654-3553 | epiqscripts.com; Casa Pharma Rx Phone: 877-937-6868 | casapharmarx.com; The Pharmacy Hub”

Epiq Scripts

“Our Pharmacies... Belmar Pharmacy Phone: 800-525-9473 | www.belmarpharmasolutions.com; Strive Pharmacy Phone: 855-405-5993 | strivepharmacy.com; Epiq Scripts Phone: 833-654-3553 | epiqscripts.com; Casa Pharma Rx Phone: 877-937-6868 | casapharmarx.com; The Pharmacy Hub”

Casa Pharma Rx

“Our Pharmacies... Belmar Pharmacy Phone: 800-525-9473 | www.belmarpharmasolutions.com; Strive Pharmacy Phone: 855-405-5993 | strivepharmacy.com; Epiq Scripts Phone: 833-654-3553 | epiqscripts.com; Casa Pharma Rx Phone: 877-937-6868 | casapharmarx.com; The Pharmacy Hub”

The Pharmacy Hub

“Our Pharmacies... Belmar Pharmacy Phone: 800-525-9473 | www.belmarpharmasolutions.com; Strive Pharmacy Phone: 855-405-5993 | strivepharmacy.com; Epiq Scripts Phone: 833-654-3553 | epiqscripts.com; Casa Pharma Rx Phone: 877-937-6868 | casapharmarx.com; The Pharmacy Hub”

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In its favor

  • Semaglutide costs $79 a month, 57% below the $185 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare
  • Tirzepatide costs $109 a month, 56% below the $250 median for compounded tirzepatide across the sellers we compare
  • Shows its price before the medical questionnaire, so you can compare it without handing over health information
  • The monthly price stays the same as your dose goes up
  • The monthly price includes the medication, clinician visits and shipping
  • Serves all 50 states
  • Names 5 pharmacies that fill its prescriptions, which most sellers do not
  • We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds

Against it

  • 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 Lean Meds charges

Lean Meds charges $79/month, and holds that rate across every dose. That sits at the affordable end of what we see. Flat dose pricing matters more than it sounds: on a tiered plan the bill grows with the dose, so the figure that got you to sign up is not the one you end up paying.

  • Compounded semaglutide: $79/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide: $109/month

For compounded semaglutide, the median across the sellers we compare is $185/month, so Lean Meds' $79 is genuinely below the middle, not just advertised that way.

Embody, at about $79/month, is the closest like-for-like alternative we review.

What Lean Meds dispenses

Lean Meds 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. These are compounded preparations from a licensed pharmacy rather than approved pens, which is where the lower price comes from. A compounded drug is not FDA-approved as a finished product: the specific preparation has not been reviewed for safety, efficacy or manufacturing quality.

Safety and disclosure

Lean Meds tells you its price before you start the medical questionnaire, that it treats patients in all 50 states, and the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds. Because the medication is compounded, the named pharmacy is the detail that matters most: its license is the one you can look up. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price is set out in our scoring methodology.

Who should look elsewhere

  • You want the FDA-approved pen specifically. Everything listed here is compounded.
  • You need insurance to cover the cost. Check whether Lean Meds bills your plan before you start.

It fits if

  • the lowest standing monthly cost is what you are solving for
  • you want the price to stop moving as your dose climbs
  • you need access wherever you live

Our read

Lean Meds competes on price without an obvious sacrifice elsewhere: $79/month, no FDA warning letters, and wide state coverage.

The Bottom Line

What Lean Meds does best is price: it charges less than most sellers we compare.

Score: 9.3/10Best for: knowing which pharmacy fills the vial: it names Belmar PharmacyFrom: $79/mo

Before you pay Lean Meds

Starting at $79 a month. Check today's price, then start the intake.

Where Lean Meds is the wrong choice

No seller suits every reader, and pretending otherwise is the easiest way to sell one. On these three counts, another seller does better.

  • If you need the FDA-approved pen rather than a compounded vial, consider Sesame Care.
  • 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.

Compare Lean Meds head to head

The sellers closest to Lean Meds on medication and price.

Frequently Asked Questions

Titrating up does not raise the rate, which is flat and monthly: $79 to start on compounded semaglutide, $109 on compounded tirzepatide, the telehealth visit and shipping absorbed into both. Clinicians come from the OpenLoop Health network. Trinity HealthCare Supply, LLC operates the service and puts names to its five dispensing pharmacies as well as to the physicians who prescribe. We rate it 9.3/10 overall.
Lean Meds starts at $79 a month. That number holds across doses, so titrating up does not move the bill. The pricing table above lists every tier.
Lean Meds says it treats patients in all 50 states.
Lean Meds sells semaglutide (sold as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (sold as Zepbound and Mounjaro). Every dose it lists is compounded.
Lean Meds lists compounded GLP-1s only. A licensed compounding pharmacy prepares them: same active ingredient as the brand drug, lower cash price, and no FDA approval of the finished product. That last part is the one readers underestimate, and the review above says why.
Check whether Lean Meds bills your insurance before you sign up. Compounded GLP-1s are rarely covered by insurance, so plan on paying the listed cash price.
Lean Meds says the price covers medication, the clinician visit and shipping. The strip near the top of this review shows what is included and what is not.
You fill in an online intake, a licensed clinician decides whether a GLP-1 is appropriate, and if the answer is yes the medication ships to you. Lean Meds runs that whole sequence on its own site.
We found no FDA warning letters issued to Lean Meds. Before you buy, weigh these: 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. None of them rules Lean Meds out, but each is worth settling before you pay.

Glossary

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Sources

Cited across this Lean Meds 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.

See Lean Meds's current pricing

Plans start at $79 a month. Whether you qualify is a clinician's decision, made after your intake.