LifeMD Review
GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 7.9/10
Best for: bloodwork inside the monthly price rather than billed on top
What LifeMD does best is charge less than most of the register.
Covered by the monthly price
Medication
Charged on top
Clinician visits
In the price
Shipping
Not stated
Lab work
In the price
Coaching
In the price
No insurance needed · Vetted by our editors
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Editorial score · methodology
Editorial score · methodology
Editorial score · methodology
LifeMD at a glance
- Type
- GLP-1 telehealth provider
- Starting price
- $75/mo (First month $75, then $149/mo. Brand medication billed separately, or $0-$25/mo copay with commercial insurance.)
- What's included
- Consult · Labs · Coaching
- Availability
- All 50 states
- FDA status
- No FDA warning letter on record
How LifeMD scores
Six columns, each one computed from something LifeMD 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%
10.0/10$349/month is 72% below the register median of $1249 for brand tirzepatide.
Effectiveness25%
10.0/10Dispenses semaglutide and tirzepatide, including the FDA-approved product. Anchored to SURMOUNT-1 (tirzepatide, -20.9%) and STEP 1 (semaglutide, -14.9%).
User Experience15%
3.0/10On the seller's own pages, no price appears until the medical intake is finished.
Trust & Safety15%
6.0/10does not name a dispensing pharmacy; withholds price until after the intake; publishes its state list. Our verification confidence is high.
Accessibility10%
10.0/10Publishes coverage in 50 of 50 states.
Support10%
5.5/10The price covers consult, labs, coaching.
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 LifeMD
Last checked August 2026- Re-read the price on file across 4 dose or plan tiers
- Checked state coverage: all 50
- 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: high.
What signing up with LifeMD 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.
- 1LifeMD does not show a price until you have worked through its medical questionnaire. Budget for the fact that you cannot compare it against anything until you have handed over health information.
- 2The intake is a written questionnaire. No live video visit or baseline bloodwork is recorded as required.
- 3LifeMD 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 consult, labs, coaching.
- Cheapest standing monthly prices on record: a GLP-1 $149. Membership fees, first-month rates and insured copays are excluded from those figures.
- Coverage is published for all 50 states.
LifeMD support, as documented
- Phone
- (800) 852-1575
Pricing
Prices re-verified
First month $75, then $149/mo. Brand medication billed separately, or $0-$25/mo copay with commercial insurance.
Medication only; plus the $149/mo program fee.
Medication only (starting); plus the program fee. As low as $0-$25/mo with insurance.
Medication only; plus the $149/mo program fee.
Check the price yourself before you pay
Every figure here was read off LifeMD'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 $149 a month, 89% below the $1299 median for the same drug and form across this register
- Tirzepatide at $349 a month, 72% below the $1249 median for the same drug and form across this register
- The monthly figure covers consult, labs, coaching
- Coverage is published for all 50 states
- No FDA warning letter matched this operator when we searched our enforcement register
Against it
- No price appears until the medical intake is complete, so the cost cannot be compared before health information is submitted
- Billed separately from the monthly figure: medication
- No dispensing pharmacy is named in our record, so its accreditation cannot be looked up from here
What LifeMD charges
LifeMD charges $149/month. That sits at the affordable end of what we track.
- program-fee — $75 first month, then $149/month
- Brand-name wegovy — $149/month
- Brand-name wegovy — $199/month
- Brand-name zepbound — $349/month
Across the GLP-1 providers in our register the median standing price is about $169/month, so LifeMD is genuinely under the middle rather than merely advertising that it is.
What we could verify
On the record: it treats patients in all 50 states and coaching is included rather than sold on top. We searched the federal warning-letter record for this operator and came back with nothing. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price evidence is set out in our scoring methodology.
Who should look elsewhere
- You need to bill insurance. Like most of this market, this is cash-pay.
It fits if
- the lowest standing monthly cost is what you are solving for
- you want coaching bundled rather than metered
- you need access regardless of where you live
Our read
LifeMD competes on price and does it without an obvious sacrifice elsewhere: $149/month, no warning letter on file, and access that is not unusually restricted.
The Bottom Line
What LifeMD does best is charge less than most of the register.
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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 LifeMD review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.
Sources & methodology — as of August 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.
See LifeMD's current pricing
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