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Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 5.5/10

Best for: bloodwork inside the monthly price rather than billed on top

5.5
★★☆☆2.8/5

Lumora falls below our bar on medical oversight. Read the breakdown below before you give it money.

$199/mo

Covered by the monthly price

Medication

In the price

Clinician visits

In the price

Shipping

Not stated

Lab work

In the price

Coaching

Not stated

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Nothing is prescribed until a licensed provider has read the assessment. Follow-up, labs, medication and visit fees fall inside the plans. Sublingual and injectable forms of compounded tirzepatide and semaglutide are the core, with PT-141, gonadorelin, glutathione, sermorelin and NAD+ available as peptide therapies. Two physicians founded it: Dr. Shannon Arora, MD and Dr. Sean Arora, MD, both of Arora Health & Aesthetics. the operating entity is Blue Skies MD LLC, doing business as Lumora MD. All 50 U.S. states, HIPAA compliant, LegitScript certified.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed & fact-checked against primary sources · How we verify contentLast reviewed
Price after intakeIncludes medication + consultNo FDA letter on record

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Lumora at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide + Tirzepatide
Starting price
$199/mo (Compounded semaglutide injection (5 dose tiers; sublingual also offered). Estimated starting price; Lumora shows exac...)
What's included
Medication · Consult · Labs
FDA status
No FDA warning letter on record

How Lumora scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Lumora 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%

3.0/10

The figures published here are not comparable monthly cash prices for the medication — an insured copay, a per-vial rate, a membership fee or a starting-dose teaser. Capped rather than scored against the register.

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%

3.0/10

On the seller's own pages, no price appears until the medical intake is finished.

Trust & Safety15%

4.0/10

does not name a dispensing pharmacy; withholds price until after the intake. Our verification confidence is medium.

Accessibility10%

5.0/10

Publishes no list of states served, so coverage cannot be confirmed either way. Capped at the midpoint — this measures disclosure, not reach.

Support10%

7.0/10

The price covers medication, consult, labs.

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 Lumora

Last checked July 2026
  • Re-read the price on file across 2 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: medium.

What signing up with Lumora 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. 1Lumora 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.
  2. 2The intake is a written questionnaire. No live video visit or baseline bloodwork is recorded as required.
  3. 3Lumora 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.
  4. 4The monthly price is recorded as covering medication, consult, labs.
Price shown only after intake
  • No comparable monthly cash price for the medication is on record — either nothing is published, or what is published is a fee, an insured copay or a per-vial rate rather than a monthly cost.
  • No state list is published, so whether Lumora serves your state cannot be confirmed from its site.

Lumora support, as documented

Hours
Mon-Fri 8am-8pm ET

GLP-1 medications Lumora 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.

Peptides Lumora offers

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

Pricing

Prices re-verified

StartingCompounded
$199/mo
semaglutide

Compounded semaglutide injection (5 dose tiers; sublingual also offered). Estimated starting price; Lumora shows exact pricing (visit fees, medication, labs, follow-up) after a free online assessment.

StartingCompounded
$299/mo
tirzepatide

Compounded tirzepatide injection (6 dose tiers; sublingual also offered). Estimated starting price; exact pricing is shown after a free online assessment.

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here was read off Lumora'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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In its favor

  • The monthly figure covers medication, consult, labs
  • 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
  • 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 Lumora charges

Lumora lists $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 — $299/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 Lumora dispenses

Lumora 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.

A needle-free oral option is genuinely uncommon and is the reason some readers will look at Lumora 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

On the record: it treats patients in all 50 states. 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 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

  • injections are the thing keeping you from starting
  • you need access regardless of where you live

Our read

Lumora costs more than the middle of this market, and the oral option is the clearest thing that premium buys. 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

Lumora falls below our bar on medical oversight. Read the breakdown below before you give it money.

Score: 5.5/10Best for: bloodwork inside the monthly price rather than billed on topFrom: $199/mo

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Starting at $199/month. Check today's price, then book the free consultation.

Where Lumora 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 Found.
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

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Sources

Cited across this Lumora 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 FrameworkU.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 StandardsAccreditation 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@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  8. 8.FDA — Ozempic (semaglutide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDAU.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@FDAU.S. Food & Drug Administration.
  11. 11.FDA — Mounjaro (tirzepatide) Prescribing Information via Drugs@FDAU.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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