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Nimbus Healthcare Review

Semaglutide & tirzepatide GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 8.1/10

Best for: people who want a flat price at every dose from a seller that compounds in its own named pharmacy

8.1
★★★★☆8.1/10

Nimbus Healthcare scores highest on the clinical side (which drugs it prescribes and how it doses) and lowest on follow-up care, and it serves 35 states. It charges from $129 a month, paid up front; its compounded semaglutide, at $179, is 10% below the $199 median among the sellers we compare.

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$129/mo

charged as a multi-month plan up front

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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Nimbus Healthcare is an Austin, Texas telehealth company founded by a compounding pharmacist, whose WeightWise program fills compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide at a pharmacy it owns. Both drugs are mixed with L-carnitine and sold under its own names, CarniSema and CarniTide, at one price for every dose. Semaglutide is $179 a month, or $129 a month on a 6-month plan; tirzepatide is $299, or $219 on the 6-month plan. Medication does not auto-refill.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed. Not medical advice · How we verify contentLast reviewed
Price shown up frontFlat across dosesIncludes medication + consult35 states and DCPharmacy namedNo FDA warning letters found

Is Nimbus Healthcare legit?

Yes. Nimbus Healthcare is a real, operating US company, and we found no FDA warning letters issued to it. We rate it 8.1/10 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 Nimbus Healthcare promo or coupon code?

We know of no promo or coupon code for Nimbus Healthcare. Its listed price is $129 a month. Coupon sites advertising "Nimbus Healthcare discount codes" are not a source we can vouch for, and any genuine offer shows at checkout without a code.

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Nimbus Healthcare at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide, Tirzepatide
Starting price
$129/mo
Pricing model
Flat: the price stays the same as the dose goes up
What's included
Medication · Consult · Shipping
Availability
35 states + DC
FDA status
No FDA warning letters found

How Nimbus Healthcare scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Nimbus Healthcare 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%

5.8/10

$179/month is 10% below the $199 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare. A cheaper plan paid several months up front is also listed.

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%

10.0/10

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

Accessibility10%

7.6/10

Serves 35 of 50 states and DC.

Support10%

7.0/10

The price covers the medication, clinician visits and shipping.

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Everychecked against the seller's own site
Value 25%Effectiveness 25%User Experience 15%Trust & Safety 15%Accessibility 10%Support 10%

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What we checked on Nimbus Healthcare

Last checked November 2026
  • Checked the listed price across 6 dose or plan tiers
  • Checked state coverage: 35 states
  • Checked what the monthly price covers, and what it leaves out
  • Recorded which pharmacies the seller names as filling its prescriptions, with the page and date
  • Checked FDA warning letters for Nimbus Healthcare

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 Nimbus Healthcare 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. 1Nimbus Healthcare 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. 2Lake Hills Pharmacy fills the prescriptions, and Nimbus Healthcare 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 $129, tirzepatide $219. That leaves out membership fees, first-month rates and insurance copays.
  • Nimbus Healthcare serves 35 of 50 states and DC, so check that yours is one of them.
  • 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 Nimbus Healthcare

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Email answered within 1 business day; AI chat 24/7

Cancelling Nimbus Healthcare

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

Cancel any time
Yes
Minimum commitment
None on the month-to-month plan (it stops if you skip the refill check-in); 3- and 6-month plans run to the end of the term
Refund policy
Refund Policy: "refunds are not available after your prescription has been approved and processed." Help center: on 3- and 6-month plans "Mid-term cancellations with a refund are considered on a case-by-case basis".

Medications Nimbus Healthcare lists

Nimbus Healthcare lists compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide. Each one has its own guide: how it works, the dosing schedule, the side effects that show up in practice, and what the trials measured.

Pricing

Prices re-verified

CarniSema (semaglutide with L-carnitine), month-to-month, same price at every doseCompounded
$179/mo
semaglutide

Plan card: "1-Month ... $179/mo Pay only when you refill, no upcharges as your dose changes." Help center: includes "medication, clinical supervision of the regime as well as shipping".

CarniSema 3-month plan, $447 for the term (paid up front or monthly with Klarna)Compounded
$149/mo
semaglutide

Help center: "3-Month Subscription: $447 total ($149/month)". Plan card: "Pay upfront or monthly with Klarna." Cannot be canceled mid-term.

CarniSema 6-month plan, $774 for the term (paid up front or monthly with Klarna)Compounded
$129/mo
semaglutide

Help center: "6-Month Subscription: $774 total ($129/month)". Cannot be canceled mid-term.

CarniTide (tirzepatide with L-carnitine), month-to-month, same price at every doseCompounded
$299/mo
tirzepatide

Plan card: "1-Month ... $299/mo". Help center: includes medication, clinical supervision and shipping.

CarniTide 3-month plan, $747 for the term (paid up front or monthly with Klarna)Compounded
$249/mo
tirzepatide

Help center: "3-Month Subscription: $747 total ($249/month)". Cannot be canceled mid-term.

CarniTide 6-month plan, $1,314 for the term (paid up front or monthly with Klarna)Compounded
$219/mo
tirzepatide

Help center: "6-Month Subscription: $1,314 total ($219/month)". Cannot be canceled mid-term.

Check the price yourself before you pay

Every figure here comes from Nimbus Healthcare's own website, as of the date shown. Sellers move prices without announcing it, and promotional rates lapse, so confirm the standing cost on their site before committing.

See Nimbus Healthcare pricing →

Nimbus Healthcare compounding-pharmacy partners

Nimbus Healthcare names each pharmacy below as one that compounds or fills its prescriptions, in its own site, terms or filings. The quote under each one is the seller’s own wording.

Lake Hills Pharmacy

  • NABP
Additives
L-carnitine
“Compounded fresh at our owned and operated pharmacy in Austin, TX. ... Compounded GLP-1, doctor-prescribed, made in our NABP-accredited pharmacy. (footer link: Pharmacy -> Lake Hills Pharmacy, "An NABP-accredited 503A compounding pharmacy")”

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In its favor

  • Semaglutide costs $179 a month, 10% below the $199 median for compounded semaglutide across the sellers we compare
  • Tirzepatide costs $299 a month, close to the $269 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
  • Names Lake Hills Pharmacy as the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions, which most sellers do not
  • We found no FDA warning letters issued to Nimbus Healthcare

Against it

  • Serves only 35 states and DC, so check that yours is one of them
  • 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 Nimbus Healthcare charges

Nimbus Healthcare charges $129/month, and holds that rate across every dose. 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 (monthly): $179/month
  • Compounded semaglutide (3-month plan): $149/month
  • Compounded semaglutide (6-month plan): $129/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide (monthly): $299/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide (3-month plan): $249/month
  • Compounded tirzepatide (6-month plan): $219/month

For compounded semaglutide, the median across the sellers we compare is $199/month, so Nimbus Healthcare's $179 is genuinely below the middle, not just advertised that way. Some of Nimbus Healthcare's plans are paid several months up front, so read the terms you agree to at checkout before you choose a longer one. For scale, the dearest tenth of compounded sellers charges about three times the cheapest tenth.

bmiMD, at about $129/month, is the closest like-for-like alternative we review.

What Nimbus Healthcare dispenses

Nimbus Healthcare 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. For what differs besides the price, see compounded semaglutide vs Ozempic and Wegovy.

Safety and disclosure

Nimbus Healthcare tells you its price before you start the medical questionnaire, the 35 states it serves, and the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. We found no FDA warning letters issued to Nimbus Healthcare. Because the medication is compounded, the named pharmacy is the detail that matters most: its license is the one you can look up. The FDA publishes seven warning signs for telehealth medicine sellers, and they take a minute to run against Nimbus Healthcare. 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 Nimbus Healthcare 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

Our read

Nimbus Healthcare competes on price without an obvious sacrifice elsewhere: $179/month for compounded semaglutide, no FDA warning letters.

The Bottom Line

Nimbus Healthcare scores highest on the clinical side (which drugs it prescribes and how it doses) and lowest on follow-up care, and it serves 35 states. It charges from $129 a month, paid up front; its compounded semaglutide, at $179, is 10% below the $199 median among the sellers we compare.

Score: 8.1/10Best for: people who want a flat price at every dose from a seller that compounds in its own named pharmacyFrom: $129/mo

Before you pay Nimbus Healthcare

Starting at $129 a month. Check today's price, then start the intake.

Where Nimbus Healthcare 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 WellMedRx.
  • If the standing monthly cost is what decides it, consider Collective (from $59/mo + membership).
  • If you want a human checking in, not just a prescription, consider Eden.

If none of these fits, our guide to alternatives to Nimbus Healthcare sets more sellers in the same category beside Nimbus Healthcare on price, states and what the price includes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Nimbus Healthcare is an Austin, Texas telehealth company founded by a compounding pharmacist, whose WeightWise program fills compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide at a pharmacy it owns. Both drugs are mixed with L-carnitine and sold under its own names, CarniSema and CarniTide, at one price for every dose. Semaglutide is $179 a month, or $129 a month on a 6-month plan; tirzepatide is $299, or $219 on the 6-month plan. Medication does not auto-refill. We rate it 8.1/10 overall.
Nimbus Healthcare starts at $129 a month. That number holds across doses, so titrating up does not move the bill. The pricing table above lists every tier.
Nimbus Healthcare names 35 states. Check that yours is on the list before you go any further.
Nimbus Healthcare lists compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide.
Nimbus Healthcare 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 Nimbus Healthcare bills your insurance before you sign up. It also takes FSA and HSA cards. Compounded GLP-1s are rarely covered by insurance, so plan on paying the listed cash price.
Nimbus Healthcare 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. Nimbus Healthcare runs that whole sequence on its own site.
We found no FDA warning letters issued to Nimbus Healthcare. Before you buy, weigh these: Serves only 35 states and DC, so check that yours is one of them. 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 Nimbus Healthcare out, but each is worth settling before you pay.
Other sellers we cover include bmiMD, Live Vital, and Ivim Health. Which one fits depends on the medication, the monthly price you can sustain and whether it ships to your state, so compare those three facts before you switch.

How to check Nimbus Healthcare yourself

Every seller that ships to your state, side by side: District of Columbia, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia and every other state.

Glossary

The words sellers use, defined. Tap any term.

Sources

Cited across this Nimbus Healthcare review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.

Sources & methodology — as of November 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 (Aronne LJ et al.)— New England Journal of Medicine.PMID: 40353578.

See Nimbus Healthcare's current pricing

Plans start at $129 a month. Whether you qualify is a clinician's decision, made after your intake.