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Risen Labs Review

GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth · Independently scored 4.1/10

Best for: New York or Colorado adults who want a live video visit before any compounded GLP-1 prescription

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★★☆☆☆4.1/10

Risen Labs scores highest on disclosure and lowest on availability, and it serves 2 states.

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Prices checked October 2026

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Risen Labs is a Texas telehealth company, formed in May 2026, that prescribes compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide injections and testosterone therapy to patients in New York and Colorado only. Every patient has a live video visit; a $120 consult fee is charged only if the provider approves treatment, and medication is paid at the pharmacy. Olympia Pharmacy, a 503A compounder, dispenses. No medication price is posted.

By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
Editorially reviewed. Not medical advice · How we verify contentLast reviewed
Price after intake2 statesPharmacy namedNo FDA warning letters foundVideo visit required

Is Risen Labs legit?

Yes. Risen Labs is a real, operating US company, and we found no FDA warning letters issued to it. It says its medication comes from accredited compounding pharmacies (503A, 503B or PCAB). We rate it 4.1/10 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 Risen Labs promo or coupon code?

We know of no promo or coupon code for Risen Labs. Coupon sites advertising "Risen Labs discount codes" are not a source we can vouch for, and any genuine offer shows at checkout without a code.

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Risen Labs at a glance

Type
GLP-1 telehealth provider
Medications
Semaglutide, Tirzepatide
Availability
2 states
FDA status
No FDA warning letters found

How Risen Labs scores

Six columns, each one computed from something Risen Labs 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%

3.0/10

There is no monthly price to compare, so Value is capped rather than scored against other sellers.

Effectiveness25%

5.0/10

No medication list or price is available to score, so this is held at the midpoint. It is not a judgment on the drugs themselves.

User Experience15%

2.5/10

No price appears until the medical intake is finished. A live video visit is required, which is slower but the more careful intake.

Trust & Safety15%

6.5/10

It names the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions. Its price appears only after the medical intake. It lists the states it serves.

Accessibility10%

2.3/10

Serves 2 of 50 states.

Support10%

5.0/10

No published price, so what a price would include cannot be assessed. Held at the midpoint.

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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 Risen Labs

Last checked October 2026
  • Checked state coverage: 2 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 Risen Labs

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 Risen Labs 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. 1Risen Labs shows a price only after you finish its medical questionnaire, so you cannot compare costs until you have shared health information.
  2. 2The intake requires a live video visit with a clinician before a first prescription, which takes longer than a written form and is the more careful route.
  3. 3Olympia Pharmacy fills the prescriptions, and Risen Labs names it publicly, which most sellers do not.
Price shown only after intakeLive video visit required
  • Before you commit, get the ongoing monthly price of the medication itself, not a first-month rate, a membership fee or a per-vial price.
  • Risen Labs serves 2 of 50 states, so check that yours is one of them.

Contacting Risen Labs

Email
Risen Labs offers email support

Cancelling Risen Labs

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

Cancel any time
Yes
Minimum commitment
None stated
Refund policy
The $120 consult fee is non-refundable once treatment is approved; dispensed medication cannot be returned
Early-termination fee
None

Medications Risen Labs lists

Risen Labs 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.

Risen Labs compounding-pharmacy partners

Risen Labs 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.

Olympia Pharmacy

“Pharmacy: Medications are dispensed by our partner pharmacy, Olympia Pharmacy, a 503A compounding pharmacy.”

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In its favor

  • Names Olympia Pharmacy as the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions, which most sellers do not
  • We found no FDA warning letters issued to Risen Labs
  • A live video visit with a clinician is required before a prescription, which is slower than a form and is the more careful intake

Against it

  • You only see a price after finishing the medical intake, so you cannot compare costs before sharing health information
  • Not included in the monthly price: clinician visits
  • Serves only 2 states, so check that yours is one of them

What Risen Labs charges

There is no standard monthly price to quote for Risen Labs, so you cannot compare it with other sellers until you have been through an intake and received a quote. When you get one, ask for the ongoing monthly figure and what it includes, not the first-month rate and not a program total divided by its length. Before you pay, compare Risen Labs' cancellation terms with other sellers' cancellation and refund policies. Risen Labs is not alone in this: about a fifth of GLP-1 sellers publish no price at all.

What Risen Labs dispenses

Risen Labs 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.

Safety and disclosure

Risen Labs tells you the 2 states it serves, the pharmacy that fills its prescriptions, and that its pharmacy is accredited. We found no FDA warning letters issued to Risen Labs. The FDA publishes seven warning signs for telehealth medicine sellers, and they take a minute to run against Risen Labs. How we weigh oversight, disclosure and price is set out in our scoring methodology.

Who should look elsewhere

  • You want to compare prices before spending time on an intake. There is no standard monthly price to compare.
  • You need insurance to cover the cost. Check whether Risen Labs bills your plan before you start.

Our read

Whether Risen Labs is priced well is impossible to judge before an intake, because there is no standard price to compare. That does not rule it out, and plenty of legitimate sellers quote after intake, but it puts the comparison after you have spent the time, which is the wrong order for you as the buyer. WellMedRx is the nearest comparison we review, and worth reading alongside this.

The Bottom Line

Risen Labs scores highest on disclosure and lowest on availability, and it serves 2 states.

Score: 4.1/10Best for: New York or Colorado adults who want a live video visit before any compounded GLP-1 prescription

Before you pay Risen Labs

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Where Risen Labs is the wrong choice

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

  • If you want a human checking in, not just a prescription, consider Found.
  • If your state is outside the area this one covers, consider YourEra.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Risen Labs is a Texas telehealth company, formed in May 2026, that prescribes compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide injections and testosterone therapy to patients in New York and Colorado only. Every patient has a live video visit; a $120 consult fee is charged only if the provider approves treatment, and medication is paid at the pharmacy. Olympia Pharmacy, a 503A compounder, dispenses. No medication price is posted. We rate it 4.1/10 overall.
There is no standard monthly cash price to quote for Risen Labs, so you cannot compare it with other sellers until you have been through its intake. If you go ahead, ask for the ongoing monthly rate, not just the first month.
Risen Labs names 2 states. Check that yours is on the list before you go any further.
Risen Labs lists compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide.
Check whether Risen Labs bills your insurance before you sign up.
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. Risen Labs runs that whole sequence on its own site.
We found no FDA warning letters issued to Risen Labs. Before you buy, weigh these: You only see a price after finishing the medical intake, so you cannot compare costs before sharing health information. Not included in the monthly price: clinician visits. Serves only 2 states, so check that yours is one of them. None of them rules Risen Labs out, but each is worth settling before you pay.
Other sellers we cover include Embody, SnagRx, and Collective. 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 Risen Labs yourself

Every seller that ships to your state, side by side: Colorado, New York.

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Sources

Cited across this Risen Labs review: primary regulatory filings, and peer-reviewed studies.

Sources & methodology — as of October 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.

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