By JOHN SAMARAS
Noom Med costs a GLP-1 plan at $249 a month. The final two phrases on the road matter.
“$129 To get began. $249/mo after the primary 4-week provide (billed quarterly).”
That’s Noom’s pricing web page on November 3, 2026. If a quarterly cost covers three months at $249, it involves $747.
In a Buzz Well being survey of 256 pharmacists in July, 68 p.c reported extra cash-pay GLP-1 gross sales over the previous 12 months. Pay money and your well being plan could by no means see the acquisition.
The $149 worth that provides as much as $298
Hims’ weight-loss web page, learn the identical day, lists the Wegovy capsule “From $149/mo.” A small mark results in a footnote. That worth “contains treatment solely,” and the required membership is “$39 for the primary month, auto-renews at $149/month thereafter.”
On the lowest printed worth, drug plus membership involves $298 a month after month one, billed individually.
Regulators have seen
On December 3, 2025, the FTC gave ultimate approval to an order in opposition to the telehealth firm NextMed, which it had alleged “bought weight-loss applications with undisclosed prices and membership commitments.” NextMed and its principals should pay $150,000.
In July 2026 the FTC, Utah and California sued Hims & Hers, alleging amongst different issues that the corporate fails to “clearly and conspicuously inform customers when their prescriptions shall be refilled every month.” That case is pending.
Each circumstances got here after the very fact. The FTC’s charge rule, in impact since Could 2025, reaches solely live-event tickets and short-term lodging. California goes wider: since July 1, 2024, most companies there can’t record a worth that leaves out required charges, apart from sure authorities taxes and delivery prices.
Put the billing phrases beside the worth
Wherever a purchaser picks a money GLP-1 plan, print the quantity of every cost and the way typically it lands beside the month-to-month worth, together with any recurring charge. A purchaser might then work out the primary 12 months from one web page.
Noom would print the quarterly cost. Hims would present the membership beside the drug worth.
The FTC might write that into its subsequent order. An employer that reimburses money purchases might ask for it.
Collective prints it. Collective sells compounded semaglutide, which is made by a pharmacy and isn’t FDA-approved. Its web page, learn November 3, prints “$59/month + $199 annual membership,” the identical worth at any dose.
The membership is required, begins with a 21-day free trial and is billed yearly. A purchaser can work out $907 for the primary 12 months from that one line.
See the invoice earlier than your card does
Paying money? Earlier than you sort in a card quantity, examine each money GLP-1 program facet by facet on the GLP Chart homepage, then discover the billing line on this system’s personal web page.
John Samaras is the founding father of GLP Chart, which checks the revealed money costs of the US GLP-1 telehealth applications it tracks each Monday and earns a fee when a reader indicators up with some applications, together with Collective.
