Leadwest Medical

Medications offered

As listed on the provider’s own site. Whether a product is FDA-approved or compounded is the single most important distinction here — we explain why.

• Wegovy (semaglutide)FDA-approved
• Ozempic (semaglutide)FDA-approved
• Mounjaro (tirzepatide)FDA-approved
• Zepbound (tirzepatide)FDA-approved
• SemaglutideType not stated
• TirzepatideType not stated

What they publish

Leadwest Medical publishes 7 of 12 standard terms. Fields marked “not publicly disclosed” were not stated on the pages we captured, and we have not filled those gaps with assumptions. Compare disclosure across providers

Membership / programme fee

No membership — charged as professional telehealth service fees. A $100 consultation is published, applied as a credit to your medication order (as published)

Medication cost

Priced as service fees per cycle plus roughly $30 per one-month cycle for care logistics and shipping coordination. Published worked examples show semaglutide service fees of $250, $300 and $350 across three months totalling $900, discounted 15% to $765; and tirzepatide fees of $450, $550 and $650 totalling $1,650, discounted to $1,403. States retail costs for Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound or Mounjaro without insurance are also available (as published)

Introductory offer

Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.

Insurance

States it prescribes branded medication with insurance and generic for out-of-pocket patients, and that retail cash prices for the branded products are available.

HSA / FSA

Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.

Consultation process

Online account and health questionnaire stated to take under five minutes, then a same-day appointment in person or by telehealth to discuss labs, symptoms and options. States follow-ups and messaging with the care team are available.

Eligibility

States services are offered in California and Nevada. Clinical criteria such as a BMI threshold were not published on the pages we captured.

Lab work

States labs can be ordered as part of the intake where necessary, before the provider visit.

Pharmacy fulfilment

States prescriptions are sent to a local pharmacy of your choosing, which can dispense or ship. No captive pharmacy is required.

Shipping

States the prescription goes to a local pharmacy for collection or is shipped to your home, with a separate published logistics and shipping coordination charge of about $30 per month.

Support services

Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.

Cancellation

Cancellation terms were not published on the pages we captured.

Refunds

Refund terms were not published on the pages we captured.

What stands out

• Prices its own work as a professional service fee separate from the medication, and publishes worked three-month examples with the discount arithmetic shown. That structure makes the clinician's fee visible rather than buried in a blended monthly price.
• Separates out a care logistics and shipping coordination charge of about $30 a month rather than folding it in — unusual, and it means the advertised service fee is not the whole bill.
• Credits the $100 consultation against the medication order.
• Sends prescriptions to a pharmacy of your choosing rather than a captive fulfilment channel, and offers both branded-through-insurance and out-of-pocket routes.
• The service fees escalate month by month in the published examples — $250, then $300, then $350 for semaglutide — so cost rises with treatment even though it is framed as a professional fee.
• Weight management sits within an unusually broad practice that also covers testosterone therapy, state disability certification, IHSS SOC 873 forms, emotional support animal letters, DMV handicap placards and medico-legal documentation for toxic mould litigation.
• Uses the word 'generic' for non-branded semaglutide and tirzepatide. There is no FDA-approved generic of either; the non-branded route is compounded, which is a materially different thing.

Questions to ask before you pay

These are things we could not settle from published pages, or that we think are easy to misread. Get answers in writing.

• The published examples show service fees rising each month. What is the full three or six-month total, including the $30 monthly logistics charge and the medication itself?
• The site describes non-branded semaglutide and tirzepatide as 'generic'. Is it compounded? There is no approved generic of either medication.
• Does the service fee include the medication, or is the pharmacy bill separate?
• Is your state covered — the published reach is California and Nevada.
• No refund or cancellation terms are published.
• What lab work is required, and what does it cost?

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