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Riccio Family Pharmacy

Riccio Family Pharmacy

Riccio Family Pharmacy publishes compounded injections from $149/month, compounded tablets from $249/month and original brand injections from $1,999/month. Seeing all three from one dispenser is the clearest published statement of what the regulatory difference costs.

Sources captured · researched by Tom

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.

  • Compounded semaglutide injectionCompounded · not FDA-approved
  • Compounded tabletsCompounded · not FDA-approved
  • Brand-name GLP-1 injectionFDA-approved

What they publish

Riccio Family Pharmacy publishes 3 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
Not a subscription — a dispensing pharmacy
Medication cost
Compounded injections published from $149/month, compounded tablets from $249/month, and original brand injections from $1,999/month; a $299 to $149 sale price also published (as published)
Introductory offer
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Insurance
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
HSA / FSA
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Consultation process
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Eligibility
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Lab work
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Pharmacy fulfilment
Is itself the dispensing pharmacy, publishing prices for compounded and brand-name products side by side.
Shipping
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Support services
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Cancellation
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.
Refunds
Not publicly disclosed on the pages we captured.

What stands out

  • Publishing compounded at $149 and the brand original at $1,999 in the same list is a 13-fold gap stated by the dispenser rather than by a marketer.
  • Also offers compounded tablets, an oral route further removed from the injectable products the trials studied.
  • A community pharmacy publishing prices at all is rare — it lets you sanity-check what any clinic charges on top.

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.

  • You still need a prescription; this is dispensing, not prescribing.
  • Compounded oral tablets are further from the trial evidence than compounded injectables. Ask what supports the formulation.
  • Ask whether it is a 503A or 503B facility.

May suit

People with a prescription who want to see compounded and brand pricing from the same dispenser.

Limitations

  • Compounded products are not FDA-approved.
  • No clinical service included.

Sources

Captured . Pages change — check the current version before relying on anything here.

Worth comparing against

Compounded

Melrose Pharmacy

Melrose Pharmacy

A named compounding pharmacy publishing its actual vial prices

Membership
No membership fee
Medication
Included
Publishes3/12 terms
Compounded

Promise Pharmacy

Promise Pharmacy

A compounding pharmacy that supplies clinics — the layer behind many consumer brands

Membership
Not published
Medication
Not published
Publishes2/12 terms
Brand-nameCompounded

Center for Medical Weight Loss

Center for Medical Weight Loss

Publishes compounded and brand-name plans side by side, and the gap is enormous

Membership
from $195/mo
Medication
Included
Publishes1/12 terms