CoreAge Rx is the only provider in this comparison that genuinely does not run a subscription. Every order is a one-time purchase, refills are placed by you from the patient portal, and every dose costs the same, so titrating up does not move your bill. In a category built on auto-renewals and missed cancellation windows, that removes the single most common way people lose money here.
The problem is on the way in. The site quotes three different starting prices for the same treatment across three of its own pages, and the refund policy makes the $50 to $100 consultation fee non-refundable even if a provider declines you — the opposite of what the FAQ promises a few clicks away.
If the thing you are actually afraid of is a recurring charge you cannot stop, this is the closest thing to an answer on the whole site — with a caveat CoreAge has created for itself since we first published this review. The entry cost is the part to pin down, and it is a two-minute job rather than a reason to walk — get the consultation fee, and the price for your dose, confirmed in writing before you start the intake, then buy against that email. The terms you would be agreeing to, in full: compounded semaglutide from $99 a month and compounded tirzepatide from $149 a month, the same price at every dose, while the home page separately advertises GLP-1 treatment from $199 a month; one-time purchases with refills ordered manually rather than a subscription; cancellation is free only before a provider approves your prescription and it reaches the pharmacy, after which all sales are final; cancel a 6 or 12-month plan early and medication already shipped is re-billed at the 3-month rate; the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable; and compounded preparations are not FDA-approved.
Buy once, no subscription — CoreAge Rx ↗ Compare all sixteen providers
The CoreAge Rx button above is an affiliate link; the comparison link is not. Semaglutide from $99 a month and tirzepatide from $149 a month, the same price at every dose, bought once rather than subscribed — and the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable.
What this covers
What CoreAge Rx does well
We spend most of this site taking pricing pages apart, so it is worth being equally specific about what a provider gets right.
Six things we verified on CoreAge Rx’s own pages
- No subscription, and it means it. That is what the refund policy used to say. It no longer does. The version dated 13 August 2026 carries a section headed "One-Time Purchases, Subscriptions & Automatic Renewals" stating that CoreAge "may offer both one-time purchases and subscription plans with automatic renewals," and that enrolling in one authorises the company "to charge your selected payment method at each applicable renewal until you cancel the subscription." The FAQ still says there are "no membership fees, no auto-rebills, and no surprise charges." Both cannot be true, and CoreAge has not reconciled them.
- Your checkout price is held for future months. The FAQ commits to keeping the rate you lock in regardless of dose increases, and there are no membership fees or auto-rebills. Dose escalation is the normal course of treatment and it raises the bill at several providers here.
- $99 semaglutide ties for the cheapest real price we found, alongside Trimi Health — no promotional banner, no shortened billing cycle.
- It names the clinicians. The FAQ lists the specific physicians assigned to patients in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont, with their licence numbers. No other provider in this comparison does that.
- Fulfilment expectations are published: free standard shipping, 2 to 3 business days after the pharmacy ships, roughly 5 to 7 business days end to end when nothing stalls.
- Real contact detail. A support phone number and email are published, plus a LegitScript listing — more than several competitors provide.
What it is not
- Not a single published price. Three different floors appear on three pages of this site.
- Not a full refund if you are declined — the refund policy retains the consultation fee.
- Not FDA-approved medication, and the terms of use never mention compounding or the FDA at all.
- Not a discount you can walk away from. Leave a 6 or 12-month plan early and shipped medication is re-billed at the higher rate.
What it costs
| Plan | Advertised price | What the page actually says |
|---|---|---|
| Compounded semaglutide | Starting at $99/month | Product page price. Same price at every dose, no membership fee, free shipping |
| Compounded tirzepatide | Starting at $149/month | Product page price. Same price at every dose |
| GLP-1 treatment, home page | From $199/month | The weight-loss block on the home page quotes a higher floor than either product page |
| Provider consultation | $50 to $100 | Non-refundable under the refund policy. The FAQ describes the consultation as potentially no-cost and included |
| 1, 3, 6 and 12-month plans | Lower cost per month on longer terms | A 6-month plan ships a 3-month supply twice. A 12-month plan ships a 3-month supply four times |
Three numbers for one product is the first thing to deal with. The semaglutide product page says $99 a month and the tirzepatide page says $149 a month, both with the same price at every dose. The weight-loss block on the home page says GLP-1 treatment from $199 a month. Nothing on the site reconciles them, and we have not been through checkout, so we are reporting the published figures rather than a receipt. Treat the checkout total as the only number that counts.
Practical version: message support and get the consultation fee and the price for your dose confirmed in writing before you start the intake, then check the checkout total against that email and walk if it does not match. Whichever of the three figures turns out to govern, the structure underneath it does not move — the price is the same at every dose, so titrating up costs nothing extra; each order is a one-time purchase with refills ordered manually rather than a subscription, so on the FAQ’s account nothing renews; and the longer plans are a genuine saving provided you finish the term, because cancelling a 6 or 12-month plan early re-bills medication already shipped at the 3-month rate. These are compounded preparations, which are not FDA-approved.
Same price at every dose — check CoreAge Rx ↗ See who bills once and who bills forever
The CoreAge Rx link is an affiliate link; the comparison link is not. Compounded semaglutide from $99 a month and tirzepatide from $149 a month, the same price at every dose, with the home page separately advertising from $199 a month — and the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable.
The one-time purchase model is the real selling point
The refund policy used to be unusually direct about this, describing one-time purchases with no automatic recurring charges and no subscriptions. Its 13 August 2026 version instead provides for "subscription plans with automatic renewals" alongside one-time purchases. Refills are ordered manually through the portal whenever you choose. The FAQ goes further and commits to holding the price you lock in at checkout for all future months regardless of dose increases, and confirms there are no membership fees or auto-rebills. If the thing you dislike about this category is the silent renewal, this is the model that removes it.
It is worth being blunt about how rare that is. We track sixteen providers and annualise every one of them by charges per year; the range runs from one charge to about 17.4. CoreAge Rx is the one at the bottom of that range — the only true one-time purchase in the entire comparison. If you have ever been caught by a plan that renewed while you were still deciding whether to continue, this is the structural fix, and no amount of diary-keeping at another provider reproduces it.
The trade-off is sequencing. You pay before a clinician reviews your case. The FAQ explains why in plain terms, saying payment locks in your pricing and places you in the pharmacy queue. That is honest, but it means the money moves first and the clinical decision comes second, which is exactly the situation the refund wording below needs to be clear about, and is not.
The way to use that rather than be caught by it is simple: if you are not certain you will finish six or twelve months, buy the 1 or 3-month plan. Nothing auto-renews at the end of it, so the short plan carries no penalty for stopping and no clawback to trigger — you just do not place the next order.
The consultation fee contradiction
This is the detail we would want a straight answer on before entering a card, because CoreAge Rx publishes three positions on it.
The refund policy states that if you pay and a provider determines you are not eligible, a full refund is issued to your original payment method within 5 to 10 business days. Two headings later, the same document lists the provider consultation fee of $50 to $100 as non-refundable, and spells out that this applies even if your prescription is not approved. The FAQ then says the opposite again: that a consultation may be included at no cost with your order, and that if the provider does not approve your prescription the company automatically issues a 100 per cent refund.
Those three statements cannot all be true. In our experience of reading these documents, the refund policy is the one a company enforces, so plan for the fee to be retained and ask for written confirmation if the answer matters to you.
That written confirmation is the whole fix, and it costs you one email. Ask support, before you start the intake, what the consultation fee will be and whether it is returned if you are declined; get the answer in writing and you have converted an unresolved contradiction into a known, quantified number. Priced at its worst — the fee retained in full — you are looking at a one-off $50 to $100 on top of medication that is compounded, not FDA-approved, and that never bills you again unless you place another order.
The 30-day clause that closes the door
Buried in the refund policy is a finalisation rule with real teeth. Any order that remains active more than 30 days from the purchase date is treated as fulfilled professional medical service, regardless of shipment status, and no refund is issued after that point. The consultation, the provider review and the prescription preparation are all deemed complete.
Read that next to the delay list on the same page. Orders stall for incomplete intake forms, unreadable photo ID, unanswered provider follow-ups, missing lab results or records from a primary care physician, and unverified shipping addresses. Several of those depend on a third party. A patient waiting on records from their own doctor can therefore run down a 30-day clock that then removes their refund. If you are asked for documentation, treat it as urgent.
Put the cancellation rules end to end and the exit is at least knowable. Cancellation is free right up until a provider approves your prescription and it reaches the pharmacy; after that point all sales are final, and the 30-day finalisation clause shuts the door for good. So the sequence that keeps you on the right side of both: get the consultation fee confirmed in writing before you start the intake, have your ID, intake answers and any outside records ready on day one so nothing stalls, and make your decision before approval rather than after. Do that and what you have bought is the thing the rest of this comparison cannot sell you — a purchase that simply ends when you stop ordering. No auto-rebill, no membership fee, no renewal date to diarise, the same price at every dose, and refills only when you place them.
Order once, nothing renews — CoreAge Rx ↗ See every plan annualised
The CoreAge Rx link above is an affiliate link; the comparison link is not. Cancellation is free only before a provider approves your prescription and it reaches the pharmacy — after that all sales are final, and the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable even if you are declined.
What the terms do not say
CoreAge Rx dispenses compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide, which are not FDA-approved products. Its terms of use run to roughly 30,000 characters and do not mention compounding or the FDA anywhere. The semaglutide product page does not mention the FDA either. It says the medication is compounded in the USA, which is a manufacturing claim rather than a regulatory one.
The refund policy is the only document that makes the compounding explicit, and it does so in order to explain why nothing can be returned. That is the wrong end of the funnel for that information. Compare it with Embody, which prints the compounding disclaimer directly underneath the price, and see our guide to compounded versus FDA-approved GLP-1s for what that distinction actually means.
What that means for a buyer is not that the medication is undisclosed, but that you have to go and find the disclosure. Read our compounding guide first, decide there whether a compounded preparation is acceptable to you at all, and if the answer is no, no amount of price or billing structure should change it — go to the FDA-approved options instead. If the answer is yes, you are in the same regulatory position as at almost every other provider on this site, and the billing structure becomes the thing that actually differentiates them.
Who runs it
The refund policy names the operating entity as DSO Fine Shrimp LLC, doing business as CoreAge Rx, at 1309 Coffeen Avenue, Suite 1200, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801, and the terms of use repeat it. A support phone number and email are published, which is more contact detail than several competitors provide. The site carries a LegitScript listing link.
Two points of genuine transparency deserve credit. The FAQ names the specific physicians assigned to patients in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont, with their licence numbers. And the fulfilment expectations are stated: free standard shipping, 2 to 3 business days after the pharmacy ships, roughly 5 to 7 business days end to end when nothing stalls. Over-the-counter items, unlike prescriptions, can be returned unopened within 30 days.
Who this suits, and who it does not
CoreAge Rx is a reasonable fit if
- You actively do not want a subscription. Its FAQ says there are no auto-rebills and that refills are ordered manually by you; its refund policy of 13 August 2026 says otherwise.
- You expect to titrate upwards. Every dose is the same price and the FAQ commits to holding your checkout price for future months.
- You want the longer-term discount and are confident you will complete the full term.
- You are in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island or Vermont and want to know which clinician is being assigned before you pay.
Look elsewhere if
- You want the consultation fee returned if you are declined. The refund policy says you will not get it, whatever the FAQ implies. Our Trimi Health review covers the one provider here that returns the consultation fee as well as the medication cost.
- You want a single published price. Three different floors appear on three different pages of this site.
- Your order is likely to need lab work or records from another doctor. The 30-day finalisation clause penalises a stalled order even when the delay is documentation.
- You want the compounding status stated next to the price rather than inside a refund policy.
- You want an FDA-approved branded GLP-1. See our Ro weight loss review and Sesame review for the brand-name options in this comparison.
Reduced to one line: if your objection to this category is recurring billing you cannot switch off, CoreAge Rx is the provider on this site that answers it, and the two things standing in the way — the $50 to $100 non-refundable consultation fee and the three published prices — are both settled by one email asking support to confirm the fee and your dose price in writing before you start the intake. If instead your objection is that you want the consultation fee back when you are declined, or an FDA-approved branded medicine, the links above are the better use of your time; we would rather you bought correctly elsewhere than badly here.
See CoreAge Rx current plans — no auto-renewal ↗ Compare refund policies first
The CoreAge Rx link is an affiliate link; the refund-comparison link is not. One-time purchases with refills ordered manually, semaglutide from $99 a month and tirzepatide from $149 a month at every dose, compounded and not FDA-approved; the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable, and cancelling a 6 or 12-month plan early re-bills shipped medication at the 3-month rate. Verify every figure on the provider’s own site before you pay. Pricing and policy pages in this category change without notice.
Compare this against the rest of the market
One provider in isolation tells you very little. These pages run a single variable across all sixteen companies we track.
- Cheapest GLP-1 telehealth in 2026 — every plan annualised on its real billing interval.
- Compounded semaglutide prices compared
- Compounded tirzepatide prices compared
- Who bills once, who bills forever — charges per year range from one to about 17.4.
- Refund and cancellation policies compared
- Oral and sublingual GLP-1 providers compared
- Fourteen red flags to check before you pay
- The full sixteen-provider comparison table
How we sourced this
Prices were read from the CoreAge Rx home page and from its semaglutide and tirzepatide product pages. The one-time purchase model, the 1, 3, 6 and 12-month plan structure, the early-cancellation clawback, the refund conditions, the non-refundable consultation fee, the 30-day finalisation clause, the shipping terms and the operating entity were read from its published refund, return and shipping policy. The competing statements about consultation cost and approval refunds were read from its FAQ. The absence of compounding and FDA language was checked against its terms of use. Everything was read on the date at the top of this page. We have not been through checkout and we have not tested cancellation, so where we describe a policy we are reporting what the policy says. Terms change without notice — verify before you buy, and tell us on our contact page if you find a discrepancy.
Medical note
This is consumer purchasing information, not medical advice. GLP-1 medications carry real risks and contraindications, and compounded preparations are not FDA-approved or evaluated for safety, effectiveness or quality. Speak with a licensed clinician who knows your history before starting, stopping or switching a prescription. See our medical disclaimer.