Metabolic-Fit / 100
MD Exam review
Two businesses are described on this one site. The homepage sells a flat program — "as low as $225 per month, which includes telemedicine visits, nutrition and exercise coaching, and medication." The FAQ says it accepts most major insurance, that your cost depends on your plan, and explains how to fax your insurance details in. Nothing reconciles them. The same page also carries two different Miami addresses and two different support addresses.
- HSA / FSA-eligible
- Editor-vetted
- No insurance needed
Elena Voss is a mother writing for mothers, not a treating clinician, and holds no medical license. Every clinical figure in this piece is cited inline to its primary source — the trial or the FDA label — so you can open it and check us. This is background reading, not medical advice.
MD Exam at a glance
- Semaglutide
- From $225/mo including medication, plus a $50 consultation
- Tirzepatide
- Not priced separately
- Coverage
- Not published
- Brand-name
- Compounded only
How we scored MD Exam
Every factor comes from MD Exam's own published pricing, disclosures and oversight, and the six combine into the 42/100 Metabolic-Fit Score by the same weighted six-factor framework we apply to every provider — never nudged by whether a provider pays us.
Cost is unpredictable or sits at the premium end.
No postpartum or breastfeeding framing — a generic weight program.
Thin on the hormonal picture that drives many mothers' weight.
Support is thin once the prescription ships.
Oversight and lab support fall short of the top of this roster — the review below says exactly where.
Exit terms are the weak point: lock-in, notice periods, or a cancellation you have to chase.
How we verified this review
- Last verified
- August 2026
- Confidence
- low
- Primary source
- mdexam.com
Read on 18 August 2026. MD Exam LLC advertises a program "priced as low as $225 per month, which includes telemedicine visits, nutrition and exercise coaching, and medication", with a $50 consultation fee charged separately. That figure is the only pricing published. Two things complicate it. The FAQ describes a different business entirely — that the practice accepts most major insurance, that the cost of a prescription depends on the plan, and how to fax insurance details in — and nothing on the site says which model a given patient falls under. And the same page carries two different Miami addresses with two different support email addresses. One claim was checked rather than accepted: its FAQ states that "the active ingredient, Semaglutide, has always been available", with any shortage attributed to the brand-name prefilled pen. The FDA's own shortage database, queried on the day of review, lists no active semaglutide injection shortage but does list semaglutide tablets as to be discontinued by their manufacturer. The characterization is the seller's and is unevidenced; this review does not assert the opposite, only that nothing supports it. No state list and no compounding pharmacy are published. It has no FDA warning letter.
What to expect when you sign up
We walked MD Exam's public signup funnel (August 2026) — a first-hand look at the flow. We don't create accounts, enter medical data, or complete checkout, so this is what any visitor sees, not a patient outcome.
- 1The signup call to action leaves mdexam.com for intake.mdexam.com, a separate host
What we noticed
- A monthly price is visible on the public homepage before any intake — you do not have to hand over information to see a number
- Intake is hosted on intake.mdexam.com, so the company you fill the form in with is not the domain you started on
Pricing
Prices re-verified
| Medication | Monthly | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Compounded semaglutide | $225 | Program price, medication included"Our program is priced as low as $225 per month, which includes telemedicine visits, nutrition and exercise coaching, and medication." ⚠ A $50 consultation fee is charged separately, and the FAQ separately says the practice bills most major insurance — two models on one site. |
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Many HSA and FSA plans cover GLP-1 telehealth — check yours. These figures are what MD Exam's own site disclosed at last review; this market re-prices often, so confirm the current number at the source.
What we like
- $225 a month including medication would sit at the affordable end of this roster
- Nutrition and exercise coaching are described as part of the program rather than as add-ons
- It engages with insurance at all, which most of this cash-pay market declines to
- Names its operating entity and publishes a toll-free number
The caveats
- ⛔ A flat cash program and an insurance-billing model are described on the same site with nothing to reconcile them
- ⛔ Two different Miami addresses and two different support email addresses appear on one page
- Its claim that the active ingredient "has always been available" is the seller's own and is not what the FDA shortage record shows
- A $50 consultation fee sits outside the advertised monthly figure
- An unrendered FAQ prefix leaks into the copy — "A: Our program is priced…"
- No state list and no compounding pharmacy named
MD Exam for mothers: our verdict
Two businesses are described on this one site. The homepage sells a flat program — "as low as $225 per month, which includes telemedicine visits, nutrition and exercise coaching, and medication." The FAQ says it accepts most major insurance, that your cost depends on your plan, and explains how to fax your insurance details in. Nothing reconciles them. The same page also carries two different Miami addresses and two different support addresses. It runs about $225/month — a premium to the category, so the extras have to earn it.
We weigh MD Exam the way mothers actually have to: not just the monthly cost, but postpartum and breastfeeding timing and PCOS and insulin resistance — the parts a general weight-loss roundup leaves out.
What MD Exam costs, in full
- Compounded semaglutide — Program price, medication included: $225/mo
For context, the typical ongoing price across our roster is around $179/month, so MD Exam sits at the premium end.
MD Exam says the price covers the provider visit, the medication and coaching. That is the comparison that matters at this price: two providers a few dollars apart can differ by a hundred a month once the extras are counted, so line up what each one bundles before you decide.
The medications MD Exam prescribes
MD Exam prescribes semaglutide (the active drug in Wegovy and Ozempic). These are compounded formulations from a licensed pharmacy — the reason the price stays down — but compounded GLP-1s aren't FDA-approved finished products the way Wegovy and Zepbound are.
Where MD Exam fits — and where it doesn't — for mothers
A good fit if…
- you want a straightforward semaglutide program and will confirm the details before you commit.
Look elsewhere if…
- you specifically want an FDA-approved brand pen with its own pregnancy and lactation labeling.
- you'd rather a prescriber talk through timing around postpartum and breastfeeding timing — that is the ground our #1 pick, CoreAge Rx, is built on.
Oversight, safety, and what we could verify
Our confidence here is limited: what MD Exam publishes is thin or self-contradictory in places, so parts of the picture are not settled — treat the figures below as its own claims until you have them in writing. As with any compounded GLP-1, the most useful thing mothers can do is confirm which licensed pharmacy fills the prescription and what's in the formulation — we explain how we weigh oversight in our scoring methodology.
A standing caveat for mothers: GLP-1 medications aren't established as safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding, and every label advises against use. Nothing here changes that — plan the timing with your own clinician.
The bottom line
MD Exam is a provider we can only partly verify — weigh it on postpartum and breastfeeding timing and PCOS and insulin resistance against the alternatives below. For most mothers, CoreAge Rx remains the stronger all-round fit — see why it tops our ranking.
The bottom line for mothers
Best for: A mother who will phone and establish which of the two business models applies to her before she starts.
Alternatives to MD Exam
Providers we have a referral relationship with, ordered by their Metabolic-Fit Score — highest first. This module leaves out the provider whose page you are reading, so on CoreAge Rx's own review our #1 pick is the one name you will not find here. These are not the whole roster: see the full ranking for every provider we cover, paid or not.
- Visit CoreAge Rx92
Metabolic-Fit / 100
CoreAge RxOur #1 pickOne flat price, both molecules on a single chart, and a prescriber who reads your history before writing — the most predictable place for a mother to start and, just as important, to pause.
- Visit Gala Health84
Metabolic-Fit / 100
A flat $179 for either molecule with a genuinely gentle microdosing tier — a reasonable, all-doses-included option if you can live with a yearly plan and a pharmacy it doesn't name.
- Visit Enhance MD81
Metabolic-Fit / 100
One of the more oversight-forward compounded programs here — lab work and a live provider visit bundled into every plan, with a gentle microdosing tier — the catch is that the low '$212' headline you'll see quoted is the 12-month prepay rate, not the $249 you'd pay month to month.
Keep comparing MD Exam
Head-to-head & alternatives
MD Exam, answered
- How much does MD Exam cost?
- At last review, MD Exam's lowest ongoing compounded rate was about $225 a month — From $225/mo including medication, plus a $50 consultation for semaglutide, Not priced separately for tirzepatide. This market re-prices often, so check the current all-in figure at the source before committing.
- Is MD Exam safe to use while breastfeeding?
- Nothing in this class — compounded or brand — has been established as safe in pregnancy or lactation, and every label advises against use. MD Exam is not an exception to that. Plan a GLP-1 for after weaning and settle the timing with your own clinician.
- Does MD Exam offer both semaglutide and tirzepatide?
- MD Exam's tirzepatide access isn't consistently disclosed; it's primarily a semaglutide program as last verified. If you specifically want tirzepatide, confirm availability first.
- Where does MD Exam rank for mothers?
- MD Exam scores 42/100 on our Metabolic-Fit Score and sits at #171. That score is a weighted read of six things mothers actually have to care about. CoreAge Rx currently leads it — see how they compare.
Pricing, states and verification reflect MD Exam's public disclosures at last review; the Metabolic-Fit Score is our editorial judgment per the published methodology. This is background reading, not medical advice — GLP-1 medications are not established as safe in pregnancy or breastfeeding. See our medical disclaimer and how we're funded.