The cheapest way to get Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro, TRT, or HRT care, compared.
Three ways to pay for the same category of clinician-led care — GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro, TRT, or HRT — retail cash-pay, a typical subscription telehealth brand, and a discount membership. Pick a category below to see the range.
Full retail rate, no membership discount, billed per visit or per refill.
$450–$550/mo
Typical subscription telehealth
Bundled subscription pricing, varies by brand and often changes after an intro period.
$300–$450/mo
Basecare Premier membership
Member price on the same category of clinician-led GLP-1 weight care.
$297/mo
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Why the numbers differ
It's not the care that changes price. It's how you pay for it.
Cash-pay retail
No negotiated rate
You pay the sticker price for each visit or refill, with no volume discount behind it.
Subscription telehealth
Bundled, but still retail-anchored
Subscription pricing often looks lower than pure cash-pay, but it's still built around retail margins, not a member discount.
Discount membership
Fee unlocks the discount
The membership fee is separate from the treatment price, and it's what unlocks the negotiated member rate in the first place.
Questions
The honest answers.
Across all three categories, a discount membership like Basecare Premier tends to beat both solo cash-pay retail and typical subscription telehealth pricing, because the membership fee unlocks a pre-negotiated member rate instead of a retail markup. This applies whether your clinician prescribes a GLP-1 medication like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, or Mounjaro, or a TRT/HRT protocol. The exact cheapest path still depends on how many categories you use and how long you stay on a program.
Retail pricing varies by drug and dose. Wegovy and Zepbound are typically priced toward the higher end of the GLP-1 category's retail range, while generic or compounded semaglutide options can run lower. Basecare's member pricing applies to the weight care program itself; your clinician determines which medication fits your labs and goals.
Availability depends on what your Altro Health clinician determines is clinically appropriate for you. Brand-name and compounded/generic semaglutide both fall under the same GLP-1 weight care category, priced at your Basecare member rate either way.
Sometimes, if your plan covers the specific treatment and you're willing to navigate prior authorization and network restrictions. Many weight care, TRT, and HRT telehealth programs aren't consistently covered, which is exactly the gap a discount membership is built to fill.
Most subscription telehealth pricing bundles the clinician visit and the membership-style access into one retail price. Basecare unbundles that: the membership fee is separate from the treatment, so the treatment itself is priced at a member rate instead of a retail rate.
Yes, and it shifts further in favor of a membership. One Basecare membership fee unlocks member pricing across the GLP-1 category (Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro), TRT, HRT, longevity, and labs, so the math improves every additional category you use.