By what they supply

Who sells compounded

17 of the 33 providers here supply compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide — medication prepared by a pharmacy rather than an FDA-approved product. It is legal, it is usually far cheaper, and it starts at $49 a month. It is also the category regulators spent the last year writing to.

What compounded actually means

A compounding pharmacy prepares a medication rather than a manufacturer producing an approved one. The practice is legitimate and long-standing. But a compounded drug has not been through FDA review for safety and effectiveness, and the FDA does not approve or license the facilities that make it — so a company describing its product as coming “from an FDA-approved pharmacy” is saying something that cannot be true of anyone.

That is what most of the enforcement has been about. Not the compounding — the marketing.

Compounded only

8 providers supplying compounded medication and nothing else.

Both compounded and FDA-approved

9 providers selling both, usually at very different prices. A quoted headline price almost always refers to the compounded option — worth checking which one you are buying.

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