Found review
The rare program that will write you either a compounded vial or an FDA-approved pen and bill the visit through your insurance, holding one price at every dose. The catch is the calendar: the cheap headline needs a year paid upfront, and every refill needs a video call.
Every medical claim in this piece is footnoted to the record it came from — the trial or the FDA label — so you can read the source rather than take the masthead's word for it. No one on this desk is your clinician.
Found at a glance
- Semaglutide
- $299/mo
- Tirzepatide
- $299/mo
- Coverage
- Not disclosed — no published state list
- Brand-name
- Yes
How we scored Found
Each score comes out of Found's published pricing, disclosures and oversight, and the six combine into the 76/100 Editors' Rating on the same weighted six-factor framework we apply to every provider — never nudged by whether a provider pays us.
Cost is unpredictable, premium, or hides behind a plan commitment.
Reasonable oversight, though some program details aren't fully public.
The headline rate obscures a plan requirement or a hidden step-up.
Little here is shaped around a mother's week or her life stage.
Follow-up, titration help, and messaging are genuinely part of the package.
Leaving costs you — notice windows, minimum terms or fees you don't get back.
How we verified this review
- Last verified
- July 2026
- Confidence
- high
- Primary source
- www.joinfound.com/plans-and-pricing
$299 cash, month to month, priced by plan rather than by molecule — so semaglutide and tirzepatide cost the same here. The $99 and $169 on the pricing page both need twelve months paid in advance. Found publishes no list of the states it serves, and bills every four weeks.
What to expect when you sign up
We walked Found's public signup funnel (July 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.
- 1A state selector comes first, and it doubles as an insurance check — each state shows the carriers Found works with
- 2Plan pricing is public, with the headline $99 and $169 figures footnoted as twelve-month prepaid rates and the month-to-month rates given alongside
- 3A medical intake feeds a clinician review, with visits billed through insurance where a plan applies
- 4Refills require booking a video Care Call each time, through the mobile app
What we noticed
- Found is one of the few programs on this masthead offering both compounded and FDA-approved brand pens on the same account
- Every refill requires a video appointment — 'your next appointment with a Found-affiliated provider must be a video Care Call' — at no extra charge but on the app
- Clinical visits route through insurance, with a stated copay around $30, naming Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Aetna, Cigna and Anthem
- Labs are explicitly NOT included and are billed through a separate vendor when clinically indicated
- Its affiliated medical groups are named in the terms, but its compounding pharmacy never is
Pricing
Prices re-verified
| Medication | Monthly | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Compounded semaglutide | $299 | Cash pay, month to monthThe standing no-commitment rate. Found prices by PLAN rather than by molecule, and the price stays the same at every dose. |
| Compounded tirzepatide | $299 | Cash pay, month to monthIdentical to the semaglutide rate — the plan, not the molecule, sets the price. |
| Compounded semaglutide | $169 | Cash pay, 12 months paid upfrontThe advertised $169 headline. It requires prepaying a full year. |
| Compounded semaglutide | $99 | With insurance, 12 months upfrontThe $99 headline — a full year prepaid AND an accepted insurance plan. Monthly with insurance starts at $199. |
| Brand semaglutide | $650 | WegovyListed as 'from $650/mo+', billed separately from the plan. |
| Brand semaglutide | $1100 | OzempicListed at $1100/mo. Zepbound is listed from $650/mo+ and Mounjaro near $1100/mo. |
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GLP-1 telehealth is usually HSA- and FSA-eligible, so check your own plan. Everything above comes from Found's public disclosures at last review and change often; confirm the current number on Found's own site.
What we like
- Both compounded vials and FDA-approved brand pens on one account, so an on-label option stays open for an OB conversation
- Price stays the same at every dose — the budget doesn't move under you at each titration step
- Clinical visits route through major insurers at around a $30 copay, with a flat $50/mo Medicare Part D tier — close to unique on this roster
- A video Care Call before every refill means a clinician actually reviews you each cycle rather than auto-renewing a script
- Cancellation is self-serve from the account page and takes effect within 24 hours
- Thorough pregnancy, breastfeeding and oral-contraceptive guidance on its medication pages, plus a real women's-health and PCOS content library
The caveats
- The $99 and $169 headlines both require twelve months paid up front; month to month it is $299 cash pay, or about $199 with insurance
- A video appointment is mandatory for every refill, through the mobile app — a standing commitment, not an async refill
- Labs are explicitly excluded from every plan and billed separately, and brand-name pens are billed on top of the membership
- Refunds are available only within three days of purchase or before the first consultation; after that, membership fees are non-refundable
- No clear statement of where it operates — Found publishes no state list at all
- Names its affiliated medical groups but never its compounding pharmacy, and its editorial press credentials all date to 2024 or earlier
Found for mothers: our verdict
The rare program that will write you either a compounded vial or an FDA-approved pen and bill the visit through your insurance, holding one price at every dose. The catch is the calendar: the cheap headline needs a year paid upfront, and every refill needs a video call. It runs about $299/month, flat across every dose — a premium to the category, so the extras have to earn it.
We weigh Found the way mothers actually have to: not just the real monthly cost, but the real monthly cost once the dose climbs and whether a real clinician stands behind it — the things a generic roundup never gets to.
What Found actually costs
- Compounded semaglutide — Cash pay, month to month: $299/mo
- Compounded tirzepatide — Cash pay, month to month: $299/mo
- Compounded semaglutide — Cash pay, 12 months paid upfront: $169/mo
- Compounded semaglutide — With insurance, 12 months upfront: $99/mo
- Brand-name semaglutide — Wegovy: $650/mo
- Brand-name semaglutide — Ozempic: $1100/mo
For context, the typical ongoing price across our roster is around $179/month, so Found sits at the premium end.
The medications Found prescribes
Found prescribes semaglutide and tirzepatide — the pair with the strongest evidence behind them, and having both under one account matters when insulin resistance, familiar from PCOS and gestational diabetes, makes tirzepatide the better fit. It can also route you to FDA-approved brand pens rather than only compounded vials, and those carry the manufacturer's own pregnancy and lactation labeling, which is a cleaner document to take to an OB.
Where Found fits — and where it doesn't — for mothers
Worth it if…
- you want a real clinician reading your history around the real monthly cost once the dose climbs, not an auto-approving quiz.
- you may need to move between semaglutide and tirzepatide as your body and hormones change.
Give it a miss if…
- you want frictionless cancellation — the fine print here is where the complaints cluster.
- you'd rather a prescriber talk through timing around the real monthly cost once the dose climbs — that's what our #1 pick, CoreAge Rx, is built for.
Trust, safety, and oversight
Our confidence in Found's public facts is high — pricing, pharmacies, and clinical network were verifiable at last review. 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 Editors' Rating 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
Found is a reasonable option — weigh it on the real monthly cost once the dose climbs and whether a real clinician stands behind it 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: Mothers who want an on-label brand option and insurance-billed clinician visits on the same account as a compounded lane, and who can keep a recurring video appointment to get each refill.
Alternatives to Found
Providers we have a referral relationship with, ordered by their Editors' Rating — highest first. A fee never moves a rating, but it does decide who appears here, so this is not the whole roster: the full ranking lists every provider we cover.
- Visit CoreAge RxCoreAge RxOur #1 pick
The one program on this masthead whose number still makes sense at the top of the dose. A flat, all-in monthly price on both molecules, no teaser rate to expire, and a cancel button you can actually find — the closest thing to a family-budget guarantee we've reviewed.
- Visit Gala Health
A flat $179 for either molecule and a genuinely gentle microdosing tier — a reasonable, all-doses-included option, if you can live with a yearly plan and a pharmacy the marketing never names.
- Visit Sesame
A high-trust telehealth marketplace that took a clear side: FDA-approved brand GLP-1 only, no compounded shortcut. You pay a brand cash price and book a real video visit — but you get on-label pens and one of the cleaner reputations on this masthead.
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Found, answered
- What does Found actually cost per month?
- The headline is $99 with insurance or $169 cash pay, and the asterisk under it does the real work: both figures require paying twelve months up front. Month to month it is $299 cash pay, or about $199 with insurance. Credit where it is due — Found prints the monthly numbers next to the prepaid ones, which most of this market does not. But the number you will actually pay without committing a year is $299, and brand-name pens are billed on top of that, so the lane you choose changes the budget by an order of magnitude. Note that Found prices by plan rather than by molecule, so semaglutide and tirzepatide cost the same.
- Does Found take insurance?
- For clinical visits, yes, and that is genuinely unusual here. Found names Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Aetna, Cigna and Anthem and puts the typical copay around $30, with a separate Medicare Part D tier at a flat $50/mo. Two caveats worth holding. Insurance covers the visits, not automatically the medication. And the carrier list is state by state, so which plans Found is in-network with where you live is a question only its own eligibility check can answer — as is where it practices at all, since it publishes no state list. Run the check before you plan around it.
- Can Found prescribe brand-name Wegovy or Zepbound?
- Yes — and for a mother who wants an on-label product, that is the strongest thing about Found. Brand pens carry the manufacturer's own pregnancy and lactation labeling, which is a cleaner document to hand an OB than a compounded formulation's paperwork. The tradeoff is money: Wegovy and Zepbound are listed from $650/mo+ and Ozempic and Mounjaro near $1,100, billed separately from the plan, against $299 on the compounded side. Both routes sit on one account, so the choice stays open as your circumstances change.
- Do I have to get on video with Found?
- Yes, and it is the detail most likely to decide whether this fits your week. Found is asynchronous for much of the program, but its own page states that to get a refill your next appointment must be a video Care Call, and that you must schedule one every time a refill is due. There is no extra charge, and it does mean a clinician actually lays eyes on you before each cycle — real oversight, not a rubber stamp. It also means a scheduled video call on a repeating clock, through the mobile app, which is a different proposition at 7pm with a toddler than it is at a desk.
Pricing, states and verification reflect Found's public disclosures at last review; the Editors' Rating 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.