MD Exam review
Read the homepage and this is a flat-fee program: $225 a month, medication included, plus coaching. Read the FAQ and it is an insurance practice — it accepts most major plans, your cost depends on your coverage, and there are instructions for faxing your details in. Both descriptions are live and nothing connects them. The same page also lists two different Miami addresses and two different support email addresses.
- Independently scored
- Verified
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.
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
Each score comes out of MD Exam's published pricing, disclosures and oversight, and the six combine into the 41/100 Editors' Rating on the same weighted six-factor framework we apply to every provider — never nudged by whether a provider pays us.
The headline rate obscures a plan requirement or a hidden step-up.
Cost is unpredictable, premium, or hides behind a plan commitment.
Little here is shaped around a mother's week or her life stage.
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.
Leaving costs you — notice windows, minimum terms or fees you don't get back.
How we verified this review
- Last verified
- August 2026
- Confidence
- low
- Primary source
- mdexam.com
Verified 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 is the only pricing published. Two things complicate it. Its FAQ describes a different business — that it accepts most major insurance plans, that prescription cost depends on the plan, and how to fax insurance details in — and nothing says which model applies to a given patient. And the same page carries two Miami addresses with two different support email addresses. One claim was checked rather than taken on trust: the FAQ states that "the active ingredient, Semaglutide, has always been available", attributing any shortage to the brand-name prefilled pen. The FDA's 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 own and unevidenced; this review does not claim the opposite, only that nothing supports it. No state list and no compounding pharmacy are published. It screened clean against the live FDA warning-letter index.
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
- 2The intake responded HTTP 200 when checked on 2026-08-21
- 3Walked to the intake entry only. No personal information was submitted, so nothing past the entry screen is asserted here
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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GLP-1 telehealth is usually HSA- and FSA-eligible, so check your own plan. Everything above comes from MD Exam's public disclosures at last review and change often; confirm the current number on MD Exam's own site.
What we like
- $225 a month with medication included would sit at the affordable end of this page
- Nutrition and exercise coaching are inside the program price rather than sold on top
- It engages with insurance at all, which most of this cash-pay market will not
- The operating company is named and a toll-free number published
The caveats
- ⛔ A flat cash program and an insurance-billing practice are both described, with nothing reconciling them
- ⛔ Two different Miami addresses and two different support emails on the same page
- Its claim that the active ingredient "has always been available" is its own and is not what the FDA shortage record shows
- The $50 consultation fee sits outside the advertised monthly figure
- An unrendered answer prefix leaks into the copy — "A: Our program is priced…"
- No state list and no compounding pharmacy named
MD Exam for mothers: our verdict
Read the homepage and this is a flat-fee program: $225 a month, medication included, plus coaching. Read the FAQ and it is an insurance practice — it accepts most major plans, your cost depends on your coverage, and there are instructions for faxing your details in. Both descriptions are live and nothing connects them. The same page also lists two different Miami addresses and two different support email 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 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 MD Exam actually costs
- 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.
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
Worth it if…
- you want a straightforward semaglutide program and will confirm the details before you commit.
Give it a miss 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 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 here is limited — MD Exam publishes little about how its program actually runs, so you're buying on price and trust in its partners. 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
MD Exam 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: A mother who will call and establish which of the two business models she is actually buying into.
Alternatives to MD Exam
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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Head-to-head & alternatives
MD Exam, answered
- How much does MD Exam cost?
- When we last checked, the cheapest ongoing compounded price at MD Exam was around $225 a month: From $225/mo including medication, plus a $50 consultation for semaglutide and Not priced separately for tirzepatide. Prices here move quickly — confirm today's all-in number on their own site before signing up.
- Is MD Exam safe to use while breastfeeding?
- No GLP-1 has been shown to be safe in pregnancy or while nursing, whether compounded or brand-name, and the labeling advises against it. That applies to MD Exam as much as to anyone else. Time it for after weaning, and make the decision 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 takes 41/100 in our Editors' Rating, placing it #257. Six factors chosen for mothers feed that number, and CoreAge Rx is the one at the top of the list — see how they compare.
Pricing, states and verification reflect MD Exam'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.