{"name":"GLP-1 True Cost & Transparency Index","description":"A versioned, source-level comparison of publicly advertised U.S. GLP-1 prices, required fees, recurring all-in cost, commitments, and offer-page transparency.","snapshotId":"2026-08-26","updatedAt":"2026-08-26","cadence":"Monthly","license":"CC BY 4.0","methodology":["Capture only facts visible without login on provider- or manufacturer-owned U.S. pages; observe every source on the snapshot date.","Separate introductory medication price, recurring medication price, and required program fee. Calculate an all-in range only when the captured components support it.","Record dose effects, prepayment or commitment, shipping, labs, and cancellation or renewal terms. A blank value means not established by the cited page, never zero.","Score ten disclosure fields at 10 points each: product status, first-month price, recurring medication price, required fee, recurring total, dose effect, commitment, shipping, labs, and cancellation or renewal.","Flag a source conflict when current pages owned by the same organization publish materially different terms. The score measures public offer-page disclosure, not clinical quality, safety, or value.","Keep compounded prescriptions and FDA-approved finished products distinct. Prices are normalized to monthly equivalents only when the source discloses the billing term."],"columns":[{"key":"provider","label":"Provider","definition":"Entity publishing the price."},{"key":"offer","label":"Public offer","definition":"Therapy or program named on the captured page."},{"key":"product_status","label":"Product status","definition":"FDA-approved brand or compounded prescription."},{"key":"intro_usd","label":"Intro price","definition":"Published first-period medication or all-inclusive price in USD."},{"key":"recurring_med_usd","label":"Recurring medication","definition":"Published monthly medication price or range, excluding a separate required fee."},{"key":"required_fee_usd","label":"Required fee","definition":"Published monthly-equivalent required program or membership fee."},{"key":"recurring_total_usd","label":"Recurring all-in","definition":"Calculated or published recurring medication plus required fee; blank when a component is unknown."},{"key":"dose_and_commitment","label":"Dose / commitment","definition":"Dose-price behavior, prepayment, or minimum commitment visible in source."},{"key":"included","label":"Shipping / labs","definition":"Explicit public disclosure of shipping and laboratory treatment."},{"key":"consistency","label":"Source consistency","definition":"Whether current official pages reviewed agree on material price terms."},{"key":"transparency_score","label":"Transparency","definition":"Public Offer Transparency Score from 0 to 100; 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a headline monthly equivalent can therefore conceal the amount charged upfront.","url":"https://formblends.com/report/data/glp1-cash-price-index#finding-1"},{"id":"finding-2","text":"The captured recurring all-in price spans from $99 for Henry Meds' prepaid microdose oral semaglutide offer to $598 at the high end of Ro's Zepbound path after its required membership is included.","url":"https://formblends.com/report/data/glp1-cash-price-index#finding-2"},{"id":"finding-3","text":"Four provider groups have material price-language conflicts across their own current or still-indexed pages: FormBlends, Mochi, Noom, and Eden.","url":"https://formblends.com/report/data/glp1-cash-price-index#finding-3"},{"id":"finding-4","text":"FormBlends scores 20/100 on public offer-page transparency because its product finder establishes product status and an entry price but not recurring price, required fee, dose behavior, shipping, labs, or renewal terms.","url":"https://formblends.com/report/data/glp1-cash-price-index#finding-4"}],"caveats":["Prices are public-page snapshots, not patient quotes or endorsements.","Eligibility, state, pharmacy, dose, taxes, promotions, and checkout-only terms may change the patient-specific amount.","A null value means the complete field was not established by the captured source; it does not mean zero.","The transparency score evaluates disclosure on public offer pages, not clinical quality, safety, efficacy, customer experience, or provider competence.","FormBlends is included under the same rules as competitors and receives no scoring advantage."],"attribution":"FormBlends Research, GLP-1 True Cost & Transparency Index, snapshot 2026-08-26"}