Defy Medical Review: Price, Pros & Cons

Defy Medical is a Tampa, Florida, concierge clinic best known for testosterone and hormone therapy. It treats most patients by telemedicine, and weight loss is one of its service lines. Its providers can prescribe semaglutide, tirzepatide and liraglutide, and it also lists semaglutide as under-the-tongue oral drops. The lead physician and medical director is Dr. Justin Saya.

Defy doesn't publish a price for any GLP-1, for the consultation or for the lab work a weight plan needs. You see costs as you go: lab orders are bought separately, and medication is ordered and paid for in the patient portal after a provider prescribes it. Ask for the full monthly figure for your drug and dose, plus the consult and lab charges, before you commit.

You fill in a Get Started form, and a patient advocate contacts you to explain the new-patient requirements, such as blood testing, a recent physical and your medical history. Defy treats bloodwork as the starting point for a weight plan, to look for conditions that make weight hard to lose. Labs are drawn at a LabCorp near you, and results usually take five to ten business days.

You then meet a provider by telemedicine, and Defy offers extended consults if you want more time. If a GLP-1 is appropriate, it can be part of a wider plan that may include other medications or supplements.

Defy doesn't make or ship medication itself. When you order in the patient portal, its team checks the order against your care plan and sends it to a pharmacy in its vendor network. That pharmacy makes and ships the medication and sends you tracking. Defy doesn't name the pharmacies, so ask which one will fill yours and whether the drug is compounded or brand-name.

Defy doesn't take any insurance and won't contact your insurer. Lab orders stay valid for three months and can be renewed once for free. A lab order can be refunded only before your sample is submitted. Within 90 days of purchase the refund goes to your card. From 91 to 180 days you get store credit instead, minus a $25 processing fee.