Enara Health Review: Price, Pros & Cons

Enara Health is a San Mateo, California, company that runs a medically led weight program through a network of partner clinics. It bills your health insurance. Enara says it's in-network with most plans, and the program fee starts at $99 a month, depending on what your plan covers. That fee is for the program itself: visits with your care team, the app and the classes. Enara doesn't publish a cash price for any GLP-1, and its medication list has no compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide.

The first step is to register and check whether your insurance covers the program. If your plan isn't accepted, there's no published self-pay route, so confirm coverage before you plan around it.

Enara's providers prescribe brand-name, FDA-approved drugs. The list includes Zepbound and Wegovy injections, Saxenda, and non-GLP-1 options such as Contrave, Qsymia, phentermine and orlistat. Medication isn't automatic. A provider decides if and when a drug fits your plan, and some members follow the program without one.

What you pay for the drug depends on your pharmacy benefit. Enara runs a prior authorization service to get brand-name medications approved by your insurer, and it says that service gets coverage for more than 65% of its members. If your plan won't cover a brand-name drug, Enara's providers work out an alternative generic medication plan with you. Ask your provider what the drug will cost under your plan before you fill it.

Each member gets a team: a medical provider, a nutrition specialist, an exercise specialist and a behavioral health specialist. Enara publishes its provider directory by name, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered dietitians.

The program runs in phases. The first three months start with a full medical assessment, including metabolic and genetic testing, plus monthly body composition tests and meal tracking in the Enara app. After that come regular one-on-one video check-ins in the app, chat with your team, group classes on nutrition, exercise and psychology, and behavioral health sessions. Members get a smart scale that syncs with the app.

Enara works through partner clinics in a small number of states, not nationwide. Its clinic finder lists locations in California, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan and Minnesota, mostly cardiology, endocrinology and family practices. Enara says you meet your providers both online and face to face, so check that one of these clinics is near you.

• Check your insurance first. The $99 starting fee depends on your plan.
• Ask what your share of a brand-name GLP-1 will cost after prior authorization.
• Enara doesn't publish cancellation or refund terms, so ask how to leave the program and whether any fee is owed.
• Ask whether your insurer needs a referral before the first visit.