PlushCare Review: Price, Pros & Cons

PlushCare is a virtual primary care practice, so you don't buy a GLP-1 plan from it. You pay for a membership and for visits, and the medication is billed separately.

• Membership: $19.99, with the first month free. It covers same-day appointments seven days a week, unlimited messages with your care team and discounts on lab tests.
• Visits with insurance: PlushCare is in network with many major insurers, and most in-network patients pay $30 or less per visit.
• Visits without insurance: the first visit is $129.

Lab work and medication aren't included in either price. Your doctor will often order labs before deciding on treatment, and you pay the lab or your plan for those.

PlushCare's doctors can prescribe Wegovy, Zepbound, Saxenda, Contrave and other weight drugs, and send the prescription to your pharmacy of choice. If you're insured, the care team handles prior authorization for you. It says putting the request together usually takes three to seven business days, and insurers typically take another seven to 14 days to decide. If you're denied, you can still buy the drug at the cash price, and PlushCare's in-app discount card takes 7% to 20% off some medications.

If you pay cash, PlushCare points you to the drugmakers' own pharmacies. Wegovy comes through Novo Nordisk's NovoCare pharmacy, which has charged a lower introductory price for the first two months at the two lowest doses. PlushCare's own Wegovy information still says that offer runs through March 2026, so check the current price before you count on it. Zepbound vials come through LillyDirect, at a self-pay price that rises with the dose up to 7.5 mg and then stays flat.

PlushCare says its doctors prescribe compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide only while the brand-name drug is on the FDA's shortage list. When they do, a partner sterile compounding pharmacy makes it, and you pay that pharmacy's cash price by card during your appointment. The compounded semaglutide price is lower at the starting dose than at higher ones. Insurance doesn't cover compounded drugs.

Compounded prescriptions are limited to residents of 40 states and Washington, D.C. Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina and South Dakota aren't on the list. Ask at your first visit whether a compounded option is open to you at all.

PlushCare refunds the cost of a visit if it can't treat or assess you, if a connection problem stops the consultation, if the doctor is more than 10 minutes late, or if a state licensing issue gets in the way. That refund covers the appointment, not the membership.

There's no refund once a doctor has done any level of assessment, including a visit that ends with lab orders or a referral but no prescription. Prescriptions can't be returned. The membership can be canceled at any time.