Skip to the guide Regenerative Providers A care-search workbook Getting started Questions to take A question sheet for your search Take questions. Leave with clear answers. Take these prompts to a visit in person or to telehealth care, which connects you by video, phone, or an online exchange. Regenerative means regrowth or repair. This sheet helps you check peptide treatment offers. Keep the answers together in a notebook. Person. Product. Plan. Price. Keep a place for the answer. The person Get a name. Check the licence. Ask for the full name, job title, and licence number of the person who will write your prescription. Which state board issued your licence? Where can I check your current licence? If the visit is online, are you allowed to treat me where I am? Keep in your notes Name · Job title · State board · Licence record What the record can tell you A state medical board is the agency that licenses doctors. Its public records show whether a licence is current and any discipline, such as penalties. A record with no public discipline shows no penalty or other action by the board. It cannot tell you the quality of care. Ask which state board licenses this person, then check the record on that board’s website. Find your state medical board Source A The product Name the medicine and who makes it. With compounding, a licensed pharmacist or doctor prepares medicine for a patient rather than providing a ready-made drug. What is the exact drug name, and is it a tablet, injection, or something else? Has the U.S. drug agency approved this product, or is it made for me by a pharmacy? Which pharmacy prepares the medicine, and which one sends it to me? If it is made for me, what need does that meet? Find the pharmacy licence search Source B Keep these claims separate The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) links to state pharmacy licence searches. A pharmacy’s licence record confirms it is licensed; it does not establish that each medicine the pharmacy supplies is right for the patient. As of September 2026, a business listed as “FDA registered” is recorded with the drug agency, but that listing does not approve its medicines. It does not prove the business is approved or that the drug can legally be sold. Under U.S. law as of September 2026, pharmacists and doctors cannot regularly make copies of medicines that are already available to buy. An exception permits a changed version intended for a single named patient. The prescriber must judge that this change makes an important difference to the patient’s medical care; a lower price by itself is not enough. A patient might need a medicine without a dye that causes an allergy, or a form they can swallow. As of September 2026, FDA warns that calling a compounded medicine approved, or the same as an approved product, is misleading. Source C The plan Know who answers after the visit. What do we hope will improve, and how will we know? Do studies show this will help my problem, and what is still uncertain? What unwanted effects might this exact product cause? Who can I reach with a question after I start? When would we review, change, or stop the plan? Keep in your notes What might improve · What is uncertain · Who to call Reasons to pause Look past the reassuring design. Without a valid prescription, supplying a prescription medicine violates U.S. federal law as of September 2026. FDA warns about online weight-loss services that have no licensed doctor to answer questions after your medicine arrives. The Federal Trade Commission warns that convincing seals and logos on health websites can be faked. Keep searching when the basic questions stay unanswered. Source D The price Ask for the full cost in writing. In a September 2026 check of online weight-care services, some charged a monthly care fee and a separate bill for medicines. Ask for a total that names visit fees, medicines, tests, delivery, supplies, and any ongoing fees. Questions for the service and your insurer What is included in the quoted price? What would I pay after an offer ends? What costs keep running if I stop treatment? Is this exact product covered for my condition? Must my insurer approve this treatment before I start? What happens to the fees if no prescription is written? Keep in your notes Pay now · Pay each month · Extra charges · How to cancel Check what you pay with insurance or with cash. For GLP-1 medicines, a group used in weight and blood-sugar care, paying through insurance and paying cash lead to different prices. Medicare may cover a weight-loss medicine for another condition it covers, such as type 2 diabetes, as of September 2026. Check that the drug is on your plan’s list of medicines it pays for. Ask whether the plan must approve treatment before you start. Ask the insurer to confirm the product and the reason for treatment. Source E A specific price, with specific terms If your search is about weight-loss care Medicare’s temporary GLP-1 Bridge helps some people pay for weight-loss medicines. As of September 2026, people who qualify pay $50 a month through December 2027. The Bridge covers only certain products and has rules about weight and health conditions. Payment by your Medicare drug plan for a GLP-1 medicine during 2026 rules out using the Bridge for 2026. You must be 18 or older, have Medicare drug coverage, and meet the programme’s weight and health rules. For people with type 2 diabetes, the route is their usual Medicare drug plan rather than the Bridge. Medicare Part D is the usual Medicare insurance for prescription medicines; the Bridge uses a separate system to approve prescriptions and pay pharmacies. The $50 monthly payment is left out when Medicare Part D adds up your medicine spending for its yearly payment limit. Have your prescriber and your plan check the exact product, your health, and your payment history for 2026. Source F Leave yourself time A missing answer is still an answer. You can ask for clarification, take your notes away, and compare another route to care. Return to getting started The page footnotes Read what supports these checks Medical licence records Medical boards: information for consumers Directory of state medical boards Checking a pharmacy FDA: state pharmacy licence search links Approval and compounding claims FDA: what approval does and does not mean FDA: compounding questions and answers FDA: claims about compounded medicines U.S. law: rules for medicines made for a patient Warning signs to act on U.S. law: prescription requirement FDA: telehealth warning signs Federal Trade Commission: checking health websites Price routes and coverage Medicare: coverage depends on the use Medicare: payment under the Bridge programme The temporary Medicare programme Medicare: GLP-1 Bridge overview Medicare: products and eligibility Medicare: payment rules for the Bridge This is a guide to checking care; it offers no treatment and sells no medicine. Read this page as plain text