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Ascend Medical vs boostAGErx

Quick answer

Ascend Medical costs $130 a real month and boostAGErx costs $265 — a difference of $135 a month, or $1,615 a year. Both figures are computed from what each seller actually charges and how often, not from the price on its landing page.

Checked in . Both sellers are re-checked on the same schedule; a price either side changes after that date will not be reflected here until the next check.

Ascend Medical or boostAGErx?

Ascend Medical is the cheaper way to start, at $130 a month against $265 for boostAGErx; Ascend Medical does not publish what its top dose costs, so ask before you commit past the first month. Judged by the headline prices you would pick boostAGErx, advertised at $145 against Ascend Medical's $240, and that is the wrong way round once each bill is restated as a calendar month. Ascend Medical names 2 states; boostAGErx does not say where it ships. Neither has an FDA warning letter on record.

What each one bills

 Ascend MedicalboostAGErx
True monthly cost$130$265
Advertised as$240$145
Chargedevery 8 weeksevery calendar month
Each charge$240$265
Price basisa starting-dose price that climbsthe same at every dose
Mandatory recurring feenone foundnone found
States it names2 statesnot published
FDA warning letternone on recordnone on record

Where they actually differ

  • They bill on different clocks. Ascend Medical charges every 8 weeks and boostAGErx charges every calendar month. That alone changes what a “month” costs, which is the whole reason this index recomputes every price.
  • One price holds and the other climbs. Ascend Medical’s price is a starting-dose price that climbs; boostAGErx’s is the same at every dose. See what titration does to an advertised figure.
  • What they advertise is not what they bill. boostAGErx advertises $145 and bills $265.

How we know

Both figures were read on the seller’s own site and recomputed over a 30.4375-day calendar month from the charge and the billing period it covers. Neither is a seller’s own “/mo”. The full working for each — the charge, the period, the arithmetic and the date it was read — is on its own page: Ascend Medical and boostAGErx. The method is set out in how we verify.

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