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Ascend Medical vs Care Clinics
Quick answer
Ascend Medical costs $130 a real month and Care Clinics costs $325 — a difference of $195 a month, or $2,335 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 Care Clinics?
Ascend Medical is the cheaper way to start, at $130 a month against $325 for Care Clinics; Ascend Medical does not publish what its top dose costs, so ask before you commit past the first month. Only Care Clinics reaches Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California and 26 more states, going by where each says it ships. Neither has an FDA warning letter on record.
What each one bills
| Ascend Medical | Care Clinics | |
|---|---|---|
| True monthly cost | $130 | $325 |
| Advertised as | $240 | — |
| Charged | every 8 weeks | every 4 weeks |
| Each charge | $240 | $299 |
| Price basis | a starting-dose price that climbs | a starting-dose price that climbs |
| Mandatory recurring fee | none found | none found |
| States it names | 2 states | 32 states |
| FDA warning letter | none on record | none on record |
Where they actually differ
- They bill on different clocks. Ascend Medical charges every 8 weeks and Care Clinics charges every 4 weeks. That alone changes what a “month” costs, which is the whole reason this index recomputes every price.
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 Care Clinics. The method is set out in how we verify.
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