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Ascend Medical vs Care Clinics
Quick answer
Ascend Medical costs $130 a real month and Care Clinics costs $145 — a difference of $14 a month, or $170 a year. Both figures are computed from what each seller actually charges and how often, not from the price on its landing page.
What each one bills
| Ascend Medical | Care Clinics | |
|---|---|---|
| True monthly cost | $130 | $145 |
| Advertised as | $240 | $133 |
| Charged | every 8 weeks | every 12 weeks |
| Each charge | $240 | $399 |
| Price basis | a starting-dose price that climbs | not stated |
| 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 12 weeks. 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; Care Clinics’s is not stated. See what titration does to an advertised figure.
- What they advertise is not what they bill. Care Clinics advertises $133 and bills $145.
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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