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Ascend Medical vs Cora Health
Quick answer
Ascend Medical costs $130 a real month and Cora Health costs $225 — a difference of $95 a month, or $1,135 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 Cora Health?
Ascend Medical is the cheaper way to start, at $130 a month against $225 for Cora Health; 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 Cora Health, advertised at $135 against Ascend Medical's $240, and that is the wrong way round once each bill is restated as a calendar month. Only Cora Health reaches Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas and 44 more states, going by where each says it ships. Neither has an FDA warning letter on record.
What each one bills
| Ascend Medical | Cora Health | |
|---|---|---|
| True monthly cost | $130 | $225 |
| Advertised as | $240 | $135 |
| Charged | every 8 weeks | every calendar month |
| Each charge | $240 | $225 |
| Price basis | a starting-dose price that climbs | the same at every dose |
| Mandatory recurring fee | none found | none found |
| States it names | 2 states | 50 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 Cora Health 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; Cora Health’s is the same at every dose. See what titration does to an advertised figure.
- What they advertise is not what they bill. Cora Health advertises $135 and bills $225.
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 Cora Health. The method is set out in how we verify.
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