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Care Clinics vs PreventiveMD

Quick answer

PreventiveMD costs $139 a real month and Care Clinics costs $325 — a difference of $186 a month, or $2,232 a year. Both figures are computed from what each seller actually charges and how often, not from the price on its landing page.

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Care Clinics or PreventiveMD?

PreventiveMD is the cheaper way to start, at $139 a month against $325 for Care Clinics; Care Clinics does not publish what its top dose costs, so ask before you commit past the first month. Only Care Clinics reaches Arkansas, District of Columbia, Idaho, Mississippi and four more states, while only PreventiveMD reaches Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri and eight more states, going by where each says it ships. Neither has an FDA warning letter on record.

What each one bills

 Care ClinicsPreventiveMD
True monthly cost$325$139
Advertised as—$97
Chargedevery 4 weeksevery calendar month
Each charge$299$139
Price basisa starting-dose price that climbsthe same at every dose
Mandatory recurring feenone foundnone found
States it names32 states36 states
FDA warning letternone on recordnone on record

Where they actually differ

  • They bill on different clocks. Care Clinics charges every 4 weeks and PreventiveMD 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. Care Clinics’s price is a starting-dose price that climbs; PreventiveMD’s is the same at every dose. See what titration does to an advertised figure.
  • What they advertise is not what they bill. PreventiveMD advertises $97 and bills $139.

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: Care Clinics and PreventiveMD. The method is set out in how we verify.

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