Compounded semaglutide
Blue Sky MD review
At $40 a week, compounded semaglutide at Blue Sky MD comes to roughly $174 a month for the drug alone. You get it through a physician-led clinic with offices across North Carolina. Before any prescription, you join the practice's weight loss program, which has its own cost that the site never states.
Is it right for you?
Worth a look if
- You want a gentle, low-dose start, which Blue Sky pitches semaglutide for.
- You have primary-care insurance that could cover the visits and lab work.
- You'd show up for a coaching session every week and use an app between them.
Skip it if
- You'd rather order online and never visit an office.
- You need a total price before you book anything.
- Your home is in another state.
What's included
Blue Sky lists semaglutide at $40 a week as its in-office self-pay price, and calls it the lower-cost choice next to tirzepatide. Its own semaglutide page says the drug can be microdosed to reduce side effects. The clinic's stated aim is the lowest dose that works.
The price comes attached to a program. Each week you meet a wellness coach in person, you see a medical provider for checkups, and the Blue Sky MD app handles food logs, recipes, activity tracking and messages to your coach. Program director Kristen Hunter is a registered dietitian.
Because Blue Sky is a primary care practice, it can bill insurance for much of this. It also offers out-of-pocket plans that include semaglutide. The semaglutide page states plainly that compounded drugs are not FDA-approved.
From sign-up to refills
- Take the free health assessment online, or ask for a callback and a care coordinator will reach you during office hours.
- Meet a provider at an office or by video. Blue Sky says in-person visits matter but offers virtual ones when life gets busy.
- If the provider approves semaglutide, the prescription is ordered, and Blue Sky says it reaches your address within 3 to 5 business days.
- Your weekly coaching starts alongside the medication, and labs are repeated as you go.
What's good, what isn't
What's good
- Semaglutide is the cheaper of Blue Sky's two compounded options at $40 a week.
- The practice bills most major primary-care plans, and its FAQ names Medicaid and Medicare.
- A registered dietitian, Kristen Hunter, runs the Blue Sky MD weight loss program.
What isn't
- Blue Sky won't prescribe semaglutide unless you enroll in its program, and it posts no program price.
- Care is built around seven offices in North Carolina, so patients elsewhere can't join.
- Every office closes at 1 p.m. on Fridays, and none lists weekend hours.
Read these terms first
- Program cost in writing
- The site says program pricing varies with your goals. Get the self-pay figure before your first visit, then add roughly $174 a month for semaglutide.
- What the weekly price covers
- Semaglutide is listed at $40 a week in-office. Confirm whether that holds if your prescription ships to your home instead.
- Coverage check
- Ask the office to verify your benefits before you commit. Visits and labs may go through insurance even when the medication is self-pay.
Price
Blue Sky MD costs $174 a month for compounded semaglutide. It advertises $160. The card is charged $40 every week. That is the starting dose, and it rises as your dose does.
How we got $174
The arithmeticOne month = 30.4375 days
Blue Sky MD advertises
Read on Blue Sky MD's own site
$160.00
The card is charged $40.00, not $160.00
The advertised figure is not the amount that leaves the account.
− $120.00
And it is charged every week, not every month
52.18 charges a year, not twelve.
+ $133.93
And a charge this seller will not price
mandatory enrollment in the Blue Sky MD medical weight loss program — the price is published nowhere on the site. It is not in the total below, so a real month costs more than the figure printed.
not priced
A real month — at least$173.93
This total is a floor, not a price. One charge this seller requires has no published amount, so a real month costs more than the total shown.
The price above is the starting dose, and it rises as your dose does. This seller does not publish how far, so treat it as an entry price rather than what you will be paying in six months.
Where it sits, and what costs less
$54median $199$325+
121 cheaper · 32%256 dearer · 68%
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- Fidelity Medical Clinicstarting dose$54
- Collective$76
- NextMeds$79
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- RxPepsDirectstarting dose$80
- Blue Sky MD$174
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Where it says it operates
Listed in 1 state.
State pages this seller appears on: North Carolina
What else this seller sells
The same seller appears in our data for one other medication.
- tirzepatide — $261 a month
Each figure is a real month for that medication, and none of it is part of the compounded semaglutide price above. How the two molecules compare at every seller that sells both: compounded semaglutide vs compounded tirzepatide.
Common questions about Blue Sky MD
- How much does Blue Sky MD charge for semaglutide?
- $40 a week, or about $174 a month, for compounded semaglutide. The required weight loss program is billed on top, and its self-pay price is given only by text or in person. Tirzepatide at the same clinic runs about $261 a month.
- Is Blue Sky MD a real clinic?
- Yes. Dr. David LaMond founded Blue Sky MD in 2008, and it runs seven North Carolina offices from Asheville to Mooresville. It carries LegitScript certification. The semaglutide it prescribes is compounded, so it is not Wegovy or Ozempic.
- Is Blue Sky MD covered by insurance?
- Often, in part. The clinic is in-network with most major primary-care plans and says it accepts Medicaid, Medicare and Blue Cross for the program. You can also pay yourself, with HSA or FSA funds.
- Does Blue Sky MD do telehealth?
- Partly. You can pick in-person or a hybrid of office and telehealth visits. The weekly coaching sessions are described as in-person, so plan on getting to an office regularly.