How Our Rankings and Research Work
Featured placement and displayed scores can reflect affiliate earnings and conversion performance. These are commercial recommendation scores. They are not clinical safety ratings, results of a clinical trial, or averages of patient reviews.
How featured scores are assigned
We earn commissions when readers sign up through some provider links. Our featured order uses commercial performance, including earnings per referred visitor and completed signups. The displayed scores for featured providers follow that order, beginning at 9.4 and decreasing by 0.1 for subsequent positions. Other displayed scores are capped below the featured range. A higher number should therefore not be interpreted as proof of better medical outcomes.
Price-sorted comparisons answer a different question: which advertised offer is cheaper under its stated terms. Check whether the price requires prepayment, a longer commitment, a particular dose, or separate membership charges. See our affiliate disclosure and cost worksheet.
What our provider research covers
Our reviews discuss five practical areas. These are research topics, not a published weighted calculation underlying the current commercial scores.
- Safety and sourcing: the type of medicine, disclosed pharmacy and clinician details, and relevant regulatory information. A licensed facility does not make every compounded product FDA-approved.
- Transparency: whether the provider explains the treatment, quoted price, billing term and cancellation policy.
- Cost: medication, membership and other required charges, plus the difference between a monthly payment and a prepaid monthly equivalent.
- Support: the clinical contact and follow-up services described by the provider, with limitations identified where known.
- Access: state availability, prescription requirements and advertised delivery processes. An advertisement is not a guarantee of eligibility or arrival time.
Sources and uncertainty
Provider websites establish what a company advertises. They do not independently verify the quality of its care. We link public sources and distinguish advertised claims from details we can verify. If a checkout amount, dispensing pharmacy or billing term cannot be confirmed, we should say so rather than assume it.
Third-party ratings such as Trustpilot are identified separately with their source and review count where available. They can cover the whole company and are not a clinical effectiveness measure. Readers' experiences help identify questions to investigate, but do not establish how every patient will respond.
What medical review means
A medical-review credit identifies a completed review of the relevant article. It does not endorse a commercial score or guarantee an individual provider's treatment. New and materially changed articles should not inherit a review signoff automatically. See our team and editorial policy.
Correction: September 6, 2026
Earlier versions described a five-pillar weighted scoring system and said commissions did not influence ratings. That description did not match the featured-score system. We have corrected the explanation and retained the distinction between commercial placement, source-based reporting and completed medical review.
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