We offer an online weight loss program that helps you reach your weight and health goals through nutrition, comprehensive care, and medication, if prescribed.
Overcome shortages and insurance barriers with compounded medications. These are reliable and lower-cost alternatives to hard-to-find and expensive weight loss medications.
Your provider may prescribe you one of the medications listed below, if appropriate.
Create a Hello Alpha account and get the Alpha Plus+ membership.
Tell us about you and your health goals so your provider can personalize your care.
Have your weight loss medication sent to your door, with free delivery, if prescribed.
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Our providers only prescribe medication based on clinical guidelines. Alpha Membership does not guarantee a prescription.
Weight loss medications may be part of a weight loss program and work best when combined with lifestyle changes. Weight loss medications may jump start your weight loss when used in conjunction with a nutrition treatment plan, behavioral modifications, and exercise.
Most weight loss occurs within the first 6 months of starting the weight loss medication. The time it takes for you to see results can vary significantly depending on your health, exercise, and nutrition.
This depends on the medication you are taking. If you do not lose at least 5% of your starting body weight after 12 weeks on the full dose of your medication, your provider will work with you to discuss modifying your diet or treatment. Once you have lost enough weight to improve your health and haven’t had serious side effects, your provider will advise if you should continue or stop taking the medication.
If you receive a prescription for a weight loss medication and want to use your insurance benefits to help cover the cost, your insurance company may require a prior authorization.
If you do not have type 2 diabetes, Hello Alpha is not able to assist in processing a prior authorization for diabetes medications used off-label to treat obesity, such as Trulicity, Ozempic, Rybelsus, Mounjaro, and Victoza.
If you submit a weight loss visit and your prior authorization request is denied by your insurance company, or if our team is not able to assist in processing a prior authorization because you do not meet the requirements for a weight loss medication, you are not eligible for a refund of your Alpha Plus+ plan fee.
Many people have turned to compounded medications in the face of supply shortages. Compounded medications are prepared by special pharmacies licensed to prepare medications at the request of healthcare providers.
Compounded medications are not generic medications.
Hello Alpha providers prescribe to a pharmacy that meets our high standards for providing high quality care. This pharmacy specializes in compounding semaglutide base and not semaglutide salts, which are not the same active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy. To ensure compliance with applicable law, we cannot send compounded prescriptions to other pharmacies.
Subject to availability and applicable law, Hello Alpha currently offers compounded semaglutide as multi-dose vials that require the use of a needle and syringe for weekly injections. Although many have used compounded semaglutide to safely perform self-injections, if you are not comfortable filling and using a needle and syringe to self-inject, ask your Hello Alpha provider for other alternatives.
The FDA allows compounding pharmacies to compound medications under certain circumstances, but it is important to note that compounded medications, including compounded semaglutide, are not FDA approved. The FDA does not verify the safety or effectiveness of compounded drugs.
Please note: During supply shortages, and as an alternative to FDA-approved branded products, where your provider determines GLP-1 medications are appropriate, and where available depending on your state, your provider may prescribe a compounded drug. Compounded drugs prescribed by Hello Alpha Providers are prepared by a licensed sterile compounding manufacturer and fulfilled by Alpha's partner pharmacy, in compliance with state law. Although compounded drugs are permitted to be prescribed under federal law, and although the active ingredients compare to brand name medications, compounded medications are not generic, nor are not FDA-approved and do not undergo the same safety, effectiveness, or manufacturing review as branded medications. Zepbound(TM) and Wegovy(TM) are brand name medications that are FDA-approved for weight loss. Ozempic(TM) is a brand name, FDA-approved for type 2 diabetes treatment, but may be prescribed off-label for weight loss at a healthcare provider’s discretion.
1,2 Although the active ingredient is comparable to the referenced brand name medications, compounded medications, including compounded semaglutide, is not a generic medication, nor is it FDA approved. The FDA does not verify the safety or effectiveness of compounded drugs.
