What the CoreAge Rx Intake Actually Asks (I Clicked Through It)

Why I clicked through instead of guessing

Every mom I know who is curious about GLP-1 telehealth has the same first worry: what am I going to be asked, and how far in do I have to go before I see a real price? So I sat down after the kids were in bed and walked the CoreAge Rx intake the same way any of us would — one screen at a time, screenshotting as I went.

One thing up front so we're square: I don't create accounts, enter medical info, or check out — this is the observable funnel, not medical advice. I'm describing the public screens you'd see before any of that, so you know what you're walking into.

Screen by screen: what it actually asks

The opening screens are the "is this even for me" questions — the kind you can answer honestly in under a minute. It asks your goal, a rough sense of your height and weight, and whether you've tried GLP-1 medication before. Nothing on those first cards felt like a trick to get your email; the "next" button worked without one for the early steps.

From there it moves into a standard health-history section: existing conditions, current medications, allergies, and the safety-screen questions you'd expect a legitimate program to ask (personal or family history of certain thyroid cancers, pancreatitis, that category). This is the part I actually want to see be thorough — a program that skips it is a program cutting corners. The questions read like an intake a clinician would review, not a checkout survey.

Does price show before you hand over medical info?

This is the one that matters most to a household budget, so I paid attention. On the funnel as I observed it, CoreAge Rx surfaces its pricing in plain language early — before you're asked to enter the sensitive medical detail — rather than burying the number behind a full medical questionnaire and an account. That ordering is the opposite of the "answer 40 questions, give us your card, then find out" pattern I've hit on other sites, and it's a big reason it sits at the top of our list.

I'm not going to quote you a dollar figure here because promotional numbers move; the point is where in the flow the number appears. Seeing it up front means you can decide before you've invested twenty minutes and your medical history. If you want the deeper money breakdown, I put it in what I paid for GLP-1 vs. what I expected. And if the thing you care about is finishing before nap time ends, see the fastest GLP-1 signups.

What it does NOT ask (and why that's a good sign)

Just as telling as the questions is what's absent. The public intake didn't push me to buy an unrelated supplement stack, didn't gate the "see if you qualify" step behind a paid membership, and didn't demand payment details just to view the medical questions. There was no fake countdown timer manufacturing urgency. Those omissions are quiet green flags — the flow is trying to screen you appropriately, not sprint you to a card form.

It also doesn't promise you a specific number on the scale, which I appreciate, because no honest intake can. What the medicines do in trials is real but averaged: once-weekly semaglutide produced roughly 15% mean body-weight reduction over 68 weeks in the STEP 1 trial¹, and programs typically start low and step the dose up over weeks to ease stomach side effects². An intake that implied you'd match a trial average would be lying; this one doesn't. (I checked these claims against FDA labels and published trial data.)

What I'd tell a friend before she starts

Have your current medication list and any diagnoses handy so the health-history screens go fast. Read the safety questions instead of clicking through — they exist for you. If you want to know what the first week can feel like once a program is underway, I wrote that up in week 1 on GLP-1 as a mom of toddlers. For comparison, Maves publishes its own GLP-1 pricing card before any intake at all — $89/mo for semaglutide — though its homepage banner separately advertises $99 for the first month, so read both before you decide which to trust.

Two others I checked the same way. FitFlow puts its price right on the homepage — $99, and it says it stays $99 at any dose. Nouri shows a $120 headline that turns out to mean six months paid up front; month to month it is $175. Nouri also warns that some states need a video visit, without saying which.

A few other intake shapes worth knowing about first

Not every funnel is a simple "answer questions, see a price" flow like CoreAge Rx's, and it's worth knowing the shape before you click start. QuickMD flips the model entirely: you pay a flat $99 up front for a one-time consultation, and only find out the medication price afterward, from your own pharmacy. JRNYS shows you a membership range ($89-$169/mo) before intake but doesn't disclose the actual drug price until a provider has reviewed your consult. 9amHealth is genuinely two-track — $149/mo self-pay, or free if your insurance covers it — so the real number depends on a benefits check you can't finish on the public pages alone. Optimized Health and The Virtual NP both show a real price before intake ($200/$250 and $75-$99, respectively), which is the reassuring end of this spectrum; LIV by WellNow does too, at a flat $279/mo, though it only prescribes compounded semaglutide, not tirzepatide. None of the six is doing anything dishonest — just know which kind of "price before intake" you're actually getting.