Scoring methodology
How My Peptide Information scores telehealth providers: six weighted categories, published before any ranking is written, with evidence and confidence levels behind every score.
Category weights
| Category | Weight | What we assess |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical safety and oversight | 25% | Licensed review, eligibility screening, follow-up, labs, adverse-event process, emergency limits |
| Pharmacy and sourcing transparency | 20% | Named pharmacy, verifiable license, 503A/503B accuracy, disclosed concentration and formulation |
| Total pricing transparency | 20% | Starting, renewal and highest-dose price, all required fees, commitment, cancellation and refund terms |
| Clinician credentials and access | 15% | Named medical lead, verifiable NPI, prescriber access, documented state coverage |
| Patient support and continuity | 10% | Contact channels, response time, refill support, ongoing check-ins |
| Policies and consumer protections | 10% | Visible terms, understandable cancellation, refund rules, privacy, no deceptive urgency |
Evidence and confidence
Every score carries a source, a capture date, a reviewer and a confidence level. A provider does not earn full points for an unverifiable claim; we mark facts Verified, Reported, Not disclosed or Contradicted.
Independence and conflicts
Advertising or affiliate relationships never change a score, rank or inclusion. Where we have an ownership conflict (NexLife), the score is signed off by an unaffiliated reviewer and disclosed on the page. See conflicts of interest.
Price normalization
We normalize total cost across covered doses and required fees using one formula, computed for the initial month, ongoing month and 3-, 6- and 12-month totals. See price-verification methodology.
Version history
Methodology v1.0 — released July 12, 2026. Changes to weights or definitions trigger a version increment and re-scoring of all providers, logged in the methodology changelog.
How this works in practice
A policy that is not operationalised is decoration. Here is what ours actually changes about the pages you read.
Every price carries a status. Verified means we hold a dated capture of the provider's own page. Reported — pending verification means a provider or third party reports it and we have not captured it ourselves. Evaluation in progress means we are not asserting it. We do not upgrade a price to Verified because a comparison site published it — sites in this category contradict each other routinely, and a number repeated by three affiliate blogs is still one unverified number.
Every medical claim traces to a primary source. FDA labels and guidance for regulatory status; PubMed-indexed randomised trials for efficacy; ClinicalTrials.gov for trial design. Reddit and patient forums are never used as evidence of price, safety, efficacy or legitimacy — they may be described as anecdotal sentiment, labelled as such. Animal research is never presented as proof of a human clinical effect.
Every ranking shows its arithmetic. Where a provider we have a commercial relationship with ranks well, the calculation that produced that result is printed on the page. If the arithmetic is wrong, you can see that it is wrong, and tell us.
Commercial relationships and what they do not buy
The publisher and certain principals have financial relationships with some of the telehealth providers listed on this site, and we may earn a commission when readers use certain links. That is how this publication is funded, and we state it in the footer of every page rather than burying it.
What compensation does not do: it does not change a score, a rank, an inclusion decision, or a negative finding. Providers cannot pay for placement, cannot suppress an accurate criticism, and cannot review their own page before publication. Where a commercially-related provider loses a category, we say so — a comparison in which one provider wins everything is an advertisement, and the fastest way to tell the difference is to look for the losses.
Corrections
We publish prices in a market that changes them frequently, and we will get things wrong. When we do, we correct the page, date the correction, and say what changed — we do not quietly edit a number and pretend it was always right. Both readers and providers can submit corrections with evidence, through the same process and to the same standard.
Our own record so far includes removing a set of provider prices we had sourced from a third-party comparison site and could not substantiate, and correcting brand-pricing figures that had gone stale after a manufacturer price cut. Both corrections made the site less flattering to conclusions we had already published. That is the point.