Nelson Vergel
Founder, ExcelMale.com
Sabina Hemmi was taking a compounded obesity medicine, when the price jumped from $550 a month to $875 a month. "I was like, 'What the hell?' "
She started shopping around, but found it confusing. Most telehealth sites offering compounded obesity drugs didn't list prices and wouldn't reveal them to would-be customers until after they'd filled out online forms with personal and medical information.
So Hemmi, who founded a data company to help video gamers play better, started a website to help people sort through the mess. At first, it was just a listing of a few dozen companies and their prices. The website has since grown to include reviews and warnings about telehealth providers with ties to pharmacies cited for regulatory violations, for example.
Hemmi says new companies and websites ask every day to be added. Often, she says, the sites didn't exist two weeks earlier. She only adds new companies after vetting them.
As she's doing her due diligence, companies sometimes go from enthusiastically answering questions to being ghostly silent – especially when it comes to answering specifics about the identities of their health care providers. "That's when they drop off."
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She started shopping around, but found it confusing. Most telehealth sites offering compounded obesity drugs didn't list prices and wouldn't reveal them to would-be customers until after they'd filled out online forms with personal and medical information.
So Hemmi, who founded a data company to help video gamers play better, started a website to help people sort through the mess. At first, it was just a listing of a few dozen companies and their prices. The website has since grown to include reviews and warnings about telehealth providers with ties to pharmacies cited for regulatory violations, for example.
Hemmi says new companies and websites ask every day to be added. Often, she says, the sites didn't exist two weeks earlier. She only adds new companies after vetting them.
As she's doing her due diligence, companies sometimes go from enthusiastically answering questions to being ghostly silent – especially when it comes to answering specifics about the identities of their health care providers. "That's when they drop off."
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