Eclipse Medical Wellness review

What it is

Eclipse Medical Wellness is a telehealth practice based in Denver that offers two services to Colorado residents: medical weight loss and virtual urgent care for common non-emergency illnesses, which is $60 a visit. Its clinician is Jeriah-Travis Mendaro, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with a background in medical-surgical care, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, wound care and nursing leadership. Visits happen by video or phone, and appointments are booked through Healthie, a practice-management platform with a patient portal. The practice says plainly that prescribing isn't guaranteed and depends on your medical history, labs and clinical judgment, and that its weight-loss program isn't for people who are pregnant or nursing. Contact is by phone, email or a web form. It doesn't serve anyone outside Colorado.

How it works

You can start with a free 15-minute discovery call to talk through your goals and whether the program fits; it doesn't include a diagnosis or prescription. The real start is a 25- to 30-minute comprehensive video visit covering your health history, with baseline labs and a personalized plan. From there, care depends on the plan you choose. On Monthly Visit Care you have a 15- to 20-minute video or phone follow-up each month, with labs repeated every three months while enrolled. Once you're stable, Stable Patient Text Care replaces visits with a monthly secure questionnaire and text check-ins through the portal, and you move back to monthly visits if anything changes. Every plan includes medication management, dose adjustments, side-effect monitoring, one prior-authorization attempt with your insurer, and nutrition support through a service called LivingPlateRx. Appointments missed or changed with less than 24 hours' notice may carry a $20 fee.

Pricing transparency

The care plans are a three-month starter program for $500, covering the initial visit, baseline labs, three months of follow-up and one prior-authorization attempt; Monthly Visit Care at $249 for the first visit and then $149 a month; and Stable Patient Text Care at $249 for the first visit and then $99 a month, for established stable patients. Medication is prescribed to a pharmacy and paid separately. For cash buyers, the practice's cost guide points to Promise Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy selling semaglutide for $249 a month and tirzepatide for $349, the same at every dose, with cold shipping included. Brand-name options are bought through insurance or the manufacturers; for example, Foundayo is listed from $149 a month self-pay and Zepbound from about $299. So expect roughly $400 a month for care plus compounded semaglutide after the first visit. No cancellation or refund terms for the care plans are published, and the site doesn't mention billing insurance for visits.

Branded vs compounded

Eclipse prescribes from a wide list. FDA-approved weight-loss options include Zepbound, Wegovy, Saxenda, Contrave, orlistat and Foundayo, the daily orforglipron pill. It may also consider metformin, topiramate or Rybelsus off-label for selected patients, and compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide through a compounding pharmacy when that's the better fit. Its own guide notes that compounded drugs are made for an individual patient and are not the same as FDA-approved brand-name drugs; they aren't reviewed by the FDA for safety, effectiveness or quality. The weight-loss figures it lists, such as up to 22.5% for tirzepatide and 15% for Wegovy, come from the branded drugs' trials. Because Eclipse doesn't sell medication itself, what you pay for the drug depends on your pharmacy and coverage. The site doesn't display a LegitScript seal, and a search of the FDA warning-letter database under Eclipse returned no letters.

Pros and watch-outs

The evidence behind what Eclipse Medical Wellness prescribes

We grade the molecules, not the marketing. Here is what the human data actually shows for each thing on their menu.

• Zepbound vs Wegovy: what the trials actually show

  Zepbound (tirzepatide) leads on weight loss in the one head-to-head trial; Wegovy (semaglutide) has the cardiovascular-outcomes approval. An honest comparison.

• Orforglipron: the oral non-peptide GLP-1, and what the trials actually show

  A once-daily small-molecule GLP-1 pill with no food restrictions — from Phase 2 proof of concept to the Phase 3 read-outs. The evidence, graded.

• GLP-1 cost and insurance coverage: what drives the price, and what's actually covered

  List price, net price, and your price are three different numbers. Indication drives coverage, savings cards have fine print, and cost is itself a clinical variable.

How Eclipse Medical Wellness compares

A few alternatives worth a look, depending on what you’re optimizing for.

• Found

  Compounded GLP-1 with the drug included, and insurance for the visits

  See Found →
• SkinnyRx

  Straightforward compounded GLP-1 access with cancel-anytime flexibility

  See SkinnyRx →
• knownwell

  People with commercial insurance or Medicare who want a specialist-led weight program with live visits and help getting a brand-name GLP-1 covered

  See knownwell →

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