The Virtual NP review

What it is

The Virtual NP is a telehealth practice based in McKinney, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It was founded by Sandra Jordan, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, a family nurse practitioner with more than two decades in healthcare who lists affiliations in obesity medicine. Medical weight loss is its main service, but the same practice offers concierge care, virtual urgent and primary care, prescription refills, and men's health and hair-loss treatment. It sees patients in Texas, Florida, New York, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Kansas, and its scheduling page only lets you book from those states. The practice is self-pay: its privacy notice says it doesn't bill Medicare, Medicaid or commercial insurance for its own services. Your pharmacy benefit is a different matter, and the practice will prescribe the drug your plan covers if you check with your insurer first. The site displays a LegitScript seal (ID 43447820). Office hours run seven days a week, with phone and email support listed.

How it works

You book a weight-loss appointment through the practice's online scheduler, choosing your state and visit type, and pay for the visit when you book. After payment you get a link to schedule a time and fill out a new-patient intake and consent forms. The help page asks you to send recent lab results as a PDF before the consultation, since labs are required to start weight-loss medication; if you don't have them, the nurse practitioner can order testing. The visit itself is described as a video appointment on the program page and as a phone call on the step-by-step guide, so expect either. Most patients can be seen within 24 hours. If medication is appropriate, the prescription goes to your local pharmacy or, for self-pay brand-name drugs, you get a secure payment link and the pharmacy ships to your home. Ongoing care includes messaging, follow-up appointments and a monthly progress report by email. To refill, you email your weight, side effects and progress, then pay for the refill visit on the website.

Pricing transparency

The Virtual NP charges for the clinician's time, not the drug. Its two weight-loss options are a pay-as-you-go plan at $99 per visit and a month-to-month membership at $75 a month, and both pages state plainly that medication cost isn't included. Its Wegovy and tirzepatide pages describe the $75 as covering a monthly appointment and a 30-day prescription. The homepage advertises a $75 weight-loss visit while its FAQ says visits start at $99, so confirm which plan you're booking. The medication is billed by whoever fills it. With insurance, you pay your plan's copay at the pharmacy. Without it, the practice points to the manufacturers' self-pay programs, NovoCare for Wegovy and LillyDirect for Zepbound, whose prices depend on the dose. Add those together and the monthly total sits well above most compounded programs, but you're buying an FDA-approved drug and a named clinician. HSA and FSA cards are accepted. Lab tests are a separate cost if you need them. The site doesn't spell out how to cancel the membership or whether any part of a visit fee is refundable, so get that in writing.

Branded vs compounded

The program pages list Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide), the two brand-name GLP-1s approved for weight management, and say the practice also prescribes other GLP-1s, including Ozempic, Mounjaro, Rybelsus, Victoza and Trulicity, on or off label when clinically appropriate. It also offers non-GLP-1 options such as Contrave and bupropion. Compounded GLP-1s aren't offered: the program pages cite an FDA ruling and list only the brand-name route, and the help page's note about a compounding pharmacy partner says the same. That's a cleaner regulatory picture than many cash-pay services, since every drug it prescribes is FDA-approved and dispensed by a licensed pharmacy you can identify. A search of the FDA warning-letter database under the practice's name, its domain, its founder and the compounding pharmacy named on its help page returned no letters.

Pros and watch-outs

The evidence behind what The Virtual NP prescribes

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

• How to get Wegovy in 2026: the four legitimate routes

  Wegovy is the semaglutide approved for weight management, so you don't need diabetes; you need a BMI of 30+ (or 27+ with a comorbidity) and a route. Here are the four: your doctor plus insurance, NovoCare self-pay, telehealth, and the compounding question.

• How to get Zepbound: the three routes to a prescription

  Zepbound is prescription-only. Here's who qualifies, and the three legitimate routes (your clinician, telehealth, or LillyDirect), plus why there's no legal no-prescription shortcut.

• 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 The Virtual NP compares

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

• Gala Health

  A guided, program-style GLP-1 weight-care experience

  See Gala Health →
• Direct Meds

  Straightforward compounded GLP-1 without an insurance requirement

  See Direct Meds →
• LillyDirect

  People who already have, or can get, a Zepbound or Foundayo prescription and want the manufacturer's self-pay price on authentic brand-name medicine

  See LillyDirect →

More GLP-1 telehealth reviews: Nolu · Glam Health · FORM · CeliaRx · EdgeRx · the edit.