Price record dated September 26, 2026.
Separate the bill before comparing the total
This guide has no local IV-visit price. Ask the place offering care for a written bill with the visit, any membership, tests, medicine and delivery on separate lines.
Read a price as a set of terms
An opening price can have a short life
To see why later bills matter, compare the opening and later prices in this recorded offer for semaglutide (Ozempic pen). These prices are for that medicine, not an IV visit in St. Peters. Use the same opening-versus-later comparison when asking for your own bill.
Strength means the amount of medicine, shown here in milligrams, shortened to mg.
For the Ozempic pen labelled 0.25 mg, the opening price was $199 per monthly fill. That price lasted for two fills only. It also applied to the pen labelled 0.5 mg. It was for new patients paying outside insurance who were at least 18 years old.
Read the government’s Ozempic pen offer terms
The offer applied to U.S. residents from November 17, 2025 through December 31, 2026.
The later monthly charge was $349 for the pen labelled 1 mg. That same price applied to pens labelled 0.5 mg and to those labelled 0.25 mg. For a 2 mg pen, later fills were $499 a month.
Ask which pen strength is on your written proposal. Then compare its opening price with its later price.
Keep the offer terms beside the number. A first-fill headline cannot stand in for the later bill.
Ask what sits outside the headline
Request a written total for the opening period and for a later refill. Ask for each charge to be named, including any recurring fee.
- Does this amount include the assessment and the medicine?
- Are tests, delivery or supplies charged separately?
- What repeats automatically, and how is it cancelled?
- What would I owe if no prescription is issued?
Keep a cash offer separate from insurance
For an insured person using that self-pay offer, the terms bar asking insurance for reimbursement or counting the medicine cost toward the deductible.
Check the offer’s insurance and deductible conditions
A deductible is the amount your plan requires you to pay before certain benefits begin.
Ask the health plan for its own answer before comparing that route with cash payment. Use the same product and time period in each question.
