Research notes
Notes on how these programs price and bill
Longer notes on the arithmetic and the traps behind it. Every figure quoted here comes from the same record sheet as the rest of the site.
6 notesChecked Oct 23, 2026
Enclomiphene vs TRT: how they differ and what each costsMechanism, fertility, FDA status and monthly cost. Checked Nov 3, 2026.The ten-week trap: why vial size is not a billing cycleTwelve 28-day cycles make 336 days, not 365. That gap is why a 70-day charge recurs more than five times a year, and why dividing it by two and a half understates the annual cost.Why the ranked list is not a price sortA list sorted on price is a price list. The ranked page here is a commercial publisher ranking: the publisher chooses each score and position, and the sourced price sits beside the row as a separate fact.What an unpriced lab fee does to a recordThe most common trap in this category is a required lab panel billed by the laboratory. It is required, it is real, and it has no number. Here is how the record treats it.Blank is not zero: a contract, not a preferenceMembership fees are the most common place a blank gets read as free. The difference between null and 0 is the difference between an unknown charge and a published one.The in-clinic cost that never appears in a priceA pellet program requires a visit every cycle. Travel and time are real costs, and no program publishes them. Where a record carries the requirement it states it instead of inventing a number.