Criteria
How we rank TRT programs: eight criteria, plainly defined
A criterion describes what a program publishes. It is not an endorsement, a clinical judgment, or a statement that a program will accept any particular buyer.
Reading these percentages
This edition records each charge as the provider bills it, together with a membership fee and a first payment where one exists. 4 records now publish a commitment length, 4 publish a state list and 4 publish more than one commitment tier, but no source row carries a dose structure, so several percentages below read low. That is a statement about the research rather than about the market. The fields are published so the gap is visible instead of being smoothed over.
Labs included
Price fieldThe provider publishes that required lab work is included in the recurring charge. A lab panel described as billed by the laboratory does not meet this criterion.
6%
of programs meet it
No separate membership
Price fieldEither no membership fee is charged, or the membership is published as $0, or the medication is included in the recurring charge so no second fee exists.
0%
of programs meet it
Flat monthly across dose
Price fieldThe same charge applies at every dose the provider offers. Dose-tiered pricing is recorded as varies by dose.
0%
of programs meet it
Month to month
Term fieldNo initial term is published, and the buyer can stop before a second payment is taken.
6%
of programs meet it
In-person exam required
Term fieldThe provider states that an in-person examination is required. This is recorded as a term, never as a price.
0%
of programs meet it
Compounded available
Term fieldA compounded preparation is offered. A compounded preparation is not an FDA-approved finished product and is not interchangeable with a branded one.
41%
of programs meet it
FDA-approved only
Term fieldEvery medication offered is an FDA-approved finished product. Compounded preparations are excluded from this criterion.
18%
of programs meet it
Ships to all 50 states
Term fieldThe provider publishes a state list covering all 50 states. A blank state list is recorded as unknown, never inferred as nationwide.
6%
of programs meet it
Percentages count a program only where the provider published the fact. An unpublished lab arrangement does not count as labs included, and an unstated term does not count as month to month. A blank is excluded from the numerator, never counted as a yes.
Boundaries
What the criteria cannot tell you
Matching is not endorsing
Criteria describe what a program publishes, not what any individual will be offered. Meeting a criterion is not an endorsement. A record can meet every criterion and still carry a limitation that changes the cost.
An exam is a term, not a price
An in-person examination requirement is recorded as a term. Travel and visit time are real costs, and we do not invent a figure for them.
Silence is not nationwide
A blank state list is recorded as unknown. We never read silence as availability in all 50 states.
Four forms, one record each
Injectable, oral, topical and implanted are the four formulations recorded here. A pellet is implanted in a clinic rather than injected, so it keeps its own column, and a record whose source never named a formulation stays unassigned.