Funding, ownership and paid placements

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Who publishes this

This publication is owned and operated by Open Water RX LLC, which is accountable for every record published here. Editorial correspondence, corrections and complaints go to the contact address on the contact page; there is no separate editorial board and no outsourced newsroom.

No clinic, clinician, pharmacy or laboratory writes, approves or edits a sourced figure. Every provider record carries a field recording whether the program is connected to this publication; in this edition, all of them read no.

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No ownership in the companies we record

Open Water RX LLC, the publisher of this guide, holds no stake of any kind in any company recorded here. Not equity, not shares, not options, not a profit share, not a revenue share, and not a right to any future payment from any provider, clinic, pharmacy, laboratory or brand named on this site. That is true of the whole edition, not only the records that currently rank well.

The reverse also holds: no provider, clinic, pharmacy or laboratory owns any part of this publication, and none of them writes or approves a sourced figure. A commercial placement is a separate contract that buys a labelled position or label, and it is disclosed on the record it touches — see the funding and placement sections below.

• No officer, director or editor of the publisher holds a financial interest in, or a position with, any company recorded here.
• No provider has any right to review, approve, delay or remove a record before or after publication.
• A sourced figure is corrected only on the provider page that shows a different value. A commercial arrangement never edits a price, a fee, a cadence or a source date.
• A shared word in a brand name is not a relationship. Companies with similar names are recorded as separate companies unless a provider page says otherwise.

If this ever changes, this page and the corrections log change on the same date, before or alongside the affected record. A stake disclosed after the fact is not a disclosure.

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Funding

This publication is funded by advertising and commercial placements. Paid positions inside the ranked list, featured listings, sponsor cards, sponsored guide sections, provider-profile sponsorship and separately contracted referral campaigns are all offered, and each one is contracted on its own terms.

Active paid entries carry a visible label. The mechanism exists and is described here rather than being ruled out: a paid position inside the ranking and a sponsorship anywhere else both carry the single label “Sponsored” beside the score, on the card or on the profile itself, its outbound links are marked rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and this page is updated on the same date.

Advertising does not set a sourced figure. A price, a fee, a billing interval, a commitment or a check date changes only when the provider page shows a different value. What a paid arrangement can influence is the publisher score and the publisher position, which are commercial judgements by definition and are published as such.

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Placements and commissions

Every offer carries a sponsored field. An entry whose field reads yes holds a contracted placement; its label appears beside its score and position, and the arrangement is stated on the page rather than only in a footer.

Paid placement status is shown in each program’s current listing and generated record.

Publisher ownership is a separate matter from a placement, and it is disclosed because it can influence a commercial judgement.

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Where a price can come from

Only a provider page can set a price. A charge is recorded from the provider’s own pricing, plan or fee page, at the standing rate, with the page and the date it was read.

A third-party roundup, review site, comparison blog or marketing page never sets a price, a billing cadence or a required fee. Where a figure exists only in one of those, the field stays blank rather than being carried as a sourced number.

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Every company is tracked by billing period, not by calendar month

All of the companies recorded here are tracked the same way: by billing period, meaning the interval at which money is actually charged. That interval is stored exactly as the provider publishes it, and it is never assumed.

Those periods are not identical. Some programs bill every 28 days, others bill every calendar month, some bill every 10 or 12 weeks, and some publish a monthly price without defining which month they mean. A 28-day cycle recurs thirteen times a year; a calendar month recurs twelve. The two are not interchangeable, and no record here silently converts one into the other.

A monthly equivalent is therefore an arithmetic conversion, not a billing schedule. It is labeled as derived everywhere it appears. If a provider does not publish an interval, the record reads not established and no monthly figure is calculated.

Compare the billing interval on each record before comparing the numbers beside it. Two charges of the same size on different intervals are not the same annual cost.

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Provider statements

Where a record repeats a provider’s marketing (a percentage, a start price, a satisfaction promise), it is labeled as the provider’s own wording and is never presented as our finding. A statement that cannot be tied to a dated provider page is not repeated here.

A stated share of patients, an outcome claim or a symptom-improvement promise is not recorded as a price or a term, because none of those can be verified from a pricing page. Those fields stay blank.

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Right of reply

A provider named in a record can send a statement through the contact form. It is published beside that record, unedited, with the date it was received. Any factual correction it contains is applied to the record and logged in the corrections log with the previous value kept.

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Our other publications and sites

Open Water RX LLC publishes this guide, GLP1BuyerGuide.com and HRTBuyerGuide.com, and it also operates Surfbound Health (surfbound.co), a consumer telehealth brand. The sister publications therefore include Surfbound Health alongside the two buyer guides.

That is a publisher relationship, not a position in this ranking. Surfbound Health is not one of the providers recorded, scored or counted in this edition, and nothing on this page should be read as a placement for it. One labelled commercial placement is contracted in this edition: Stahl Primary Care. It holds the publisher’s first ranked position as a sponsored entry, and it is labelled “Sponsored” on its row, its card and its profile. Its commercial details are advertiser-provided, it sits outside the researched provider records, and it is excluded from every researched price count. A placement is disclosed on the page it appears on, and this page is updated on the same date.

Because the publisher also operates a telehealth brand, the separation between publishing and selling is stated rather than assumed: the brand has no access to a record before publication, and no sourced figure here is changed because of it. A commercial judgement about a score or a position is disclosed where a paid placement exists.

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What a paid placement does not change

• The arithmetic behind any monthly figure, or the check date on any field.
• The requirement for a source URL and a check date on every field.
• The rule that one page ranks and everything else is alphabetical.
• The disclosure of the arrangement on the record itself.

A commercial judgement can be influenced by a paid arrangement. Ownership, funding and the placement label are disclosed on this page so the two are never confused.

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Do your own due diligence

This publication is a starting point, not a substitute for checking a provider yourself. Every figure here is dated to the day it was read, and providers change prices, billing intervals, membership fees, promotions, state availability, cancellation rules and refund terms without notice.

Before any payment is made, read the provider’s own pricing, fee and terms pages, confirm the billing interval and the exact first charge including any separate lab, consultation or membership fee, and read the cancellation and refund terms in full. Where our record and a provider page disagree, the provider page is what you will be charged.

No figure on this site is an offer, a quote or a promise of a price, and nothing here is a recommendation to begin treatment. Verifying the current terms is the reader’s own responsibility, and it is the one step this publication cannot take for you.

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Trademarks

Product names, brand names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify what a program dispenses. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.