Practical questions
Short answers. No clinic rankings. No product pitch.
In a licensed medical office, or through a licensed online service. To compare them, ask who the clinician is and whether they really look at your health and answer your questions. Then ask which product and pharmacy they use, who you can call afterwards, and the full price.
No approved generic semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) or tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) was on the United States market as of September 2026.
A medicine mixed to order by a pharmacy (a compounded medicine) is not an approved generic.
NDC stands for National Drug Code, a number used to list a drug product in an FDA directory.
As of September 2026, the FDA said that having an NDC number did not show that the agency had approved or checked a product.
A pharmacy outside New York that shipped prescription medicine to a New York patient generally had to register with New York and stay licensed in its home state, as of September 2026.
New York’s free licence search also lets you look up pharmacies.
Pause and verify the product, prescriber, and pharmacy.
The FDA’s online-pharmacy checklist treats a price that looks far too low as a warning sign.
As of September 2026, New York counted a phone call as telehealth.
The clinician still had to judge whether a call was enough for the decision at hand.
One question that covers the rest
That one question covers the clinician, the pharmacy, the product, the price, and who you call later. If a name stays hidden, the check cannot be completed.
How to check each name