What the flat fee actually buys
The headline is simple and, unusually for this market, honest about being simple: “One flat price and we'll provide you with a prescription for up to a 90 day supply.” The figure is $64.99.
Read the line item carefully though, because it is doing more work than it appears: *“Virtual consult through messaging or phone call with prescription (up to 90 pills) sent to your pharmacy or home delivery.”*
What you are buying is the consultation and the prescription. The medicine is then dispensed by a pharmacy, and what the pharmacy charges is not quoted anywhere on the page. So $64.99 is not the cost of ninety pills. It is the cost of being allowed to buy ninety pills.
That is not a criticism of the model — it is the same structure as a video-visit service in this comparison, and it is a reasonable way to sell access to a prescriber. It is a criticism of the page, which invites the reading that the fee covers everything. Generic sildenafil and tadalafil are cheap, so the total will still be modest, but a man budgeting from this page will budget short.
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Check lowest price for CNL Med ED consultationNothing recurs, and it says so
“No hidden fees, no subscriptions.” Four words that a meaningful share of this market cannot bring itself to write.
Better still: *“If we can't help you, there is no charge. You will only be charged once the prescription is sent.”* You are not paying to be assessed and then told no. Several services we have audited take the money first and disclose the terms at checkout, if at all.
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Check lowest price for CNL Med ED consultationThe one thing missing from the product information
Doses. Three drugs are named — sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil — and no strength is published for any of them.
This is a smaller failing here than on a compounded product, because these are standard generics with standard, published dose ranges that any pharmacist can recite. But it still means you cannot tell from the page whether you are being offered 50 mg or 100 mg of sildenafil, and the difference between those matters to whether a trial succeeds. Why the dose is usually the reason pills 'do not work'.
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Check lowest price for CNL Med ED consultationIt runs on somebody else's platform
The sign-up routes through Push Health, which we review separately. That is disclosed on the page rather than hidden, which is the right way round.
It does mean the terms you end up agreeing to are partly a third party's, and that the two pages make quite different disclosures about the same category of drug. Worth knowing which one you are actually reading when you get there.
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Check lowest price for CNL Med ED consultationThe bottom line
For a man who wants a prescription for ordinary generics, is happy to use his own pharmacy, and does not want to be signed up to anything, this is one of the more straightforward propositions in the comparison — and one of the few where the safety information is written as though somebody expected it to be read.
Add the medication cost to the $64.99 before comparing it against a subscription service, and ask the prescriber for the strength in writing.
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