An employer adding obesity care to its health plan and a patient paying for GLP-1 treatment on their own end up at different companies here: Calibrate sells to the employer, and Found sells to the patient.
Employers and health plans that need an obesity program aimed at GLP-1 cost management with coaching and outcomes tracking
Individuals hunting the lowest cash-pay compounded tirzepatide refill
Consumers who want clinician-guided weight care with insurance options where available
Patients who need in-person specialty obesity medicine with local procedures
Calibrate sells physician-guided obesity programs mainly to employers and health plans, with coaching and outcome reporting, and bills medication through pharmacy benefits separately from the program fee.
Found is a direct-to-consumer telehealth path at joinfound.com: clinicians review patients online, membership plus medication is the commercial model, and pharmacy partners ship when a prescription is written.
Calibrate now sells mostly to employers after moving away from consumers. Found notes that compounded medications are not FDA-approved finished drugs.
Calibrate charges employers a per-employee monthly or program fee, and the health plan pays for the GLP-1 drugs. Found charges the patient a monthly membership plus the cost of medication at their dose.
“I've started getting targeted ads on social media for a new weight loss program called Found, has anyone heard of it or tried it? From briefly perusing their website it looks like they're essentially identical to Calibrate with the notable difference of also prescribing phentermine and the cost being a little lower at $99/month. At this point I've sunk too much time and money into Calibrate to switch over and risk interruptions in my prescriptions, but this definitely seems like a good option.”
imagine1392 · r/calibrateweightloss · · source
“I did it for several months last year and it was okay, but not great. My state qualifies for phentermine, but they would only do bupropion and naltrexone for me. Fine. It didn't work well, and I went up to the max dose. I lost very minimal weight, but it did curb cravings, so there's that. The coaching is three texts a week and it's all canned.”
Purple-Explorer-6701 · r/calibrateweightloss · · source
Choose Calibrate when the employer contract must report obesity and GLP-1 outcomes to the plan, not only fill a script.
Choose Found when the patient pays out of pocket and wants care online.
Skip both if the only goal is the cheapest compounded refill with no clinician relationship, or if in-person specialty obesity care is required.