Plan the visit / Briefing
Questions to bring before agreeing to care
Copy the questions on this page into your notes. Bring them to a visit to ask about your health, the medicine, the pharmacy, the whole bill and help after the visit.
Product rules and prescribing guidance: as of September 26, 2026.
Begin with the health question
What are we trying to find out?
Ask what the health review is meant to answer and what information is still missing.
What else could address this concern?
Ask about other care options and why they may fit your goals.
What would lead to an in-person visit?
Ask what the online visit cannot settle and who would help you see someone in person.
Ask what the product claim means
What is the ingredient, and is the medicine a pill or an injection?
Keep the full name in your notes rather than a broad label such as “peptide therapy”.
Is this an approved or custom-made product?
Compounding prepares or alters a medicine for an individual patient. These medicines have no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and no FDA review of their quality, benefits or harms before sale.
Why is a custom-made product being discussed?
Ask which medical need an approved product cannot meet. FDA says making a medicine to order may be appropriate for that need.
Who makes it and who supplies it to me?
Ask for the pharmacy names so the records can be checked.
Ask about the plan beyond the first visit
How do I ask a follow-up question?
Ask whether contact with whoever treats you remains available once the visit ends and once your medicine arrives.
How will we review the plan?
Ask what the next conversation will cover and who explains any test results.
What does the full bill include?
Ask about visits or membership, medicine, tests and delivery as separate items.
What are the cancellation terms?
Ask what happens to each charge if you decline treatment or end the service.
Check the menu and the follow-up route
The Federation of State Medical Boards provides guidance to the state bodies that license doctors. Its guidance says a care decision needs more than a treatment selected from a menu.
Under its May 2026 guidance, patients need a route for asking follow-up questions; the enforceable rules come from states.
Reading notes
- Medical-board guidance on treatment menus
This helps explain why the health review matters even when a page starts with a choice of products.
- FDA: questions about compounding
Read why a patient might need a medicine made to order, and why that medicine still does not have FDA approval.