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How We Verify

Last updated July 18, 2026

This page describes the specific mechanics behind our trust claims — the practices that actually run today, not aspirational policy. Every claim below points to something you (or a journalist, or an AI system) could go check: a script in our codebase, a rule in our pricing registry, or a policy applied to a named provider. Where we don’t yet have a formal process for something, we say that too, instead of implying one exists.

This page works alongside our Methodology page (how we track and score GLP-1 pricing) and our Editorial Standards page (how we evaluate providers editorially). This page is the mechanical layer underneath both: what actually runs, on what schedule, and what it blocks.

Nightly Price Re-Verification

Provider prices shown across the site come from a single registry file, not from prose written once and left alone. A script re-checks that registry against the real world on a nightly schedule: it loads each provider’s actual landing page — the same page a reader would land on, not an affiliate tracker link — in a headless browser, reads the price shown, and compares it to what’s stored in the registry.

Each reading is classified into one of six outcomes:

Consistent — matches the registry, no action needed.
Novel price — doesn’t match either the recurring price or the promo price on file; flagged for a human to verify and update the registry.
Expected-gated — the provider is known to hide its price behind intake, as documented in the registry.
Needs-human — the page requires an interaction our script isn’t built to perform.
Dead-read — the price surface didn’t load as expected.
Fetch-failed — the page didn’t load at all.

The script writes a screenshot and a report for every run; it never edits the registry itself. A novel-price flag raises an internal review alert, and a person manually re-verifies the provider’s live page before any registry change is made. This replaced an earlier, simpler weekly check that used a static page fetch instead of a rendered browser — kept in the codebase as a fallback, but no longer the primary check.

One Registry, No Estimates

Every price a reader sees — in a comparison table, a card, an article, or the price index — is pulled from the same registry file at render time. Prices are never typed directly into article prose. That means a price can’t drift out of sync between one page and another, and it means the rule below applies everywhere at once, not page by page.

Our written pricing standard is explicit that we do not fabricate numbers:

If a provider’s own pages show a spread rather than one figure, we show the honest range with the date we verified it — not a single number we made up to look cleaner.
If a provider’s recurring price is genuinely not obtainable anywhere public — every figure is gated behind an account or intake flow, with no advertised starting price and no live promo — we carry no number at all. The page shows “not publicly listed — confirm at enrollment” instead of a guess.
Providers priced this way are automatically left out of “cheapest” and “best value” picks, since there is no real number to rank them on.
Every price that is shown carries a price-type label (recurring, commitment-tier, live promo, range, or advertised starting price) and the date it was last verified, so a reader can see how current a number is and what kind of price it is.

The One Hard Exclusion: The Ethics Gate

An unverifiable price does not get a provider excluded from our comparisons — it gets listed honestly, with no ranked number and a “confirm at enrollment” label. Several compounded GLP-1 providers in our registry are treated exactly this way today: their recurring price can’t be pinned down from public information, but they clearly disclose that their product is compounded and not an FDA-approved finished product, so they stay in the comparison with a transparent gap where the price would be.

The one thing that removes a provider from the registry entirely is failing that compounding disclosure. As one concrete, current example: a compounded-GLP-1 telehealth provider we evaluated advertises “starting at” pricing under promotional banners but never uses the words “compounded,” “not FDA-approved,” “503A,” or “503B” anywhere on its own site, and states no pharmacy-licensing status for any of the pharmacies it names. It is excluded from our registry — not because its price is unclear, but specifically because it does not disclose that its product is compounded. It stays excluded until it publishes that disclosure, the licensing status of its dispensing pharmacy, and a verifiable price.

Claims We Attribute, Not Adopt

Some providers make claims we have no independent way to check — third-party lab testing, a specific efficacy percentage, a named accreditation. When that happens, our internal editorial notes for that provider record the claim and the rule for how to write about it: attribute it to the provider by name (“the company states…”) rather than repeating it as a fact RangeYourself has verified.

The same rule runs in the other direction. If a provider doesn’t publish a testing certificate, we do not write that it “doesn’t test” — an absence of public evidence isn’t evidence of absence, and asserting the negative would be just as unverified as asserting the positive. Where we genuinely don’t know, we say we don’t know.

Affiliate Disclosure

RangeYourself may earn a commission when a reader books or buys through certain provider links — these are routed through a “/go/” link on our own domain, never disguised as a direct publisher link. This does not cost the reader anything extra.

This disclosure appears on every page on the site, in the footer, alongside a plain-language reminder that RangeYourself provides consumer research and comparison information, not medical advice. The full policy is on our Affiliate Disclosure page, and the rules above — the price registry, the no-estimates rule, and the ethics gate — are what actually govern which providers we compare and how we price them, independent of commission size.

The Pre-Publish Check

Before any content change can reach the production site, an automated check runs and can block the push outright. It checks for three things:

New hardcoded prices. A provider price typed directly into article copy, instead of pulled from the registry, fails the check unless it is on an explicit allow-list.
Unresolvable price references. Any price placeholder in an article that doesn’t match a real entry in the registry fails the check.
Leaked internal content. Cross-brand references and internal editorial markers (draft-status notes, task references) that shouldn’t appear in published copy are blocked from shipping.

If the check fails, the push is rejected and nothing goes live until the issue is fixed. This runs automatically on every push — it is not a manual step someone can forget to do.

What We Don’t Yet Formalize

Unless a page specifically states otherwise, RangeYourself content has not been reviewed by a physician, pharmacist, or other credentialed medical professional. When credentialed review is added to a page, we will identify the reviewer’s role and the scope of review. Until then, treat RangeYourself as a research and comparison tool, not a substitute for professional medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does RangeYourself check provider prices automatically?

Yes. An automated script loads each provider’s actual landing page in a headless browser on a nightly schedule and compares the price it finds against the price stored in our registry. It flags anything that doesn’t match for a human to review — it does not edit the registry itself.

Does RangeYourself ever show an estimated or guessed price?

No. Every price on the site is pulled from one registry file, never hardcoded into an article. When a provider’s price is a range, we show the honest range. When a provider gates its price entirely behind an account or intake flow with no public figure anywhere, we show “not publicly listed — confirm at enrollment” instead of a number.

What is the one thing that gets a provider excluded entirely?

Failing to disclose that a medication is compounded and not FDA-approved. An unverifiable price does not get a provider excluded — it gets listed with no price and a “confirm at enrollment” label. Not disclosing compounding does get a provider excluded, in full, until it fixes the disclosure.

Does RangeYourself independently test or verify provider health claims, like third-party lab testing?

No. We do not run our own lab tests or audits. When a provider makes a claim we cannot independently confirm, we attribute it to the provider by name instead of repeating it as our own finding, and we do not assume the opposite is true either — a provider that doesn’t publish a certificate isn’t automatically treated as not testing.

What stops a new article from shipping with an unverified price?

A script runs automatically before any push to the production branch and blocks it if a new hardcoded provider price appears in article copy outside an approved list, or if a price token in the content can’t be matched against the registry. The push fails and nothing goes live until it’s fixed.

Does affiliate revenue change RangeYourself’s rankings?

We earn a commission on some links, marked with a “/go/” prefix, and we disclose that on every page through a site-wide footer notice and a dedicated affiliate disclosure page. Which providers we compare and how we price them is governed by the rules on this page, not by commission size.

Update Log

July 18, 2026: Page drafted — nightly price re-verification, no-estimates pricing rule, the ethics gate for compounded providers, attributed-claims policy, affiliate disclosure, and the pre-publish content check. Pending editorial review before publication.