Is halfrx content medically reviewed?

Not currently. Clinical statements are drawn from FDA labels and the pivotal trials cited beside them, and each card names its sources — but sourcing is not medical review, and pages that have not been reviewed say so on the page rather than leaving the reader to assume. Where a clinician has reviewed a page, their name, credentials and review date appear on it.

Where do the prices come from?

From the provider's own pricing page where one exists, read by a nightly job and approved by a person before publication. Where a provider publishes no all-in price — 14 of the 28 providers here — we record the membership fee and the medication cost separately, each with its source, and add them ourselves; 10 publish one price that covers the medication, and that figure is used as it stands.

What does halfrx refuse to publish?

A price we cannot verify, presented as verified. A card with no verified price says so in words — 'price unverified', or 'the seller publishes no all-in price' — and where a seller publishes only parts of a price, any sum halfrx makes of them is marked as an estimate, which costs the provider 0.2 points under conduct. We also do not publish dosing advice, recommendations to start or stop a medication, or interpretation of symptoms.

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Editorial standards

Every figure on this site can be traced to a named source and the date it was read. This page sets out the checks behind that, and what a figure has not been through.

Clinical review

No page on this site has been reviewed by a clinician. A review covers the page a clinician actually read and nothing else — not the other pages about the same drug, which is why a reviewed page names the date and what on it was checked. Where none has, the page says so in as many words. The larger sites in this category put a licensed physician or PharmD on every clinical page; we are not there, and we would rather print that than let the absence pass unnoticed.

A reviewer here is a real, licensed, named individual whose credentials you can verify. We will not invent one, and we will not use a title like “our medical team” to imply a person who does not exist — that is the practice this site was built to expose in others.

What each claim goes through

Prices
We check: Read from the provider's or manufacturer's own page where one exists, otherwise from a named third-party report, stamped with the date, and re-read nightly. Automated changes go to a review queue; a person approves each one.
We do not: We do not verify that a price you are quoted at checkout matches ours. Eligibility, insurance status and dose all move it.
Clinical figures
We check: Taken from the FDA label or the named pivotal trial, with the trial named on the card so you can check it.
We do not: We do not assess whether a trial applies to you, and we do not compare across trials as though the populations were the same — they are not.
Regulatory history
We check: FDA warning letters are pulled from fda.gov and matched to a company by a person before publication. FTC actions, state actions and BBB grades are recorded with their source.
We do not: We do not treat a warning letter as a finding of harm. It is a regulator putting an objection on the record, and the card says which.
Scores
We check: Arithmetic over the recorded facts, with the formula published in full and recomputed whenever the data changes.
We do not: No editorial judgment enters the number, which also means it cannot capture anything we have not measured.

Sources

Every card lists its sources and marks each one primary or secondary. Primary means a manufacturer, a regulator or a peer-reviewed journal. Secondary means a third-party tracker, and a card resting only on those carries an amber notice saying its figures are reported rather than confirmed.

Mistakes

Corrections are published with the old figure, the new one and why the old one was wrong. We do not edit a number quietly. Read the corrections log — it includes the time our top-ranked card turned out to be wrong by a factor of two.

These standards say what this site does with a fact. What it does with a reader is a separate promise, and a shorter one: what we store about you — no advertising network, no fingerprinting, and no cookie at all unless you open the chat.

Questions about how we work

Is halfrx content medically reviewed?: Not currently. Clinical statements are drawn from FDA labels and the pivotal trials cited beside them, and each card names its sources — but sourcing is not medical review, and pages that have not been reviewed say so on the page rather than leaving the reader to assume. Where a clinician has reviewed a page, their name, credentials and review date appear on it.
Where do the prices come from?: From the provider's own pricing page where one exists, read by a nightly job and approved by a person before publication. Where a provider publishes no all-in price — 14 of the 28 providers here — we record the membership fee and the medication cost separately, each with its source, and add them ourselves; 10 publish one price that covers the medication, and that figure is used as it stands.
What does halfrx refuse to publish?: A price we cannot verify, presented as verified. A card with no verified price says so in words — 'price unverified', or 'the seller publishes no all-in price' — and where a seller publishes only parts of a price, any sum halfrx makes of them is marked as an estimate, which costs the provider 0.2 points under conduct. We also do not publish dosing advice, recommendations to start or stop a medication, or interpretation of symptoms.

The registers named in these standards

A standard that says a record was checked owes the reader the register it was checked in.

Warning letters, U.S. Food and Drug Administration — The register searched for every seller on this site. A letter found here is linked from the seller's page to the original.
Cases and proceedings, Federal Trade Commission — The register searched for advertising and billing actions against a seller.