Form Health
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Good if you have money and patience
I did Form for several months. At first it was great, I started a medication and it was a big help. The dietician at first was helpful as well, gave some useful tips but didn’t require super strict adherence to calorie counts or things like that. However, it was a huge headache going back and forth with prior authorizations, refills, pharmacy stock issues, etc. I spent hours on the phone trying to get medication. Form doesn’t coordinate with pharmacies and they don’t publish their phone number, so my pharmacist couldn’t even call to try to coordinate with them. Ultimately, my insurance plan, after approving my PA finally, then did a blanket reversal and cancelled all GLP1s for everyone a couple months after I started. I can’t afford out of pocket full costs for the name brand medication. My doctor first assured me that we could look at other options but then it turns out none of them were appropriate for me. The doctor basically said if I wasn’t “focused” on my weight goals—ie willing to pay $1000 a month out of pocket for Wegovy—there wasn’t anything she could offer and recommended I “pause” my membership. She was adamant that compounded medication would not be safe and that the only acceptable form of GLP1s would be the name brands. The dietician kept giving me really generic advice and sending me links to food plans that included meat (I’m vegetarian ) and products with artificial sweeteners (I’m incredibly sensitive to those.) She told me I could look through these lists and look up the ingredients for each product, which honestly was just super stressful and time consuming. It didn’t feel personalized when so much of the advice was in the form of handouts not specific to my needs. I ended up cancelling after a couple of months of going off meds. Without medication, Form is just fairly generic diet advice and an app that harasses you to get on your scale. Oh and about that “free” scale they send you after you sign up and pay the fee: I got an EOB from my insurance company. Form billed them $200 a month for “remote physiologic monitoring.” That is why they require you to weigh 16 times a month—so they can bill your insurance for this “service.” This is on top of the copays you pay and the amount they bill insurance for your dietician and doctor visits. This seems super scammy to me, as they don’t actually look at your weights in between visits, and the dietician even said that frequent weights aren’t necessary. Weekly is fine for most people. The idea behind Form is solid, IF you don’t mind weighing yourself every other day; IF your insurance covers meds or you have the funds to pay the cost outright; IF you don’t have food allergies or dietary limitations that narrow your choices; and IF you have the time and energy to search for a pharmacy each month that has your medication in the dosage you need in stock.