Answer · read August 2026
What happens to the money when the answer is no, in the words of the companies that say.
The TrimRx and FuturHealth intake examples below were recorded in August 2026. Their current public offers have changed; see the refreshed TrimRx and FuturHealth reviews before comparing today’s prices or refund terms.
At 341 of the 412 companies here, nothing on record answers the question at all. Among the 71 that do, the answers go both ways, and at one company the two documents disagree with each other.
What this piece found
Every company, counted
412 companies published on this site. 71 carry language about what happens when no prescription is written. The match is deliberately narrow, because the word refund is everywhere on these sites and this particular promise is not. Each one appears below with the sentence it was matched on. On the remaining 341, nothing in the record addresses the decline case, which describes the public record as of August 31, 2026, not those companies' policies. Separately, 62 companies disclose a provider-visit fee at all, and that fee is what is usually at stake here.
71 of 412, which is fewer than one in four. It is the question a reader has after they have decided to buy and before they have paid, and most of these sites do not have an answer to it anywhere a shopper would find.
Three publish it plainly and one publishes something better. TrimRx put it on the August 2026 order summary, 34 steps into its then-current intake: 100% refunded if not prescribed — Only charged if your prescription is approved.
That is the right place for it: the screen where the card details go next.
Alan Health: If the doctor determines you're not a candidate for your selected program, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee.
Enhance MD scopes its to the onboarding window: 100% Money-back guarantee — If at any point during the onboarding process your provider finds you ineligible for medication, Enhance MD will provide a refund.
None of those three is a promise about whether the treatment works, and none of them claims to be. They cover the eligibility decision and nothing else, and that is the correct scope for a guarantee a company can actually keep.
One company, and it has you consent to it in writing. Synergy Rx's checkout line reads There is an $80 TeleHealth visit cost regardless of whether I receive medication.
So an intake that ends in a decline still costs $80: a charge for the evaluation, whether or not the evaluation produces a prescription.
The reason that row is worth more than a shrug is what sits beside it. Breeze Meds runs the same intake platform, the same screens and the same $80 fee, and describes it as conditional: charged only if a prescription is approved and you then decide not to proceed. One fee, two sites, opposite terms, on the same day. A reader comparing the two is not comparing two independent options.
Green Cap Health takes a third route: it does not say what happens to the money, but it does say the outcome is not assured. Important Notice: Prescription approval is not guaranteed.
That is a warning rather than a policy, and it is more than most of this roster prints.
It can, and one does. CoreAge Rx's FAQ says a declined prescription gets a full refund. Its refund policy says the $50 to $100 consultation fee is non-refundable in exactly that case, on the reasoning that the eligibility review has already been done. Both documents are on the same site and both were live on August 31, 2026.
We are a partner of CoreAge's and this is on the page anyway, because the alternative is a site whose findings depend on who pays it. The disclosure that governs every link here is on who pays us, and the visit fee itself is counted alongside nine others on the consultation-fee comparison.
| Company | What our own record says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CoreAge Rx | Any applicable provider consultation fee of $50–$100 is non-refundable, because the medical consultation and eligibility review have already been performed. | CoreAge's FAQ against its refund policy, read the same dayRead September 2026 |
| Eden | If no prescription is written after the first evaluation, the $39 first-month membership fee is refunded in full. | Our reading of Eden's termsRead September 2026 |
| Direct Meds | If a Direct Meds doctor decides treatment isn't right for you, you're promised a full refund. | Our reading of Direct Meds's home pageRead September 2026 |
Brello Health is the clearest of them, and it says so on the home page: No intake form required before you pay.
You pay, the provider reviews you afterwards, and a decline is refunded in full. Change your mind after an approval instead and the refund is your payment minus a $50 professional services fee, requested by email within 24 hours of the review.
That order of operations is not unusual on this roster. Several funnels take a card before a clinician has seen anything, and that is what makes the decline case worth asking about at all. Where the price arrives before the medical questions, the money often does too: how many steps before a company shows you a price counts where each funnel puts the number.
It means none of the pages cited in each company's review answered it on August 31, 2026. It does not mean those 341 companies charge you for nothing, and it does not mean they refund you either. A policy that lives in an email reply or a support script never shows up on a public page, so ask before you pay.
What is fair to say is narrower and still useful: at 341 of 412 companies, a shopper reading the public pages before paying cannot find out what happens if the answer is no.
Every sentence below was read on the company's own domain, or off a screen we reached ourselves, on August 31, 2026, and is quoted verbatim.
| Company | What it is | What they say, verbatim | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| TrimRx | Refunded, in their words | 100% refunded if not prescribed — Only charged if your prescription is approved. | Historical observation; current offer may differ. TrimRx's order summary, 34 steps inRead August 2026 |
| Alan Health | Refunded, in their words | If the doctor determines you're not a candidate for your selected program, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee. | Alan's FAQRead August 2026 |
| Enhance MD | Refunded, in their words | 100% Money-back guarantee — If at any point during the onboarding process your provider finds you ineligible for medication, Enhance MD will provide a refund. | Enhance MD's guarantee blockRead August 2026 |
| Brello Health | Refunded, in their words | No intake form required before you pay. | Brello's home page: you pay first, and the review comes afterRead August 2026 |
| Synergy Rx | Charged anyway | There is an $80 TeleHealth visit cost regardless of whether I receive medication. | Synergy's checkout consent line, 13 steps inRead August 2026 |
| Green Cap Health | Approval is not promised | Important Notice: Prescription approval is not guaranteed. | Green Cap's notice under the tier gridRead August 2026 |
| NavioMD | Charged anyway | If your provider determines you're not medically eligible, no medication will be prescribed. You'll only be responsible for the provider visit fee, and the medication cost will be refunded. | NavioMD's Prescription & Treatment panel. Its refund answer adds that the visit fee is non-refundable "as the medical service has been rendered", and no page gives the fee a numberRead September 2026 |
Some companies named here pay us a commission when a reader starts care through a marked link. The one marked link on this page is one of them, picked by rule and disclosed beside it. Nothing above is ordered by who pays: the table is grouped by what the company says happens, and every figure is read out of the roster. Who pays us · how we review · every review.