Glossary
What each one means on this site, and every review that uses it. A word earns a page here by appearing in the reviews, not by being on a list somebody wrote.
9 entries. A word gets one once 5 of the 412 published reviews use it, counted by matching the reviews' own text, so every definition below arrives with the evidence that it was needed.
| Term | What it means here | Reviews using it |
|---|---|---|
| Compounded | On this site, compounded describes a medication a pharmacy prepares for a named patient rather than one dispensed as a manufacturer's finished, branded product. | 411 of 412 |
| Membership | On this site, a membership is a recurring charge billed alongside medication, and it counts toward the price whenever the medication cannot be bought without it. | 333 of 412 |
| 503A | On this site, 503A records that a company's own pages describe the pharmacy filling its prescriptions with that label. | 298 of 412 |
| 503B | On this site, 503B records that a company's own pages describe the pharmacy filling its prescriptions with that label. | 203 of 412 |
| Prepay | On this site, a prepay is any plan that charges several months at once in exchange for a lower per-month rate. | 119 of 412 |
| HSA and FSA | On this site, HSA and FSA record whether a company says its own charges can be paid from a health savings account or a flexible spending account, and which charges. | 118 of 412 |
| Overseas fulfillment | On this site, overseas fulfillment records only what a company's own pages say about where a medication is sourced or shipped from. | 93 of 412 |
| Titration | On this site, titration is the stepping up of a dose over time, and it is recorded because at most of these companies the price steps up with it. | 75 of 412 |
| Auto-renewal | On this site, auto-renewal means a plan or membership that bills again on its own at the end of each term unless the reader cancels it first, in the company's own words. | 65 of 412 |
These were proposed and did not clear the floor. Their counts are re-measured every time the site builds, so if one of them starts appearing in the reviews, the build says so rather than the list quietly going stale.
| Term | Reviews using it |
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Nothing here is a clinical, legal or regulatory statement. Each entry says how the word is used on this site and shows the reviews that use it; where a company's own words matter, they are quoted in the review with the date they were read. How we review · medical disclaimer.
All 412 reviews are on the index, priced by molecule on the molecule pages, with the findings drawn across them in the answers.