How we check clinics

A directory is only useful if you know how it was made. This page says exactly how VitalityMatch finds a clinic, what we read about it, what we will and will not claim, and how a clinic corrects us. Nothing here is aspirational: it describes what runs today.

Where the clinics come from

We work through the country one metro area at a time. For each one we search Google for the kinds of care we cover (medical weight loss, hormone therapy, peptide therapy, longevity medicine) and collect every business Google returns for it, with its address, phone number and website. A business with no website, or whose website says it does none of these things, is left out. A hospital system or a chain with many offices is read office by office, so each office page describes that office and not its headquarters.

What we read, and how we keep ourselves honest

For every clinic we read its own website: the pages about its services, its prices, its clinicians and their credentials, its hours and its contact details. Each fact we publish is tied to the page it came from, and our software checks every fact against that page before it is allowed onto the site. A fact that cannot be found on the clinic's own pages is dropped, not guessed. That is why some listings are short: we would rather say less than invent.

The write-up on each listing is drafted by our software from those pages, then checked by rules that look for claims the source does not support, superlatives, and medical promises, and strip them. It is written to read the way a knowledgeable friend would describe the clinic, and it is replaced the moment the clinic sends its own words through its update link (below).

What "Verified listing" means

Verified means we checked this is a real, operating business and not a shell or a fake: it has a working website and a working phone number, and we list it. That is the entire claim. It says nothing about the quality of care, the clinicians' licensure, or whether a treatment is right for you. A listing without the badge is one where we could not confirm both a website and a phone number yet.

Credentials are different. Where a listing names a credential (a board certification, a specialty society membership), we name the body that issues it and link to what the credential means on our credentials glossary. We do not verify individual practitioners' licences; your state medical board does that, and we say so.

Ratings

The star rating and review count on a listing are Google's, read from the clinic's Google Business Profile and refreshed on a schedule. We do not collect our own reviews, we do not adjust Google's number, and a clinic cannot change it through us. If a listing shows no rating, we have not matched it to a Google profile yet.

Prices

Every price on this site is one a clinic published on its own website, copied word for word, with the page it came from and the date we read it. 3,788 clinics publish a price today; the rest do not, and their listings say so rather than estimate. The price pages are built only from those published figures. We never average in prices from other websites, and no clinic can pay to have a price shown or hidden. Prices change; confirm with the clinic before you book.

What a clinic can change itself

Every listing carries an "Is this your clinic? Update your listing" link. A clinic that proves it is the clinic (the link is sent only to an address at its own domain or one published on its own website) can change its services, treatments, prices, hours, insurance and telehealth details, and write its own description. Those changes go live within the hour. A new name, address, website, a credential, or a request to be removed waits for a person to look at it first. Anything a clinic supplies is marked as supplied by the clinic.

What money does and does not buy

Inclusion is free and cannot be bought or sold. A clinic can pay for a Featured listing, which shows it first on its city and service pages with a Featured label, so you always know which placements are paid. Featured changes nothing else: not the write-up, not the rating, not whether the clinic is Verified, and not the order of the unpaid listings below it. We do not run affiliate links to the online providers we review, and we say so on each review.

How the guides are written

The guides are written and reviewed by Laura de Leon, who spent more than two decades in pharmaceutical clinical development before building this site. They are written for the person deciding whether to spend money on a treatment, not for a search engine: each one makes its point first and then shows the source. Where a guide quotes prices, it quotes the published prices in this directory, and the date on the guide is the date those figures were last checked. No guide is sponsored, and no company reviews a guide before it is published.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, tell us through the contact page and name the clinic; a clinic can fix its own listing through its update link at any time. We correct facts, we do not negotiate them, and we do not remove a listing because a clinic would prefer a different rating.

Nothing on this site is medical advice. Whether a treatment is right for you is a question for a licensed clinician; see our medical disclaimer. The method for ranking the online providers is on How We Rank.