VitalityMDs
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What is VitalityMDs?
VitalityMDs is a medical practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded as a women's health office and grown into a broader practice treating both women and men. It was started by Russell Bartels, MD, FACOG, who still practices there alongside a team of nurse practitioners: Debbie Lasker, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, Megan Palmisano, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, Jacqueline Reveal, DNP, FNP-BC, Alexandra Treinen, MSN, FNP-C, and Tram Thi Wallen, DNP, WHNP-BC. The practice's main work spans gynecology, men's health, functional medicine, and hormone replacement therapy, with weight loss offered as one of its services through what it calls a Lifestyle Weight Loss Program.
Weight loss care here is built around a health coach, Dalia Blunt, MS, NBC-HWC, who runs an initial wellness visit and ongoing coaching, with medications integrated "when appropriate." The medications named are GLP-1 drugs, HCG, and B-12 shots, used alongside nutrition and lifestyle coaching rather than as a prescription only program. The practice also offers medspa and aesthetic services, lab testing, and hormone pellet therapy. It describes having been in operation "for decades." VitalityMDs has offices in Scottsdale.
This listing is for its Scottsdale office at 8415 N Pima Rd #210a.
What does it cost?
No price is published for the GLP-1, HCG, or B-12 weight loss program, for consultations, or for hormone therapy generally. One thing is stated clearly: hormone pellet costs, which include both the pellet and the office visit, are now cash pay only, due to insurance coverage issues. Whether that cash pay policy extends to GLP-1 prescribing or other services is not said. Ask for the current price of a consultation, the pellet cost, and what a weight loss program runs before you book.
What should you ask before you book?
Ask who on the team would actually write your prescription, since the practice lists one physician and several nurse practitioners, and their scope of practice can differ. Ask whether a GLP-1 medication is billed separately from the coaching program or folded into one price, and whether it is a brand name drug or a compounded version. Ask what a follow up visit or lab work costs beyond the initial consultation, and whether the Lifestyle Weight Loss Program, described as an eight week curriculum, requires paying for the full term up front or can be adjusted along the way. If hormone therapy is what brought you in, confirm that the cash pay pellet policy applies to your specific treatment plan before you commit.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want weight loss handled as part of a broader women's and men's health practice, with a coach involved alongside medication rather than a stand alone prescribing clinic. It is less of a fit if you want a published price before you ever pick up the phone, since none of the costs for consultations, medications, or the weight loss program are listed anywhere.
Sources: vitalitymds.com, vitalitymds.com/weight-loss, vitalitymds.com/hormone-replacement-therapy, vitalitymds.com/estrogen-testosterone-pellets
Services Offered
What we confirmed
Read off VitalityMDs’s own website on 2026-10-10. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “When appropriate, we help patients integrate GLP-1 medications, HCG, B-12 shots and other helpful tools that work alongside a balanced diet and regular exercise.” source
- ✓Hormone therapy — listed on their site as “All of the methods above are available at VitalityMDs and each patient’s regimen is individualized to their unique needs.” source
- ✓Longevity / anti-aging — listed on their site as “In addition to providing gynecologic care, the healthcare providers at VitalityMDs have become leaders in treatments focused on prevention, rejuvenation, and anti-aging for both women and men.” source