Stanford Medicine Children's Health
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What is Stanford Medicine Children's Health?
Stanford Medicine Children's Health runs a hospital-based weight program for children and adolescents at 1195 West Fremont Avenue in Sunnyvale, California. Its main work is treating childhood obesity. The Pediatric Weight Clinic is an outpatient service of the Center for Healthy Weight, and its providers come from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine. The clinic describes its work as multi-disciplinary evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with obesity. Its services are the Pediatric Weight Clinic, the Pediatric Weight Control Program and Adolescent Bariatric Surgery. Weight loss medication is part of the treatment. The physicians listed as prescribers are Elizabeth Shepard, MD; Marwa Abu El Haija, MD; Rachel Herdes, DO; Julia Nordgren, MD; Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD; and Sophia Yen, MD. Google lists the clinic as a medical clinic with a 3.5 rating from 38 reviews. To schedule or request a referral, call (650) 725-8707.
What does it cost?
It does not publish prices. It does not say whether a consultation fee applies or whether any price includes medication. No cash-pay rate, membership plan, HSA option or financing is listed. It does say it contracts with various HMO and PPO plans, and that coverage is set by your insurance company under your specific plan. Before you book, call (650) 725-8707 and ask for the cost of a first visit, a follow-up visit and the medication. Ask for the answer in writing if you can.
What should you ask before you book?
New patients need a referral from a primary care provider or specialist. Ask your provider to send one before you call, or ask the clinic whether its referral request form is the right route.
Ask which physician will prescribe and manage the medication, and whether you will see the same one at each visit.
Ask whether the program fee includes the medication. Ask whether the drug is brand-name or compounded, and which pharmacy fills it. The clinic does not name the weight loss medications it uses, so ask which ones it prescribes.
Ask what follow-up visits and lab work cost, and whether they are billed separately. The clinic does not say whether it offers telehealth visits, and it does not list hours, so ask about both.
Ask how cancellation works and whether you can stop after the first visit. The clinic does not address this on its pages.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if your child or teenager has obesity, you can get a referral from a primary care provider or specialist, and your plan is one of the HMO or PPO plans the clinic contracts with. It may not suit a family looking for published cash prices, because none are listed.
Sources: stanfordchildrens.org, stanfordchildrens.org/en/services/pediatric-weight-clinic.html, stanfordchildrens.org/en/services/weight-center.html
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What we confirmed
Read off Stanford Medicine Children's Health’s own website on 2026-10-12. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “Weight loss medication.” source
We have not yet collected published prices or prescriber credentials for this clinic. When we do, they will appear here with a link to the page they came from — or a note saying the clinic publishes none, which is itself worth knowing. Call them for a price in the meantime.