Iowa Weight Loss Specialists - Ames
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What is Iowa Weight Loss Specialists, Ames?
Iowa Weight Loss Specialists is part of Iowa Specialty Hospital and Clinics, a municipally owned hospital system licensed as a Critical Access Hospital in Iowa. It has offices in more than one Iowa town, including Ames and Des Moines. The Ames office is inside Mary Greeley Medical Center at 1111 Duff Avenue, Suite 2607, Ames, IA 50010. The phone number is 515-327-2000. Google lists the business as a medical clinic with a 4.5 rating from 19 reviews.
This office offers one service, medical weight management. The clinic describes it this way: "This service focuses on medical (non-surgical) weight management and is designed for individuals who prefer a structured, doctor-supervised approach to weight loss." The program combines nutrition counseling, behavioral health and lifestyle guidance, and it may include FDA-approved medications for weight loss. The clinic does not name the medications. The wider network also offers gastric sleeve surgery, but that is a separate service and not part of this office's program. The hospital system says it can provide telehealth to patients who live in Iowa.
This listing is for its Ames office at 1111 Duff Ave Ste 2607.
What does it cost?
The clinic does not publish prices for this program. It does not state a consultation fee, and it does not say whether insurance is accepted or whether a monthly fee would include medication. The clinic does say this: "No one will be denied access to services due to inability to pay." It also mentions a discounted or sliding fee schedule, but the schedule itself is not shown, so you will not know your likely cost until you ask.
What should you ask before you book?
Start with who prescribes. No prescriber is named for this office, so ask which clinician would sign any prescription and whether you would see that person in Ames or by video. If medication is part of your plan, ask which drug it would be, whether it is brand-name or compounded, and whether its cost is in the program fee or billed separately.
Then ask what the first visit costs and what the monthly fee is. Find out whether that fee covers follow-up visits and lab work. Ask how the sliding fee schedule works and what you would pay under it. Ask whether the office takes insurance, and if it does not, ask for the cash price in writing. Finally, ask how cancellation works and whether there is a minimum commitment.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want a non-surgical program run through a hospital system, you are comfortable with a doctor-supervised approach, and you are willing to get the fee and prescriber answers in writing before you commit. It is a weaker fit if you need a published price before you call, because none is posted.
Sources: iowaspecialtyhospital.com/locations/ames--iowa-specialty-hospital/mary-greeley-medical-center, iowaspecialtyhospital.com/services/weight-loss-management, iowaspecialtyhospital.com/services/weight-loss-surgery
Services Offered
What we confirmed
Read off Iowa Weight Loss Specialists - Ames’s own website on 2026-10-13. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “Weight Management (Medical)” 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.
Hours
Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm