Comprehensive Weight and Wellness

About Comprehensive Weight and Wellness

What is the Weight and Wellness program at Main Line Health?

The program is run by Main Line Health, a hospital system in the Philadelphia area. It is a hospital-based weight program, not a med spa or a stand-alone clinic. Its main work is medical weight loss and bariatric surgery, and it has offices in Bryn Mawr and Broomall, Pennsylvania. The phone number is 484.476.6230. Its Google listing shows a rating of 2.7 from 7 reviews.

The program names John W. Fam, MD, FACS, FASMBS as its medical director, and he is the only prescriber it names. Services include a clinical assessment with body composition and metabolic evaluation, FDA-approved weight-loss medications when appropriate, dietitian-directed meal plans, exercise plans from an exercise physiologist, classes and support groups, and counseling. The medications it names are semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy, and tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound. Surgical options include Roux-en-y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, revisional surgery and gastric balloon.

This listing is for its Bryn Mawr office at 130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue.

What does it cost?

Main Line Health does not publish prices for this program. It gives no consultation fee, no monthly fee and no cash price for medication. It does not say whether insurance is accepted or whether medication is included in any cost. The health system has moved to a cashless and checkless payment model at its point-of-service locations. That describes how you pay, not what anything costs.

Coverage is the clearest thing the program says about medication. In its own words: "Obtaining weight loss medications is strictly dependent upon insurance coverage through your prescription plan and availability of the supply from the pharmaceutical company." Access depends on your plan and on supply, so do not assume a price until you have asked.

What should you ask before you book?

Start with coverage. Ask whether your prescription plan covers semaglutide or tirzepatide, and what you would pay if it does not. Ask whether a compounded version is offered and at what price, since the program names brand-name medications. Ask who writes and signs your prescription, and whether Dr. Fam sees you at each visit.

Then ask about the rest of the bill. Ask what the initial assessment, follow-up visits, lab work and dietitian sessions cost, one by one. Ask whether any visit can be done by telehealth, since the program does not say. Ask how you cancel and whether there is a fee to leave. If you are considering surgery, ask what the surgical evaluation costs and whether your plan covers the procedure. Ask for office hours too, since none are listed.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want a hospital-based program that can offer both medication and bariatric surgery, and you are ready to confirm coverage before you book. If you need a published cash price before you call, this program does not give one, so plan to ask.

Sources: mainlinehealth.org/specialties/comprehensive-weight-and-wellness, mainlinehealth.org/blog/comparing-weight-loss-tools

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