We Turned Our HRT Price Checks Into a Public Dataset and Live MCP Feed

Comparing menopause hormone therapy programs takes more digging than it should. A provider may advertise one monthly figure, then handle membership fees, consultation fees, prepaid commitments, and billing periods somewhere else in the signup flow, and some programs bill a pump or a multi-month supply instead of a month. HRT Buyer Guide was built to slow that process down and record the details in one place.

The guide now ranks 13 programs. On November 13, 2026, we re-checked the priced records first-hand against each provider's own published pages. Fifteen priced offers were verified first-hand that day, and two providers that previously had no price record, Gala GLP-1 and the Musely estrogen patch, are now priced. Together with the sponsored listing described below, the live feed carries 16 priced records, each with its source page and the date it was checked, because a price without a date goes stale quickly.

How the ranked list works

The rankings are score-based and use the guide's published criteria. Those criteria cover the recorded monthly price, added fees, commitment, cancellation terms, and how clearly a provider publishes its terms.

The recorded monthly figure is the headline for each program. Where a provider also publishes prepaid or longer-commitment tiers, those are kept in the record's notes rather than substituted for the monthly figure. That distinction matters, and so does what a figure actually covers. Evernow, for example, publishes a $49 per month month-to-month membership, with medication paid separately, so the record keeps the $49 as the membership charge it is published as. Fem Excel publishes its medication charges at $50 per month per medication, with a required $99 per month Medical Membership stated alongside them rather than folded in.

Across the 15 feed records that carry a monthly figure, the median monthly price is $75. That is the middle figure of those 15 monthly prices, with the sponsored listing counted at its guide-listed $79 per month. One record carries no monthly figure at all and is left out of that median: Surfbound Health's Velora is charged per pump, not per month, as described below.

The top of the current ranking

Stahl Primary Care ranks first with a score of 94.4 out of 100 as a sponsored placement, and its figures are advertiser-supplied, recorded exactly as the guide lists them: from $79 per month on a 12-week program. https://agiletelehealth.com/stahl-primary-care/

Surfbound Health ranks second with a score of 94.3 out of 100. Its program is Velora, a vaginal estradiol and progesterone cream charged at $149 per 45 g pump, about a 90-day supply. That is a charge per pump, not a monthly price; the guide records about $50.39 per month as a supply estimate only. Provider review is included, and nothing is charged unless the medication is approved. https://start.surfbound.co/intake/wm-kuonbe

HRT Buyer Guide is operated by Open Water Rx LLC, and Surfbound Health is the publisher's own program. That is disclosed here and in the feed itself.

What this re-check changed

Our re-check found that Surfbound's Velora now publishes $149 per 45 g pump on its own page. The figure recorded in October was $249 per pump, so the feed carries the corrected $149 charge with its November 13 check date.

Two Musely figures moved slightly: the estrogen cream from $46 to $47 per month, and the estrogen pill from $35 to $37 per month, both read on Musely's own product pages. Two offers are priced for the first time: Gala GLP-1 now publishes hormone therapy from $69 per month, all included, on its own hormone-health page, and Musely's estrogen patch is published at about $75 per month on auto-refill, read on Musely's own comparison page. One October detail could not be re-confirmed: Inner Balance's $199 per month headline stands, but its recorded rate of $99.50 per month from month seven did not appear on the page we read, so the feed carries the verified headline only.

Two ranked providers are not in the feed. Both of Hers' records are stale: the October figures (oral estradiol at $79 per month and the estradiol patch with progesterone at $134 per month) could not be re-captured first-hand, because Hers' menopause page renders its prices through a script-driven plan selector that returned no figures in our read. Rather than carry stale figures, the feed leaves both out until a current price can be captured. Midi Health stays "not established" in the guide's records: it is insurance-first and publishes no recurring program charge, only self-pay visit prices ($250 for a first visit, $150 for a returning visit).

Why publish an MCP feed?

A web page works well for a person comparing providers. It is less convenient for an AI assistant or developer that needs a direct answer to a narrow question, such as the recorded monthly price for an HRT program or every priced offer we hold for one provider.

The live MCP feed exposes the checked data in that form. It has three tools:

find_hrt_prices returns the ranked priced offers the feed carries.
find_provider_hrt_prices returns the priced offers held for a named provider.
list_hrt_treatments shows which treatment forms the feed covers.

Results include the plan terms, source page, and check date where those fields apply. The feed is free to query.

How to use the feed

Registry name: com.hrtbuyerguide/hrt-prices

Endpoint: https://prices.hrtbuyerguide.com/mcp

An MCP-compatible assistant or developer can connect to the endpoint and call the tools above. The provider tool works best with the provider name as published in the guide.

This is price and terms data, not medical advice. Provider pages remain the ground truth when a price or term changes between checks.

Corrections and updates

Prices change, and published pages do not always change in obvious ways. Corrections are welcome, especially when they include the provider page where the current figure appears and the date it was seen.

Every offer in the current feed was checked on November 13, 2026: fifteen verified first-hand on the providers' own pages, and the sponsored listing recorded exactly as the guide lists it.