Medical Weight Loss
Normalize your hunger hormones with medically supervised use of GLP-1 weight loss medications.
Combined Medical and Nutrition GLP-1 Care
Achieve Lasting Results with Our Integrated Medical Weight Loss Approach
If you’ve struggled for years with your weight, you know that a weight loss journey is not as simple as learning ‘how to eat.’ In most cases, obesity is caused by imbalanced hunger hormones. GLP-1 weight loss medications like Semaglutide and Tirzepatide help to return hunger hormones to their regular levels. This allows you to experience freedom from ‘food noise’, often for the first time in your life. From there, you are more able to build new nutrition and lifestyle habits that allow you to sustain your weight loss.
That’s why, at Thrive, we support you on your healing journey by blending our dietitian-led nutrition care with the efficacy of GLP-1 weight loss medications. Our innovative program harnesses the power of personalized nutrition guidance for a healthy diet alongside close medical supervision to optimize your journey toward a healthier weight.
Lose Weight Safety and Effectively.
Unlike online programs, we prioritize your well-being by tailoring our approach to your individual needs and goals.
We complete a full medical screening before you start to make sure that you’re safe to take a GLP-1 weight loss medication. Then, we monitor you across your journey, to ensure your ongoing success.
Your GLP-1 provider also serves as your primary care provider, so that they can provide you with fully comprehensive care.
With Thrive, you’ll succeed in both the short AND long-term, so that you can achieve freedom from dieting and weight struggles for good.
What’s Covered
Medical Screening and Supervision for Safety
Custom-Matched Dietitian for Nutrition Support (Meet Every 1-2 Weeks, Virtual or In-Person)
Our GLP-1 Protocol for Optimal Success
GLP-1 Prescription (Monthly Consult for Renewal). If not covered, we can prescribe a discounted cash option.
Access to Care Team for Questions and Troubleshooting
Customized Supplement Recommendations
Unlimited Messaging with Care Team
Accountability & Progress Tracking
Worried About Cost? We got you.
We offer GLP-1 medication support to include prior authorization to get you covered. If not covered, we have access to affordable cash pay options.
GLP-1 Medical Weight Loss
Frequently Asked Questions
Let’s find out! Thrive currently bills the following plans for both primary care and nutrition:
– Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
– Tricare East (Select ONLY for Primary Care and Prime or Select for Nutrition)
– Aetna
– Cigna
– United Healthcare
– MedCost
To find out if you’re covered, start our sign-up process, where our first step is to verify your insurance coverage. Simply enter your information and insurance details, and we’ll confirm your coverage before you schedule. Start sign-up here.
Note: for medical weight loss, medical consultations with your provider and dietitian are billed to insurance. Your actual weight loss medication is billed to insurance and, if not covered, is an out-of-pocket cost.
In order to qualify for our GLP-1 weight loss program, you must have a BMI over 30 or a BMI over 27 with an obesity-related condition (i.e., high blood pressure, cholesterol, pre-diabetes, or diabetes). Before diagnosing, we will also run labs to make sure you are medically safe for the medication.
Other disqualifying factors include pregnancy, breastfeeding, some mental health disorders, previous thyroid cancer, current cancer, renal impairment, severe heart disease, hepatitis, gastroparesis, and pancreatitis. Your provider will review and discuss your medical history to ensure your safe use of GLP-1 medication.
Branded GLP-1 medications such as Ozepic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro are available and covered by many insurance plans. However, some insurance plans have stopped covering these medications, even for qualified patients. In this case, we have access to affordable cash pay programs.
Important note: an in-person primary care consultation at our clinic in Southern Pines, NC, is required for GLP-1 medication screening and prescription. A monthly 30-minute follow-up consultation is then required while taking a GLP-1 medication. Most of these medical appointments will also be in person.
We also require that you meet for insurance-billed nutrition consultations with our team of Dietitians during GLP-1 medication use.
You usually get what you pay for. We carefully screen and monitor you for ongoing safety on a GLP-1 medication. Conversely, most online programs do nor prioritize safety and monitoring, which puts you at risk. We also only prescribe safe and legal medications, unlike some online programs. Also, our medical consultations are billed to your insurance, making the overall cost with us lower than most online programs.
Another problem with online programs is that the care team does not have the chance to thoroughly medically screen and monitor you. They also are not on your full care team, so there is no way for them to integrate into your overall healthcare. These limitations put you at significant risk as well.
Finally, online programs do not set you up for long-term weight loss and weight management success. Without nutrition guidance and support, patients taking GLP-1 medication lose significant amounts of muscle (almost half of their weight loss)! This loss of muscle puts them at a very high risk for weight regain after weaning the medication. Instead, we couple you with a trained dietitian who will help you protect your muscles, minimize side effects, and build life-long habits that allow you to wean more successfully from the GLP-1 medication over time.
In addition to your monthly insurance-billed medical and nutrition consultations, your GLP-1 medication may be covered by insurance at a low cost. In the case that you are not covered, we have access to cash pay options that average $50-$100 per week.
We prescribe injectable GLP-1 medication (i.e. Wegovy or Zepbound). Before your first injection, we teach you how to administer the weight loss injections. The medication may be administered in the abdomen, thigh, or back of the arm.
During your use of GLP-1 medication with Thrive, we require monthly in-person primary care visits. During these visits, your provider will reassess you and make a decision on dosing for the following month. We support you with instructions for how to take the correct dosing of your weight loss injections.
Have a different question?
It’s your time to Thrive.
Thrive allows you to use your insurance to access GLP-1 weight loss treatments with minimal out-of-pocket costs.