Why Fuller Family Medicine?

This is a physician-supervised clinic to help with weight loss and diabetes control. We work with your insurance to help keep costs down. We pay for your shipping on the medicine. We pay for the needle disposal. We administer the medication. We will have weekly check-ins like many other weight loss clinics where we can administer the medication, dispose of the needles, and monitor for any problems. We will open our clinic at 6:45am to accommodate people’s schedules and you should be in and out in a few minutes.

How will this work?

You will make an appointment for a consultation with one of our providers to discuss weight loss/diabetes options. We will give you your 1 st injection at that visit. You will come back to the clinic weekly for an injection. After 4 injections, you will meet with your provider again to discuss how things are going and whether or not we should increase to the next dose. You will come back for weekly injections and then again meet with your provider in 4 weeks to discuss how things are going and decide if we should continue to adjust the dose, try the other option, and address side effects. We realize this is inconvenient to come here so much, but is important to medically manage you the right way and we can keep the costs down. 

What does it cost?

Visits with your provider will be billed through your insurance. If insurance does not cover the bill fully, you will be billed for the balance (much like if you are seen for knee pain, your insurance may cover most of the bill but you would still pay the remainder, such as copays, deductible, co-insurance, etc.). We will bill your insurance an injection fee (just like we do for a cortisone shot, flu shot, antibiotic shot, etc.). Then upon

discharge you will pay for the cost of the medication at the front desk, which varies depending on the medication and dose. If you don’t have insurance, you will be asked to pay $200 for the provider visits, $20 for the injection fee, and the cost of the medication. Here is the medication cost as of now, but may be subject to slightly change depending on our pharmacy costs, etc.