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Contribution per patient per month, the panel size your program settles at once departures balance enrollments, the month it covers its own overhead, and the cumulative contribution over your horizon. Cash-pay model, your numbers, no projections about demand.
The short answer: a weight-management program's contribution is (program price − medication − consult fees − platform − shipping − support − processing) × active patients, minus program overhead. The ceiling is set by churn: a panel stops growing at roughly new patients per month ÷ monthly churn rate, no matter how long you run it.
Per patient, per month. Pull medication cost from your pharmacy schedule, not from a rep's slide.
Churn is the number that decides whether the program compounds or treadmills.
The program
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Churn sets the ceiling. Enrollment sets how fast you approach it. At 15 new patients a month and 8% monthly churn, the panel converges near 188 patients — and stays there, because 8% of 188 is the 15 you just enrolled. Cut churn to 4% and the same enrollment supports 375. That is why the retention work — the check-in cadence, the side-effect call in week two, the refill that does not lapse — is worth more than another ad campaign at the same spend.
It does not model demand, conversion from lead to enrolled patient, or the clinical appropriateness of any patient for any therapy. It does not model insurance billing. And it takes no position on which medications a practice can offer — compounded medications are not FDA-approved, and availability depends on the pharmacy, the current FDA posture, and your state. The sequencing question — prescriber, pharmacy, platform, patients, in that order — is covered in adding GLP-1 in the right order, and the pharmacy structures are in 503A vs 503B.
Take the monthly program price, subtract medication cost, prescriber or consult fees, platform cost, shipping, staff support time and card processing — that is contribution per patient per month. Multiply by your active panel and subtract program overhead. Panel size is the part most models get wrong: it is not new patients times months, because patients leave.
New patients per month divided by monthly churn rate. At 15 new patients a month and 8% monthly churn, the panel stops growing near 188 — not because enrollment slows, but because 8% of a larger panel is a larger number of departures. Halving churn roughly doubles the ceiling, which is why retention work usually beats more ad spend.
Because it compounds against you every month. A $20 price increase adds $20 per patient per month; cutting churn from 8% to 4% doubles the steady-state panel, and therefore doubles the whole program's contribution at the same acquisition rate. Both are worth doing — only one changes the ceiling.
Compounded medications are not FDA-approved, and what a practice may offer depends on the drug, the pharmacy relationship, current FDA shortage and enforcement posture, and your state's rules. This calculator models economics only and takes no position on any specific product. Our guide to adding GLP-1 in the right order covers the sequence, and we discuss product availability on a call rather than on a web page, because it changes.
No. It models a cash-pay monthly program, which is how most aesthetic and wellness practices run weight management. If you bill insurance, the revenue line and the collection timing are different enough that this sheet will not represent your program.
Cash to open, fixed monthly burn, and the visits a month that cover it.
Run your numbers →Buy against lease, with payback and the treatments a month each platform must hold.
Compare buy vs. lease →503A, 503B, BUD, cGMP, office stock — the vocabulary of every pharmacy agreement.
Read the glossary →Prescriber coverage, pharmacy relationship, platform, then patients — in that order. A 15-20 minute call covers where your program sits in that sequence, what your per-patient economics realistically look like, and what has to be true before you market it.
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Educational tool for licensed medical providers and practice owners. This calculator performs arithmetic on figures you supply; placeholder values are illustrative and are not benchmarks, quotes, or estimates for your market. Nothing here is financial, tax, legal, or medical advice, and no revenue, income, retention rate, or patient outcome is claimed or guaranteed. Compounded medications are not FDA-approved; product availability and the rules governing prescribing, telehealth, and supervision vary by state and change over time. Consult your own advisors and the applicable boards. Your figures are processed in your browser and are not transmitted to or stored by Eventide.