About PPARx

What PPARx actually is

PPARx is a privately owned informational website. We publish reference articles about three things:

1. How prescription costs and patient-assistance programs work.
2. Online (telehealth) prescription services — what they do, where they’re licensed, and how they compare.
3. Background explainers on conditions and medications people frequently search for, written in plain language without the marketing scaffolding.

That’s the whole scope. We are not a clinic. We do not have prescribers. We do not enroll people in programs or process applications. If a page on this site implies otherwise, that page is wrong and we want to know — please tell us.

What PPARx is not

The site’s name has caused confusion, so we want to be direct about it. PPARx is not affiliated with the U.S. government, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Health and Human Services, or any pharmaceutical manufacturer. No part of this site is a government service. No part of this site is medical advice.

For the actual federal-level prescription-assistance directory, the canonical starting points are medicineassistancetool.org (run by PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry’s trade association) and benefitscheckup.org (run by the National Council on Aging).

How we work

PPARx is a small editorial operation. Our articles are written by a small team and edited for clarity and accuracy before publishing. When we make a substantive change to a previously published article, we update the modified date.

Every article we publish goes through the same checklist:

• Sourced. Claims that depend on a fact (a price, an FDA approval, a study finding, a regulation) link to a primary source.
• Plain. We don’t write to please an algorithm. We try to make the page useful to a person reading it once.
• Honest about what we don’t know. Where the evidence is mixed or limited, we say so. We don’t paper over uncertainty to make a page feel more authoritative.
• No medical advice. Articles are general information. Treatment decisions belong with you and a clinician — not with us.

How we make money

Two ways:

1. Display advertising placed by third-party ad networks.
2. Affiliate links — when an article reviews a service (commonly telehealth platforms), we sometimes earn a commission if a reader signs up. The presence of an affiliate relationship doesn’t change whether we recommend a service. We review services we don’t have affiliate relationships with and we publish criticisms of services we do.

For the formal version, see our Disclaimer.

What we cover

If you came here looking for something specific, the main places to start are:

• Prescription Assistance Programs — what they are, who runs them, who qualifies, and what to expect.
• Articles — the running collection of explainers and reviews.
• Online TRT and men’s-health telehealth — covered through individual clinic write-ups; start with Best Online TRT Clinics for the comparative overview.

Talking to us

Email is the way: [email protected]. We read every message, including corrections, suggestions, and “you got this wrong.” We don’t have a phone line, a chat widget, or a clinical-question intake — see Contact for details.

Mailing address

201 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, United States.