What a clinic owner can and cannot plan up front
You can plan the structure: which SKUs drive volume, expected refill cadence, and the patient price points your market supports. What you cannot plan up front with Strive Pharmacy is the COGS number itself, because per-vial rates are not public. That gap matters most for high-volume GLP-1 programs, where a small per-vial difference multiplied across hundreds of monthly refills swings the bottom line. Before margin depends on it, ask pricing@strivepharmacy.com for written per-vial cost on your top three SKUs and confirm whether the rate is fixed or subject to renegotiation as volume grows.
Also clarify how ancillary costs hit the P&L. Patient complaints on public review channels have cited shipping charges around ten dollars on hormone scripts and opaque pricing tied to day-supply length rather than quantity alone. If shipping or handling are billed separately, the quoted drug rate understates true landed cost. Build your margin model on the all-in number per vial delivered, not the headline rate.