How much does LegitScript Healthcare Certification cost?
Certification is billed by LegitScript per website rather than per company, so what you pay is decided by how many domains you certify, whether you are certified on a probationary basis, and how many times you have to apply.
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What the bill is made of
LegitScript bills two separate things per website: a one-time application fee charged when you apply and never refunded, and an annual certification fee that begins when you are approved. Expedited processing and probationary status each carry their own charge, and LegitScript publishes the current amounts itself.
There are four lines, and only the first is unavoidable:
- The application fee. Charged per website when you apply, and not refunded whatever the reviewer decides.
- The annual certification fee. Charged per website, starting on approval. Nothing is due here until you are approved.
- Expedited processing. Optional, charged per application, and it buys queue position rather than a faster decision.
- Probationary Certification. Not something you choose. Where LegitScript certifies a merchant on that basis, the annual fee is higher because the monitoring is heavier.
We do not restate the amounts. A price copied onto a second website is accurate until the company that sets it changes its mind, and then it is a wrong number with our name on it. LegitScript publishes its own certification pricing, which is where the current figures are, and it is the citation worth having anyway.
Why the bill is per website, not per company
Certification attaches to a domain, not to a legal entity. LegitScript states that if you operate multiple healthcare websites, each website you want certified requires its own application and annual certification fee.
This is the single most expensive assumption merchants get wrong. A company running a main clinic site, a separate GLP-1 landing domain and a legacy brand it never retired is looking at three applications and three annual fees, not one.
Two consequences follow, and both are worth planning around before you apply:
- Retire what you do not need certified. A domain that only redirects to a certified site generally does not need its own certification. A domain that takes intake, presents prices or transacts does.
- Disclose everything regardless. Whether or not a domain is being certified, LegitScript expects to know about the domains you own. Omitting one is a far worse problem than paying for one.
The arithmetic is worth doing before you apply rather than after, because retiring or consolidating a domain is cheap while it is still a decision and expensive once it is part of a submitted application.
What a denial actually costs
A denial costs the full application fee, because it is nonrefundable regardless of outcome. Refiling means paying it again, so the cheapest application is the one that is right the first time.
The fee is the smaller half. The real cost of a denial is time: a refused application sends you back to the end of a queue you have already waited in, and whatever depends on certification (card processing, ad accounts, a launch date) stays blocked for the whole of the second wait as well as the first.
Priced that way, the expensive part of a certification is rarely the invoice. It is the weeks of revenue that do not happen while the file is being fixed and refiled.
That is also why preparation is where the money is saved. Most avoidable failures are claims problems on the website itself rather than anything structural about the business, and those are cheap to fix before submission and costly to fix after one.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I find the current LegitScript fees?
On LegitScript's own certification pricing page. We deliberately do not republish the amounts: a figure copied onto another site is only right until LegitScript changes it, and a stale price quoted confidently is worse than no price at all.
Is the LegitScript application fee refundable if I am denied?
No. LegitScript states the application fee is nonrefundable regardless of outcome. If you refile after a denial, the application fee is charged again.
Do I pay the annual fee before I am approved?
No. The annual certification fee becomes payable once your application is approved. Only the application fee is due up front.
Does one certification cover all of my domains?
No. LegitScript certifies websites. Each website you want certified requires its own application fee and its own annual certification fee.
What does expedited processing buy?
Expedited processing moves your application to the front of the intake queue so review STARTS within two business days of submission. It does not shorten the review itself, and LegitScript publishes no estimate for how long a review takes.