Affinity Direct Goes Nationwide

Affinity Whole Health opened its first clinic in 2012. For most of the decade that followed, if you wanted to be our patient, you drove to Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, or Chicago. When we brought that practice online as Affinity Direct, we could only serve the states our own providers were licensed in — five of them.

That limit is gone. Between our own clinic network and a licensed partner provider network, Affinity Direct treatment is now available to patients in every state in the country.

What is available where

Coverage is not one blanket number, and we would rather show the real shape of it than round it off. Here is every line we offer and who prescribes it:

If you want the plain state-by-state version of this, we keep it current on our availability page. Your eligibility is confirmed during intake either way, based on the state you live in and the treatment you are asking for.

Why it took as long as it did

Telehealth companies expand at very different speeds, and the reason is usually not technology. Every state licenses providers separately and writes its own rules about what a clinician may prescribe after an online visit. Adding a state is not a settings change — it is licensure, and it is compliance review, and it is somebody being accountable for the care delivered there.

We do not enter a state until there is a fully licensed provider and a compliant process behind it. That is why the partner network matters as much as our own clinic licensure — it is how a patient in a state our clinicians are not licensed in still gets a clinician who is, rather than a form and a shrug.

What did not change

A licensed provider still reviews every prescription. Nothing here is dispensed on a questionnaire alone. A provider reads your intake, typically within 24 hours, and can decline treatment when it is not clinically appropriate. If they decline, you are refunded in full.

Pricing is still published. No mandatory membership, no consultation fee bolted on at checkout, and no subscription requirement — you can order one time, as needed. GLP-1 weight loss starts at $96.05/mo, effective on the 3-month plan with auto-refill — Subscribe & Save, 15% off, cancel anytime. Shipping is free, 2-day, and discreet on every order.

We are still a clinic. Four physical locations, more than 10,000 patients treated since 2012, a 4.9 average patient rating, and the same organization standing behind the online visit as the in-person one. You can read about the clinical team or come see us — the clinic addresses are public.

The people behind Affinity Direct

A fair question to ask any online health company is who is actually running it. A lot of them will not tell you. We are a small group, and we are not hard to find:

• Brian Zeid
• Jerry Sloan
• Zach Buehner
• Jack Zeid

That is the group that built and runs Affinity Direct — in addition to a team of 30+ other great employees, and the Affinity Whole Health clinical staff who see patients every day. The clinical decisions belong to the licensed providers — the physicians and nurse practitioners whose names and credentials are on the provider page. Nobody on this list writes your prescription.

If something about your order is wrong, there is a real person on the other end of the contact page. That is easier to promise at our size than at a company with a call center, and it is one of the genuine advantages of staying small enough to know our patients.

What is next

Two directions. The first is depth — continuing to extend our own providers' licensure so more states are served by the Affinity clinic network directly rather than through partners. The second is more treatments: hair loss, skin health, and women's health are in development, and each will launch the same way, when there is a licensed provider and a compliant process behind it and not before.

In the meantime, if you have been waiting because your state was not on the list — it is now. Here is how the visit works.

Common questions

This article is written and reviewed by the Affinity Direct clinical team for informational purposes. It does not constitute medical advice. All prescriptions require a provider evaluation and are issued only when clinically appropriate. Last reviewed: August 2026.