Options Medical Weight Loss

What Options Medical Weight Loss does

Options Medical Weight Loss is a privately held, for-profit healthcare company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, founded in 2014. The firm operates in the medical weight loss category, delivering physician-supervised weight management programs combined with prescription weight loss medications. Its service model is fundamentally clinical and consumer-facing, positioning the company between traditional physician practices and retail wellness providers by embedding medical supervision into weight loss treatment plans.

The company employs between 51 and 100 people, consistent with a multi-provider or multi-clinic operational footprint. Its offering blends medical consultation, supervised protocols, and pharmacotherapy — including the use of prescription weight loss drugs — which places the company in a category that has been reshaped by the emergence of GLP-1 receptor agonists. The clinical and regulatory infrastructure required to dispense prescription weight loss medications likely constitutes a meaningful operational moat relative to non-medical wellness competitors.

The business model appears to be direct-to-consumer clinical services revenue, with patients paying for physician consultations, supervised programs, and prescription medications. No public information on pricing, payer mix, franchise structure, or revenue composition was available. The company has no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or ownership structure, and operates without a mobile app or disclosed technology platform. The data underlying this assessment is thin: the company website was inaccessible at the time of source aggregation, and most enrichment fields returned empty.

Name

Options Medical Weight Loss

Website

https://optionsmedicalweightloss.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Options Medical Weight Loss is a privately held, St. Petersburg-based healthcare provider founded in 2014 that offers physician-supervised weight loss programs and prescription weight loss medications to direct-to-consumer patients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Weight Management

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (6211), All Other Outpatient Care Centers (621498), Diet and Weight Reducing Centers (812191)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Obesity Medicine & Weight Management (HLAKADAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Meal Planning & Prep Coaching (Macros, Grocery Guidance) (HSADAFAN), Weight Loss & Body Transformation Training (HSADAAAC)

Keywords

• Medical weight loss
• Physician-supervised weight loss
• Prescription weight loss medications
• Weight management programs
• Clinical weight loss services

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Petersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Core offering

Options Medical Weight Loss is a healthcare firm that delivers physician-supervised weight loss programs incorporating prescription weight loss medications. The company focuses on medically directed clinical weight management services for individuals seeking structured, doctor-monitored weight loss solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Physician-Supervised Weight Loss Programs Medically directed weight loss programs supervised by physicians, designed for individual consumers seeking structured clinical weight management support.
• Prescription Weight Loss Medications Prescription weight loss medications provided as part of physician-supervised weight loss treatment plans for individual patients.

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Noom: Digital weight management platform that has expanded into clinician-prescribed GLP-1 programs (Noom Med), increasingly competing with in-person medical weight loss clinics for the same prescription-driven patient.
• Found (Found Health): Digital weight care provider pairing clinician-prescribed medication with behavior change coaching; targets the same prescription-enabled weight loss patient via a virtual-first model.
• Ro: Telehealth provider with a dedicated weight loss program featuring physician-prescribed GLP-1s; competes with Options Medical Weight Loss on convenience and direct-to-door medication delivery.
• Calibrate: Telehealth metabolic health company combining clinician-prescribed GLP-1s with digital coaching; a digitally native alternative to in-person medical weight loss clinics.

Direct peers

• Medi-Weightloss: One of the largest physician-supervised medical weight loss clinic franchises in the US, offering prescription medications alongside customized programs — a near-identical operating model to Options Medical Weight Loss.
• Lindora: Multi-site clinical weight loss and metabolic health provider combining medical supervision with nutrition coaching; competes head-to-head for the same physician-supervised patient segment.
• Profile by Sanford Health: Health-system-affiliated medical weight management program delivering physician-supervised coaching and prescription support at in-person locations across multiple US markets.

Broad incumbents

• WW International (WeightWatchers): Long-standing incumbent in weight management that has launched its own clinician-prescribed weight loss program (WW Clinic), directly overlapping Options Medical Weight Loss's medical weight loss offering.
• Hims & Hers Health: Large consumer telehealth platform offering prescription weight loss treatments alongside other categories; a scaled disruptor threatening local clinic economics via home-delivered, online-prescribed care.

Regional players

• Valley Medical Weight Loss: Multi-location physician-supervised weight loss clinic chain operating primarily in the Western US; comparable physician-led clinic model and medication-inclusive program structure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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