No is a valid answer
Your visit can end with a physician declining to prescribe, and that outcome is legitimate and complete. Medical care depends on that option; a checkout page never offers it.
Our company
Online care, with people behind it.
We put our effort into what a checkout page cannot do for you: a physician's careful review, a licensed pharmacy that fills your prescription correctly and a real person who answers when something goes wrong.
Why we exist
A long drive or a packed calendar should not keep you from care.
Needing treatment and actually starting it are often far apart. The medicine usually exists; getting to it is the hard part. Referrals, long waits and time away from work can make a manageable problem seem not worth the trouble.
Peoples First Rx shortens the route without removing the safeguard. A physician reviews the complete picture of your health that you provide, gives you an honest assessment and prescribes only when treatment is warranted. Any prescription then goes to Rush Pharmacy, which holds a state license, for dispensing and shipping to your door.
Our job is the telemedicine platform that brings those steps together. Pharmacies dispense medicine and medical practices treat patients; we are neither. Independent physicians licensed in your state make the clinical decisions, and Rush Pharmacy handles dispensing. Those roles stay separate by design, and that separation is what lets you trust the model.
Our standards
Six rules we run the service by.
Clear wording
In words you can act on, we tell you which uses a medicine is approved for, which it is not, whether it is compounded and how far the evidence goes.
Know the cost first
You see every cost before paying. There is no membership to join, and every order is a one-time purchase.
Humans read messages
Each message lands with a person, not an autoresponder, and anything clinical goes to the clinical team to answer.
Private parcels
Plain outer packaging and tracking come standard on every order, with no need to ask.
Help after it arrives
Once your order arrives you can still reach your physician about questions or side effects, and that follow-up is part of the treatment, never an add-on we sell.
Your physicians
Licensed for your state, free to use their judgment.
Each physician reviewing intakes is board-certified and part of the LocumTele network. Yours will be licensed in your state, and that license will be active and unrestricted. They go through your answers personally and are clinically responsible for anything they prescribe. Most reviews are done within one business day, and a physician is the only person who can write a prescription here.
A physician who declines to prescribe for you is never overruled by us. We also set no prescribing quotas, and we pay no physician per prescription.
Your prescription reaches Rush Pharmacy through Remedora Inc., our pharmacy and fulfillment partner. Rush Pharmacy is state-licensed. It dispenses and ships your medicine, and your label and paperwork name it as the pharmacy that filled your order. Every medication, compounded preparations included, is prepared in a licensed facility whose work meets state and federal standards or goes beyond them.
- Who prescribes
- A physician, always
- Licensure
- Confirmed by state
- Insurance
- Never required
Named partners
Three partners, each with a clear role.
Three companies share the work behind your care, and you should be able to see each of them. Your physician is a member of the LocumTele network. Across the 49 states we serve, its physicians are board-certified and licensed to practice telemedicine. Clinical and compliance infrastructure for every visit comes from LocumTele as well. Your medicine comes from Rush Pharmacy. It is state-licensed, and every prescription written through Peoples First Rx is dispensed there and shipped to you. Both companies work with Remedora Inc., which serves as our pharmacy and fulfillment partner under the partnership agreement we have with it.
Which physician network stands behind the clinical decision on your case, and which pharmacy stands behind the medicine that reaches you? You are entitled to both answers. Many telemedicine brands never give them; we give you both names.
Each prescribing decision is the physician's own. LocumTele physicians are independent practitioners; we do not steer their decisions, and we never pay one of them for writing a prescription. Rush Pharmacy carries out its own independent review of each prescription and may refuse to fill it.
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The physicians
All board-certified, all trained in the conditions we treat, with licensure for telemedicine practice in every state on our list.
LocumTele -
Checks and oversight
Verifying licenses, providing medical oversight and handling regulatory compliance across states.
LocumTele -
Intake and e-prescribing
The intake tools, plus secure electronic prescribing that carries each prescription from the physician to the dispensing pharmacy without it ever passing through Peoples First Rx.
LocumTele -
Partnership and routing
As our pharmacy and fulfillment partner, it is the company our partnership agreement is with. Every prescription passes through it on the way to Rush Pharmacy.
Remedora Inc. -
Dispensing and shipping
Holds a state pharmacy license. Each prescription gets a pharmacist's check and a tamper-evident seal before it ships, tracked and in plain packaging.
Rush Pharmacy -
Health privacy
Signed business associate agreements cover your protected health information, backed by administrative, physical and technical safeguards.
LocumTele/Remedora
Why "state-licensed" matters to you. Rush Pharmacy, the pharmacy that dispenses your prescription, holds a license from its state board of pharmacy. Its pharmacists check every order, and its name is printed on your prescription label, so you can always tell who filled it.
Business details
- Doing business as
- Peoples First Rx
- Legal entity
- Pursuance Shore LLC
- Registered address
- 6034 W Placer Claim Way
West Jordan, UT 84081 - Operating in
- 49 states
- Certification
Begin at your own pace.
A licensed physician reads your whole intake, and filling it in online takes only a few minutes.
