In a MedStands referral program, licensed providers do the prescribing and licensed pharmacies do the fulfillment, refills, and shipping. The business or affiliate who makes the referral never touches medication, never handles clinical decisions, and never manages a supply chain. Your only role is sharing a QR code or personal link. Everything on the medical side happens inside a LegitScript-certified telehealth platform, and MedStands is not a medical practice and does not prescribe.
That separation is the whole point of the model. You get to point people toward care and earn for it, while the parts that require a license, a pharmacy, and clinical accountability stay with the professionals who are qualified to handle them. Here is exactly who does what.
Licensed providers handle the prescribing
When someone signs up through your QR code or link, they complete an intake with the telehealth platform. From there, a licensed provider reviews their information and decides whether a treatment is appropriate. Every request is reviewed by a licensed provider, and not everyone qualifies. That review is a clinical judgment, and it is made entirely by the provider.
This is important for two reasons. First, it keeps the medical decision where it belongs. You are not diagnosing anyone, recommending a medication, or promising an outcome. Second, it protects you. Because you never make a clinical claim or influence who gets treated, you stay firmly on the marketing side of the relationship. Your job starts and ends with the introduction.
Licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping
Once a provider prescribes, a licensed pharmacy takes over. The pharmacy fills the order, ships it directly to the patient, and handles refills going forward. There is no inventory sitting in your back room, no cold storage to manage, no shipments to pack, and no medication passing through your hands at any point.
For a business, this removes the single biggest barrier to entering the weight-management space. You do not need a pharmacy license, a wholesale account, or a compliance team to manage controlled products. The pharmacy already has all of that. If you want a deeper look at why this matters, see Do I Need Inventory or a Pharmacy to Offer GLP-1 Referrals?.
Your only job is the referral
Here is the full extent of what you do as a partner or affiliate: you share a QR code or a personal link. People who sign up through it are attributed to you, and that attribution is tracked so you get credited for the people you send. There is no clinical work, no inventory, no prescribing, and no fulfillment on your end.
Because the medical and pharmacy work is fully handled elsewhere, adding this to your business does not turn you into a clinic. You are referring people to licensed care, not delivering it. If you want to understand where that line sits legally and operationally, How to Offer Weight-Loss Treatments Without Becoming a Medical Practice walks through it.
How you get paid for the referral
You earn a fixed marketing fee for each active referred customer, paid to your bank every month for as long as that person keeps actively using the platform. It is set in advance, it is not tied to what any single order is worth, and it is not a commission, a cut, or a percentage of sales. It is a flat marketing fee for the referral.
That structure keeps things clean. You are paid for marketing, which is what you actually do, and the fee is the same regardless of the clinical outcome, which you neither control nor need to know about. This model works across a wide range of businesses, and you can browse partner programs by industry to see how it fits different types of practices and storefronts.
Common questions
Does it cost anything to offer referrals?
No. It is free to join, with $0 to join, no setup fee, no monthly fee, and nothing to buy. You are not stocking a product or funding an inventory line, so there is nothing to pay for up front.
Do I have to do any clinical or pharmacy work?
None at all. There is no clinical work, no inventory, no prescribing, and no fulfillment on your side. Licensed providers handle the prescribing and licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping. You share a link and that is the extent of your role.
Who decides whether someone gets a prescription?
A licensed provider does, based on the person's intake. Every request is reviewed by a licensed provider, and not everyone qualifies. You cannot influence that decision, and you are never expected to. MedStands is not a medical practice and does not prescribe.
Will this create extra work for my staff?
Very little. Because the referral is just a QR code or link, there is no order to process or product to hand off. For a fuller answer, see Will Telehealth Referrals Create Extra Work for My Staff?.
Getting started
If the clean division of labor is what appeals to you, that is exactly what the model is built around. Licensed providers and pharmacies own the medicine, and you own the introduction. To see how the referral, the attribution, and the monthly marketing fee fit together for your business, visit the MedStands partner program and start with a simple QR code.