LegitScript Certification

What is LegitScript Certification?

To check or verify a company’s LegitScript certification, look it up in LegitScript’s public certification directory rather than trusting a badge on the advertiser’s own site.

How to check or verify a LegitScript certification

1. Search the public lookup. Go to legitscript.com and use its certification lookup (the public verification directory), searching by the business name or, more reliably, the exact website domain.
2. Confirm the certification is active. Look for a current “Certified” status and check the listed expiration or renewal date. LegitScript certification is renewed annually, so an expired, suspended, or “no longer certified” result means it is not currently valid.
3. Match the certified domain to the real landing page. LegitScript certifies a specific website URL and legal business entity, so confirm the certified domain and business name match the advertiser’s actual landing page and checkout, not a parent brand, a reseller, or a look-alike domain.
4. Check that the badge links back to LegitScript. A legitimate seal on a provider’s site should link to that provider’s own verification page on legitscript.com. A static badge image that links nowhere is not proof of anything.

This matters because ad platforms verify against LegitScript’s records, not the badge on a page: if the certified entity or domain does not match the account and landing page running the ads, the ads can still be rejected even when a certificate technically exists somewhere.

What it costs and when to get it

LegitScript is the healthcare-merchant certification Google and Meta require before a telehealth or pharmacy advertiser can promote prescription services, and it sits upstream of everything else: on Google it is step one, followed by Google’s own prescription drug services certification for the ad account. Sequence it into launch math. A GLP-1 telehealth brand that files during account build absorbs the 4–8 week review inside its launch timeline, while one that runs ads first typically meets a disabled account on day one and a harder appeal, because the account now carries a violation history. Budget it as a fixed cost of the channel (roughly a $975 application fee plus ~$2,150/year per website; exact fees vary, see LegitScript’s published fee schedule) rather than an optional compliance extra.

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