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Membership
Work with our world class doctors and dietitians online in the most comprehensive functional medicine membership ever.
Due to our small personalized practice size, spots may be limited.
Treatment Areas
We treat all these issues at the root cause.
Online Functional Medicine Membership
The Root Difference
12 Months of Root’s proven process for health optimization and root cause treatment.
What's Included
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Keep functional medicine experts in your back pocket.
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We meet you where ever you’re at. Online visits with certified functional medicine MDs/DOs and expert functional dietitian nutritionists over the course of a year.
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Data you can’t get anywhere else to drive decisions and personalize your plan. Order your labs with ease and save up to 90% off of conventional prices with access to our discounted lab pricing.
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A clear plan to address your root causes, third-party tested supplement recommendations, nutrition recommendations, tips for stress and sleep, and realistic and achievable goal setting.
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Support with messaging, community, meal plans, and online courses.
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Our dietitians can help with interpretation and planning based on your continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. Our doctors help with innovative hormone monitoring kits.
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Members only webinars and group discussion with our doctors and dietitians.
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Pay Annually
Save $325. That’s a month free!
$3875/year
Minimum 1 year commitment.
Pay Monthly
$350/month
Minimum 1 year commitment.
HSA / FSA eligible.
See our FAQs for cancellation policy.
The Impact
98% Reported Improvements
Our members reported symptom improvements over the course of their membership.
Overall symptom score improvement across these 6 categories
Skin Health
Aches & Pain
Digestive
Mood
Energy
Metabolism
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Expert Led Holistic Care
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Transparent Pricing
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Board certified MDs/DOs
Advanced training in functional medicine -
Dietitian Included
Food as medicine approach -
Access to advanced testing
With in-depth functional medicine interpretation -
Support
Meal plans, Educational courses, and Community -
Personalized Membership
Small number of members per each doctor/dietitian -
Up to 1 hour visits
5x longer than the average doctor visit -
We’re all rooting for you
Team that works together to review cases within team of experts
Conventional
*Sometimes due to availability and program offering
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Transparent Pricing
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Board certified MDs/DOs
Advanced training in functional medicine -
Dietitian Included
Food as medicine approach -
Access to advanced testing
With in-depth functional medicine interpretation -
Support
Meal plans, Educational courses, and Community -
Personalized Membership
Small number of members per each doctor/dietitian -
Up to 1 hour Visits
5x longer than the average doctor visit -
Support
Team that works together to review cases within team of experts
Others
*Sometimes due to availability and program offering
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Transparent Pricing
-
Board certified MDs/DOs
Advanced training in functional medicine -
Dietitian Included
Food as medicine approach -
Access to advanced testing
With in-depth functional medicine interpretation -
Support
Meal plans, Educational courses, and Community -
Personalized Membership
Small number of members per each doctor/dietitian -
Up to 1 hour Visits
5x longer than the average doctor visit -
Support
Team that works together to review cases within team of experts
Availability
Membership FAQ
All other labs are available at additional, transparent, lower pricing than insurance-based labs. A perk of being insurance-free is the availability of lower transparent pricing and NO surprise bills. Can you remember a time when you thought insurance was paying for testing, but instead you received a bill for thousands of dollars? That does not happen at Root.
Advanced Functional Testing like gut microbiome, hormones, cortisol, mold, toxins, food sensitivity, breath testing, and much more are also available at direct transparent prices. Your doctor and dietitian team will be there for you to sort through the noise of what would actually be helpful in YOUR unique case and they will help you interpret those results and use the data to put a plan in action. No more wasted time/money on tests that don't mean anything for you! Instead, you'll gain insights about your body from data you've never had access to before and a plan using that data.
Being to multiple practitioners and "trying everything before" is the rule rather than the exception when people sign up as new members. While it's definitely not a requirement to try different treatments before joining Root, nearly everyone tells us this before signing up. Yet we still help them. Why?
- We use advanced testing that you likely have not had access to before.
- Our Functional Medicine MD/DOs interpret that testing for you. Read why this is a game changer here.
- The Root approach means assessing you as a whole person with one connected mind and body. We've refined and measured our approach over the past 5+ years.
- You have multiple experts rooting for you - a doctor and a dietitian. Plus, we collaborate weekly and discuss any challenging cases amongst our team of experts.
- The ongoing membership gives you the time and space to heal, and support like you've never experienced before.
Our doctors and dietitians are truly invested in seeing your success. Having a nutrition expert on your team is key to our success together.
To cancel your Root membership before your renewal, contact Root at info@rootfunctionalmedicine.com and give 30 days notice. Any charges that are pending in that 30 days will go through, and you will have access to Root services for the 30 days from the date of your notice.
All memberships and payments are not refundable.
Cost Breakdown of Root Membership Program:
Intake visit with Functional Medicine MD/DO: $750
Each additional MD/DO visit: $500
Dietitian visit: $250 each
Portal direct messaging access to your team (not a triage team): $80/month x 12 months = $950
Access to Root Platform (Courses, Community, Meal Plans, Members Only Webinars) $450
In order to secure the time and space and a limited number of members per doctor, we need to continue to be a membership practice in order to give the highest level of attention to each person.
Full transparency: The bottom line is that a pay per visit model leads to shorter, more expensive visits, little to no support in between (which is when the magic happens - 90% of health occurs outside the visit), and therefore less likely for a successful result. We're a membership model because we care about results, and we care about helping you succeed.
We also do not give receipts for insurance, because insurance does not pay for memberships (part of what you are paying in your program cost at Root is the ability to be in a small practice where the doctors and dietitians have time outside your visits to review your case) and we include labs through direct prices. Direct lab pricing by definition is not reimbursable by insurance. Transparency and authenticity are one of our core values, and we don't believe in just getting you in the door with the false premise that any of it may be covered by insurance, because, in our experience it usually isn't! We'd much rather give you the important aspects of finding the root cause right in your transparent program cost, saving members thousands of dollars in unexpected bills.
You can read more about why we are insurance-free here.
All visits with your functional medicine doctor and dietitian nutritionists are done via Telehealth. Most people will follow the outline linked above, but if you need additional visits, these are included at no cost. We want to meet you where you are! Seeing you in your home, workplace, travel not only keeps you on track through the year, it offers a glimpse into your true lifestyle that we are trying to optimize. Go ahead, show us your pantry!
Labs are available at transparent pricing which saves about 90% of the cost as having it done in conventional medicine, aka through insurance or with your PCP. We do not bill insurance for labs because nearly every time, our prices are drastically lower than they would be if using insurance for labs. This access to our direct pricing is a benefit of a Root membership.
Supplements are offered at a 20% discount for members, either through Root or through an online dispensary. You are never required to purchase Root supplements, but we offer them because we trust them and have seen clinical results from them for 5+ years. Root supplements are purity tested, stored in a temperature controlled facility and ship quickly.
Other benefits of your Root membership are found immediately upon sign up in our community with member support, digital meal plans, online course and video materials to help you on your journey to a functional medicine lifestyle.
Treatment FAQ
Root doctors are functional medicine specialists and not available for same day or acute issues that would better be handled in Urgent Care or with PCP, like UTIs, acute viruses or infections, etc. We cannot replace primary care and are not able to do routine physicals and other insurance based orders like mammograms, etc.
We do not prescribe controlled substances such as narcotics or certain classes of anxiety or ADHD medications. Our membership would target these concerns naturally and can be a complement to other care for these conditions that you currently have in place.
Our Dietitian Nutritionists have masters level nutrition training and additional advanced training and experience in functional nutrition.