Who pays us, what they score, and who beats them

The featured set, sorted by score

These 5 platforms are the ones our promotional surfaces can feature: the homepage cards, the affiliate strip and the sticky bar. 5 of them have approved partner programs for HRT Picks and matching tracking links. Our rankings, directories, tools and recommendations cover approved affiliate partners. Previously published research outside that shortlist remains at its original URLs. Approval determines inclusion; this table is sorted by the unchanged editorial scores.

Prices carry their own qualifier because they are not all the same kind of number. A per-visit figure is one consult with the prescription billed separately. An average is the provider's own published estimate rather than a rate we can hold them to. We publish the commission relationship and never the amount, because a payout figure would invite exactly the inference the editorial firewall exists to rule out.

Why Winona sits in the Top Pick slot

The featured-pick override is switched on. It pins Winona to the Top Pick slot on the promotional surfaces as a commercial decision, and it is disclosed here rather than buried in a footer. Winona scores 8.4/10 with a Transparency Grade B, which clears the floor a partner has to reach before it can be featured at all.

Approved partners outside the main shortlist

1 of our 6 approved partners are outside the main four-provider shortlist for each wing. A narrower category placement may still feature one when it meets that category’s criteria. They keep their row, their real price and their real score in the rankings. Listing them here is the point: a commission on its own buys nothing. The eligibility floors.

• Gala Health7.2/10, Grade C, $69/mo, women's hrt

The disclosure, in plain terms

• HRT Picks is an independently operated comparison site. We take no payment for a ranking, a score or a Transparency Grade.
• We earn a commission when a reader signs up through a link to one of the 6 platforms named above. The price you pay is the same either way.
• Partner CTAs carry tracking parameters and a sponsored link attribute. A platform that pays us nothing would get a link to our review of it instead of an outbound button, which is a commercial decision on our side and changes nothing about its score.
• The rankings table is sorted by score, descending, on every surface where it appears. A commission has never moved a provider up it and the recompute script would catch it if anyone tried.
• Red flags publish for partners too. When new evidence hurts a paying platform, the correction ships the same day.

The longer versions: editorial policy, affiliate disclosure, and how we choose what to feature. The full score-sorted rankings live on the women's wing homepage and at the men's TRT rankings.