Ozempic Prescription Requirements in Canada

• A prescription — no exceptions. Ozempic is prescription-only across Canada, online or at the counter. Any website offering to ship it without a clinician's review is operating outside the Canadian prescription system.
• Adult age. Felix states anyone 18 or older can use its service, and Hims Canada states the same 18 minimum (both verified 2026-08-14). Maple publishes no minimum age we could find; its membership covers dependants under 18, which is a different statement.
• A province a provider serves. Felix: Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island. Hims Canada: all ten provinces, with no territory named either way. Maple: every province and territory, though its Weight Medication Assessment specialty excludes Nova Scotia, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. (All verified 2026-08-14.)
• Identity documents. Providers verify who you are and where you live as part of intake. Which documents each one accepts is provider-specific and published on their own intake pages; we have not verified the accepted-document list for any provider here.
• Your intake information. Health history, a complete list of current medications, and height and weight — the inputs a clinician screens against the provider's published intake criteria.
• A way to pay for the visit, and separately for the medication. Felix charges $0 for the initial visit, plus $40 for every follow-up visit; Hims Canada publishes an online visit from $39, charged only if a clinician finds you eligible; Maple sells a $210 visit or a $95 monthly membership in Quebec, and an $85 monthly family membership in the rest of the country (all verified 2026-08-14). The medication is billed on its own — at Felix per pen, at a counter pharmacy at the pharmacy’s price, which is tracked at glp1prices.ca/drugs/ozempic.

Intake at the online providers is questionnaire-first: you answer a structured set of questions, and a clinician takes it from there — sometimes entirely asynchronously, sometimes over secure messages or a video call, depending on the provider.

• Identity and province of residence — this routes your file to a clinician licensed where you live
• Past and present health conditions, in your own words
• Every medication you currently take — prescription, over-the-counter, and supplements
• Height and weight, from which providers calculate body-mass index (BMI)
• Pharmacy and shipping preferences, where the provider dispenses
• Whether a reviewing clinician asks for any additional records is not something we have verified for any provider on this page

Declines happen at the review step: applications that fall outside the provider's published intake criteria are declined by the clinician, not filtered out by a form. Meeting every item on this page means you can start an online visit — it never promises a prescription, because the clinician's decision is the final one. What a decline costs differs by provider: Hims Canada states the visit fee is charged only if you are found eligible and that the card pre-authorisation is released on a denial, while Felix states it refunds the visit fee in this category only where a patient is found clinically ineligible. Its initial visit is $0, so a first application has no fee at risk; its $40 follow-up and renewal visits do, and Felix publishes no refund rule for a decline on one of those that is not a finding of clinical ineligibility (both verified 2026-08-14).

Prefer the whole journey in narrative form? Our sister site glp1prices.ca publishes a step-by-step walkthrough of the same path.

Prescribing authority in Canada is set provincially, and the family doctor is one route among several. What matters for the online path: physicians and nurse practitioners can both prescribe Ozempic, and both staff the major telehealth platforms.

Set on brand-name Ozempic specifically? Felix publishes prices for it per pen: $149 for one pen at 0.25mg, 0.5mg or 1mg, $298 for two 1.5mg pens, and $286 for two 2mg pens — the same ladder it prints for its generic, which is itself worth knowing. Felix states those prices are for patients in Ontario, do not account for insurance coverage, and reflect the cost after the Patient Support Program discount is applied. Hims Canada lists Ozempic in its medication lineup but publishes no price for it or for anything else, stating the estimated cost per refill is shown during the online visit, with a $12.99 fill fee charged on each refill. (All verified 2026-08-14.)

An Ozempic prescription is written for a set supply with a set number of refills. When the refills run out, the prescription is done — continuing requires a renewal from a prescriber, and a renewal is a clinical review, never automatic.

• Back to the original prescriber. Family physicians and NPs handle renewals as routine appointments.
• Through an online provider. A renewal application is reviewed the same way a first application is — against the provider's published intake criteria, by a licensed clinician. Details: renewals.
• At the pharmacy, where provincial rules allow. Ontario pharmacists may renew a non-controlled prescription for continuity of care, capped at the lesser of the original quantity or a twelve-month supply, and may not substitute a different drug; BC pharmacists may adapt a prescription written less than two years ago, including a therapeutic substitution within the same class, and PharmaCare pays them $10 for a renewal (both verified 2026-08-14, cited on our Ontario and British Columbia pages). Elsewhere we have not verified it, and the pharmacy counter can tell you what applies where you live.

Refills and transfers each have a page of their own: refills covers how dispensing schedules actually work, and transfers covers moving an active prescription between pharmacies or providers. If you already hold a prescription from elsewhere, transferring is often simpler than reapplying.