How Do You Verify a LegitScript Certification?

What should the LegitScript seal show when you click it?

The LegitScript seal is a live link, not proof on its own. LegitScript's seal FAQ says a correctly installed seal shows a hover message, and that clicking it brings you to the LegitScript Certification Status page for that website. The install code is an image served from static.legitscript.com with an ID number issued to the certified business, linked to the site's validation page on LegitScript.com. LegitScript also says displaying the seal is encouraged but optional, so a certified site may show none.

LegitScript's September 17, 2026 article on the seal says a seal on a website is not, by itself, enough to confirm that a business is currently certified, because status can change, sometimes quickly. Its warning signs are a seal shown by a business that was never certified, a seal kept up after certification was lost, "Legit Script" written as two words, and colors, fonts or image quality that don't match the official seal. Its advice is to go straight to the database, which it says reflects real-time status. MedScale's launch checklist puts the seal in the footer of every page an ad can land on once a brand is certified, so a reviewer who clicks it reaches a live status page.

How do you check a partner pharmacy's LegitScript certification?

Partner checks use the same lookup. LegitScript's Healthcare Application Checklist says all partner pharmacies, meaning the pharmacies an applicant uses to fill and dispense prescriptions for its patients, must be certified through LegitScript or accredited by NABP. The checklist asks applicants whether they have looked up each partner pharmacy's status and found it "Certified" or "Legitimate". If the answer is yes, LegitScript wants evidence of the partnership; if not, the pharmacy has to be ready to apply for its own certification.

Partners that aren't certified must submit their own application within sixty days after the applicant is certified, and LegitScript says the outcome of their review may affect the applicant's certification while the partnership is active. The same checklist says that when a platform promotes or links to a third-party provider or provider group to perform telehealth, the promoted URL must be certified too. A brand built on a white-label telehealth platform therefore checks the platform's domain and its own. MedScale's readiness review checks pharmacy partners against LegitScript's published standards before anything is filed.

What happens to Meta and Google ads when a LegitScript certification lapses?

Meta ties prescription drug authorization to active certification. Its help page on the prescription drugs policy says that to keep authorization you must maintain an active LegitScript certification, and that if Meta determines you no longer have one, your authorization may be revoked. The same page says that when a business applies, a URL that is not certified or not in good standing with LegitScript cannot move to the next step.

Google's United States rules allow telemedicine providers accredited by LegitScript's Healthcare Merchant Certification Program, and online pharmacies accredited by LegitScript or NABP, and require them to be certified with Google as well. A lapse removes the accreditation that the Google certification rests on. LegitScript's renewal article says that without an up-to-date certification the seal will no longer be active, and that a business whose certification lapses needs a new application, with its fees, to be certified again. MedScale keeps renewal dates on a calendar for the brands it certifies, because a lapse puts the platform authorizations at risk.

How does MedScale handle LegitScript verification for a telehealth brand?

MedScale Health runs LegitScript certification as a service: a readiness review of licenses by state, prescriber credentials, pharmacy partners, marketing claims and the privacy policy against LegitScript's published standards; the fixes; the filing and the answers to LegitScript's questions; then Meta's authorization and Google's healthcare certification on the certified domain. LegitScript decides, and no agency can guarantee certification. Until certification and platform authorization are both live, campaigns run on what each platform allows without them, and campaigns are live by Day 14 from access when certifications are in place. Book the free growth audit at medscale.health/audit for a written plan.