Editorial independence
The short version: nobody we cover pays us. No ads, no affiliate links, no sponsorships, no paid placement.
How this site is funded
As of July 2026, StudyBackedHealth carries no advertising, no affiliate links, and no
sponsorships, and accepts no payment, product, or perk from any company we cover.
The site is funded by its owner. Every outbound link to a provider is a plain link to that
provider's own website, marked rel="nofollow" so it passes no search-ranking
benefit and pays us nothing.
Where we came from
This site previously carried a small number of disclosed affiliate links, governed by a strict rule: every score was locked before anyone looked at what a provider might pay. In July 2026 we went further and removed the links entirely, committing to take no money from any provider we review for at least the next two years. The scoring process did not change; the last possible conflict of interest did. The record of commissions we declined even in the affiliate era is on what our independence costs us.
The rules that govern everything we publish
- No company can pay for a score, a ranking, a badge, or a mention, and none has.
- No sponsored rankings, paid placements, or "featured" slots, ever.
- No free products or services in exchange for coverage. We don't personally test medical products; our analysis is built from published research and aggregated consumer reviews.
- No provider previews, edits, or vetoes a review.
- Every score comes from the same public 31-point methodology, applied identically to every provider.
Unscored providers
Providers we haven't finished reviewing appear in an explicit "review in progress" state: no scores, no badges, no recommendation. We'd rather show you a real blank than a made-up number.
Questions
If anything about our funding or independence seems unclear or inconsistent with what you see on a page, contact us. We treat that as a correction-worthy issue and log it on our corrections page.