Telehealth IQ

What the Telehealth IQ does

The Telehealth IQ quiz is a 10-question multiple-choice test that checks how well you can read a women's telehealth or menopause-care offer before you sign up. Each question has one correct answer, and once you have answered all ten you get a score out of 10 plus a plain-language explanation of why each answer is right. It is a self-scored knowledge check, not an assessment of your health.

The questions cover the vocabulary and warning signs that decide whether a telehealth brand is worth your time: what the NAMS-CMP credential means, what a 503A compounding pharmacy is and is not, why transdermal estradiol carries lower clotting risk than oral estrogen, when a brand can legally say "FDA-approved," how state licensing follows the patient rather than the clinic, why hidden pricing revealed only after sign-up is a red flag, the limits of a single FSH blood test in perimenopause, how long vasomotor symptoms typically last, and why Medicare does not cover GLP-1 medications prescribed for weight loss. Answer them and you leave knowing the specific things to look for on a provider's page.

Nothing you enter is sent anywhere, saved, or used to profile you. The quiz runs entirely in your browser and holds only your ten answers until you reload the page.

How to read your result

Your score is simply the count of questions you got right, from 0 to 10. The tool sorts that into three bands with fixed cutoffs: 8 or more reads as "telehealth literate," 5 to 7 as "building knowledge, review the rationales," and 4 or fewer as "plenty to learn." These bands are encouragement, not a grade that means anything outside the quiz.

The real value is in the explanations, which only appear after you submit. Each answered question expands to show which option was correct and a one- or two-sentence reason. Reading the reasons for the questions you missed is the point of the exercise. A wrong answer here is a concrete gap in what you would have checked on a provider's website.

Treat the score as a prompt for what to verify, not a verdict. If you missed the licensing question, check which states a brand's clinicians are licensed in relative to where you live. If you missed the pricing red-flag question, look for a published price before you create an account. The quiz points at questions to ask a prescriber or a provider's support team; it does not answer your personal medical questions.

What the result is based on

Everything the quiz reports comes from a fixed list of ten questions written into the page, each with one pre-marked correct answer and a short rationale. There is no model, no algorithm, no dataset, and no personalization. Your score is a straight tally of answers that match the marked-correct option, and the three result messages are chosen by two hardcoded thresholds (8 and 5).

The content reflects general facts about how women's telehealth and menopause care is regulated and delivered, framed as things worth verifying rather than settled clinical advice. One question cites the SWAN study's finding that vasomotor symptoms lasted a median of roughly 7.4 years; that figure comes from the quiz's own rationale text, not from anything about you.

Because the answer key is fixed, the quiz measures your familiarity with the concepts its author chose to include. It does not adapt to your answers, weight questions differently, or draw on live regulatory or pricing data.

What it cannot tell you

• It is a fixed 10-question set with one author-chosen correct answer each. It does not adapt, and getting a high score means you know these ten points, not that you have evaluated any specific provider.
• It tests general knowledge, not the offer in front of you. It will not tell you whether a particular brand is licensed in your state, who its clinicians are, or what it charges. You have to check those on the provider's own page.
• Regulation, credentials, and coverage rules change over time and vary by state and plan. The Medicare, state-licensing, and FDA answers describe general rules as of the quiz's authoring and can go out of date or have exceptions.
• It contains no medical advice about your body. Nothing here diagnoses menopause, judges whether HRT or a GLP-1 medication is right for you, or interprets your lab results. The FSH question exists to explain why a single number can mislead.
• The score bands (8+, 5-7, 4 or fewer) are arbitrary encouragement cutoffs set in the code, not a validated measure of anything. A 7 and an 8 are one question apart.
• It cannot see your answers or score after you close or reload the page. There is no account, history, or record kept.