Group IV Pricing and Billing: How Event Bookings Are Quoted
Group IV pricing is simply the treatment menu applied to a group, plus the cost of bringing the clinic to you. There is no per-head event package that hides what each guest received, because every guest chooses their own drip and some choose nothing at all. What varies is who pays and how the total is settled: a host who wants one invoice at the end, a company that covers a base drip and lets guests upgrade, or a wedding party splitting it individually on the morning. All three are normal. This page explains how each one works, what a deposit does, and how the travel fee for an on-site visit is quoted. Call (831) 253-9537 with your date and headcount for a written quote.
The Menu Is the Starting Point
Group quotes are built from the same published prices an individual pays in Carmel. The Basic Boost, 1000 ml over about 40 minutes, is $160. The Myer's Cocktail for general wellness runs $175 to $195. Shark Attack, our one-liter recovery drip, is $200. The Big Sur Immune Booster is $300. On the performance side, the 17 Mile Performance Hydration is $310 for 500 ml or $380 for the full liter, and VIP Golfer Wellness, our 17 Mile Performance formula, is $450. Forever Young, the beauty drip, is $315, and NAD Body Refresh 250 mg is $350 over 90 minutes. Quick options matter for large groups: a Methylcobalamin B-12 Energy Boost is $35 and takes about ten minutes, and Lipo B is $50 in fifteen. For a mixed corporate group at Quail Lodge, that spread is the point. Some people want a full liter and a chair for forty minutes, most want the injection and to get back to the agenda.
Host-Paid: One Invoice, One Point of Contact
Host-paid is the cleanest arrangement for corporate and hospitality bookings. You nominate what the host covers, often a single drip tier or an injection for everyone, and we bill you once for what was actually administered. Guests do not see a price, do not hand over a card, and do not have a conversation about money in front of colleagues. That discretion is usually why an executive assistant or a brand-house manager chooses it in the first place. Two details make host-paid work. First, set a ceiling: the company covers The Basic Boost or a B-12 for anyone who wants one, upgrades are on the guest. That is a sentence we can administer at the chair without slowing the line. Second, expect the final invoice to differ from the estimate, because attendance always does. We quote a range on headcount and bill the reality, which for a Monterey Car Week suite is usually fewer full infusions and more injections than anyone predicts.
Guest-Paid and Split Billing
Guest-paid suits weddings, golf trips and friend groups where nobody wants to carry the whole bill. Each guest selects and pays for their own treatment on the day, exactly as they would in the Carmel or Salinas office. The organizer's only job is the booking itself and the guest list; the money never runs through them. Split arrangements are common too. A bride might cover Bridal Glow and a Forever Young for her attendants and let anyone else pay their own way. A tournament host might cover hydration for the field and let players buy the VIP Golfer upgrade themselves. A retreat organizer at Bernardus might fund the first morning and make the second optional. We can handle any of these, but the split needs to be settled in writing before the day, not negotiated at the chair while eleven people wait. Tell us where the line sits and we brief the team accordingly.
Deposits, Confirmations and Changes
An event booking reserves clinical staff and stock for a block of time, which is why group dates are held with a deposit rather than a phone call. The deposit confirms the date, the window and the staffing level, and it comes off the final bill. The amount and terms are set when we quote, because a two-hour hydration station for a wedding party and a three-day presence at a Laguna Seca paddock are not the same commitment. Cancellation and change terms are written into the same quote. In practice the changes that matter are headcount and timing, and both have room to move. A group that grows from twelve to eighteen usually needs a longer window rather than a different price structure. Tell us as early as you can and we adjust the staffing. What we cannot do is add capacity on the morning, so a late surge is served by extending the schedule, not by squeezing the infusions.
The Travel Fee, and Why It Is Quoted Not Listed
Every mobile visit carries a travel fee on top of the treatment prices. We do not publish a figure because it depends on the things that actually drive it: where you are, how long we hold staff on site, whether the station runs once or across several days, and how complicated the load-in is. A morning at a Carmel-by-the-Sea venue ten minutes from the clinic and a Big Sur location an hour down Highway 1 are not the same job. The fee is confirmed in writing when we quote your event, and it is a single line on the invoice rather than something distributed across guests. Nothing here goes through insurance, since Vivere is self-pay, so what you see in the quote is what you owe. If you are comparing options, send the date, address, headcount and the window you need covered, and you will get a real number rather than a range.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a price per head for a group booking?
No. Each guest is billed for the treatment they actually receive, from the same menu used in the Carmel office, from $35 for a B-12 injection up to $450 for VIP Golfer Wellness. A group quote sets the staffing, the window and the travel fee; it does not average guests together. That protects hosts from paying for full infusions that nobody took.
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