On 84k monthly visits the audience is niche rather than mass, which usually means relevance beats reach: fewer readers, but the sort who might act.
Health is a YMYL category, which means the page that hosts your link is judged on the same standards as the content on it. Editors working in this space ask for named authors, professional affiliation and a citation list because their own pages can be demoted for thin or unsourced advice. A contribution with no qualified byline is the most common rejection we see.
Within the Health section of the index — 37 listings, 54 median DA, 4.9k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and about 15.3× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $40 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.
Where a site in this group carries 84k visits a month, expect the editorial desk to check whether your brand has any existing footprint: review profile, registration with the relevant professional body, a physical address. Those checks protect their own standing, and passing them quietly strengthens yours.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 34 DA and 84k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.