Hippocratic AI
by Hippocratic AI
Clinician-validated voice AI agents for non-diagnostic patient care calls
Hippocratic AI provides safety-focused generative-AI voice agents that make non-diagnostic, patient-facing calls for health systems, payors, pharma and medtech firms: intake and scheduling, post-discharge follow-up, chronic-care check-ins, screening outreach and trial enrollment. It is built for care-management and access leaders who need to reach far more patients than their nursing and outreach staff can call, with escalation to human clinicians when needed.
Hippocratic AI builds patient-facing generative-AI voice agents for healthcare providers, payors and life-sciences companies, deliberately confined to non-diagnostic work: its homepage states the agents do not diagnose or prescribe and are not used for hospice, mental-health disorders or children under two. The agents run on Polaris, a patented constellation architecture; Polaris 5.0, launched in April 2026, pairs a 700-billion-parameter core model with specialist support models in a 5-trillion-parameter constellation, plus custom clinical speech recognition and text-to-speech, and the company's August 2026 release cites 30+ supervising models. Hippocratic says the system has been tested by more than 7,700 U.S.-licensed clinicians across 775,000 test calls, its Polaris 5.0 release claimed 99.89% correct clinical guidance with zero severe-harm events, and it says production has passed 250 million patient interactions across 300+ live clinical use cases; those figures are self-reported. The catalogue spans more than 1,000 agents in 18 specialties for scheduling and intake, readmission prevention, chronic-care management, screening and vaccination outreach, and trial enrollment, plus cross-workflow products including AI Front Door, Nurse Co-Pilot, AI Call Supervisor and an AI Certified Agent Builder. In August 2026 it launched Agentic Orchestrators, teams of agents coordinated by a supervising intelligence around outcomes such as STAR ratings, readmissions and lost-to-follow-up recovery. Its November 2025 Series C raised $126 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing funding to $404 million; the company now cites $444 million raised. That announcement cited more than 50 health-system, payor and pharma clients in six countries, including Cleveland Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, Ochsner Health and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust. A January 2026 acquisition of Grove AI, a clinical-trial operations agent startup, seeded a dedicated Life Sciences Division. Unlike front-office call automation such as Hyro's, it targets clinical-adjacent outreach.
A VP of care management or population health at a health system or payor who needs far more patient outreach calls than nurse staffing allows.
Clinician-validated voice agents that run non-diagnostic follow-up and outreach calls at scale, escalating at-risk patients to human nurses.
At a Glance
- Category
- Industry & Government
- Pricing
- Usage-based, Contact for pricing
- Target Market
- Health system executives, Payor care-management leaders, CIOs, Pharma and medtech clinical operations
- Deployment
- Cloud-first
- Founded
- 2023
- Customers
- 50+ health systems, payors and pharma clients in 6 countries (Nov 2025)
Key Features
- ✓Polaris constellation architecture
A 700-billion-parameter core model works with specialist safety, clinical, speech and scheduling support models to raise medical accuracy on live calls.
- ✓Clinician-validated agent library
More than 1,000 prebuilt agents across 18 specialties, validated by 7,700+ U.S.-licensed clinicians on 775,000 test calls before deployment.
- ✓Human escalation and AI Call Supervisor
Agents escalate at-risk patients to human nurses, and AI Call Supervisor monitors calls for compliance issues and clinical errors; the vendor samples 0.5-1% of live calls for safety review.
- ✓Agentic Orchestrators
Launched August 2026, supervised teams of agents pursue outcomes such as STAR-rating gains, readmission prevention and trial enrollment instead of single tasks.
- ✓AI Certified Agent Builder
Customers design new agents and orchestrators with AI assistance, then put them through clinician certification and large-scale simulation before launch.
- ✓AI Front Door
An omni-topic access agent handling scheduling, registration, insurance verification, prescription renewal, transportation and billing questions across channels.
- ✓EMR integrations
The vendor lists 50+ EMR integrations including Epic, so call workflows connect to the record systems care teams already use.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Post-discharge follow-up
Agents place post-discharge check-in calls and escalate concerns to human nurses, supporting readmission-prevention programs at hospitals, health systems and payors.
- •Payor chronic-care management
Health plans extend chronic-care management and STAR-rating outreach to members their care managers cannot reach by phone, expanding outreach capacity.
- •Intake and pre-procedure preparation
Provider organizations automate patient intake and pre-procedure preparation calls, confirming patients understand their instructions before they arrive for care.
- •Clinical-trial screening and enrollment
Pharma and medtech sponsors use Life Sciences agents, expanded through the January 2026 Grove AI acquisition, to screen and enroll clinical-trial participants by phone.
- •Screening and vaccination campaigns
Population-health teams run outbound colorectal-screening and vaccination campaigns at scale, including Spanish-language outreach, to close care gaps across large patient panels.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Health systems running post-discharge and readmission-prevention call programs at scale
- ✓Payors extending chronic-care management and STAR-rating outreach to more members
- ✓Pharma and medtech sponsors automating clinical-trial screening, enrollment and patient-activation calls
- ✓Care-management teams short on nurse capacity for routine, non-diagnostic patient calls
Not Ideal For
- ✗Organizations wanting AI that diagnoses, prescribes, or handles mental-health, hospice or under-two pediatric care: the vendor explicitly excludes these
- ✗Practices whose main need is answering front-desk phones: a comparison published by competitor Interactly says Hippocratic is 'not that product' for that problem
- ✗Buyers wanting self-serve sign-up or fully published pricing: beyond an 'as low as $9/hour' Polaris Pro figure, terms are handled through sales
Deployment
Market & Ratings
50+ health systems, payors and pharma clients in 6 countries (Nov 2025)
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Unusually extensive published safety validation: 7,700+ U.S.-licensed clinicians and 775,000 test calls (vendor-reported)
- ✓Proven scale: 250M+ patient interactions and 50+ health-system, payor and pharma clients across six countries (vendor-reported)
- ✓Third-party security attestations: SOC 2 Type II report and a HITRUST CSF e1 validated assessment, plus HIPAA compliance
- ✓Well funded ($126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation) with backers including a16z, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and CapitalG
Cons
- ✗Organized nursing pushes back on AI in care: AP reported National Nurses United helped organize 20+ hospital demonstrations and warned the ecosystem is designed to 'de-skill and ultimately replace caregivers'
- ✗Its early pitch of AI agents at under $9/hour versus roughly $40/hour nurses fueled replacement fears (AP, New Atlas), and New Atlas flagged unresolved liability when an AI agent errs
- ✗Headline safety and outcome metrics (99.89% correct advice, zero severe harm) are self-reported, and no independent user ratings were found
- ✗Scope is deliberately narrow (no diagnosis, prescribing, hospice, mental-health disorders or children under two), so it complements rather than replaces clinicians
- ✗For AI-led trial screening, regulated sponsors must still validate traceability and keep humans responsible for enrollment decisions (Zamann Pharma Support)
Pricing
Polaris Pro
From $9/hour
- ✓Clinical, non-diagnostic voice AI
- ✓Patient-facing clinical conversations
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Agentic Orchestrators for provider, payor and life-sciences outcomes
- ✓AI Front Door, Nurse Co-Pilot and AI Call Supervisor
- ✓EMR integrations including Epic
- ✓Custom agents via AI Certified Agent Builder
Hippocratic AI's products page lists Polaris Pro, its clinical non-diagnostic voice agent, at 'as low as $9/hour'; no other list prices are published, so orchestrators, AI Front Door and enterprise deployments are quoted through sales. AP reported in March 2025 that the company had dropped earlier marketing comparing a $9-an-hour AI assistant with about $40 an hour for a registered nurse, and the third-party comparisons reviewed (Rasa, Interactly) found no public pricing.
Security & Compliance
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