98point6 is the virtual care platform to help health systems meet their digital care needs now and in the future. Our pioneering platform is built around providers, powered by almost 10 years of learnings gathered from millions of patient and provider interactions. Focused on enabling frictionless delivery across modalities of care, the 98point6 virtual care platform includes asynchronous and real-time capabilities. 98point6 provides technology and tools to automate administrative work and allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

Our pioneering platform is built around providers, powered by almost 10 years of learnings gathered from millions of patient and provider interactions. Focused on enabling frictionless delivery across modalities of care, the 98point6 virtual care platform includes asynchronous and real-time capabilities. 98point6 provides technology and tools to automate administrative work and allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

The only evidence-based, explainable AI triage built on gold-standard clinical protocols trusted by every major health system.

Clearstep identifies the safest, most appropriate next step and routes patients directly into bookable care, based on real-time system capacity, eligibility, provider preferences, hours, distance, insurance rules, and more.

Why Clearstep is Chosen:

• Reduces unnecessary ED/urgent volume by 40–70%
• Lowers clinical risk with transparent, guideline-aligned logic
• Eliminates friction by accelerating time-to-right-care
• Aligns patients to your care pathways, not generic recommendations
• Most academically validated + widely deployed triage AI (2024 & 2025 NPJ Digital Medicine)

Solves: cost-efficient 24/7 patient access + support, inappropriate utilization, long waits, siloed triage tools, outdated decision trees.

Clearstep is the most widely implemented agentic AI platform for patient access and capacity optimization in U.S. health systems. Built on Dr. Barton Schmitt’s nationally trusted clinical triage protocols, Clearstep delivers >95% accuracy, transparent and explainable decisioning, and the strongest clinical rigor of any AI-powered triage or navigation solution on the market.

Clearstep partners with leading health systems—including HCA Healthcare, Ochsner Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Novant Health, Tufts Medicine, and Baylor Scott & White—to solve their most urgent access and operations challenges: misrouted care, overwhelmed call centers, fragmented digital entry points, and underused provider and facility capacity.

Through its Smart Care Routing™ platform, Clearstep removes the friction, waste, and variability that keep patients from reaching the right care and keep health systems from using their resources effectively.

By powering every digital and phone front door with AI agents that triage, navigate, schedule, intake, and support call center workflows, Clearstep delivers a seamless, guided patient experience—while unlocking millions in operational efficiency through smarter, data-driven utilization of clinical and facility capacity.

Client Integration: 98point6 is a consultative technology partner. We do more than just connect a supply of doctors to patients with demand. Working closely with the Client we can help their virtual care strategy come to life by connecting their entire ecosystem of benefits. On the same platform with which they provide digital primary care, our 98point6 physicians direct patients to in-network providers and additional benefits in-visit and in the Care Plan they receive post-visit, increasing utilization and cost-savings and ensuring patients get the right care at the right time.

1. Access: 98point6 provides on-demand 24/7 access to digital primary care in all 50 states plus D.C. By providing text-based care, 98point6 connects patients to high-quality care in their preferred modality—as evidenced by utilization rates that are 8x greater than our client's previous virtual medicine solution. With no appointments needed members can start a secure visit immediately from the privacy of their smartphone or tablet anytime, anywhere. 98point6 caan also increase overall patient access to care by serving as an extension of a health system’s provider network, covering care needs when PCPs are unavailable (evenings/weekend/holidays) or if patient panels are full.
2.  Quality: By leveraging deep technology and the expertise of board-certified physicians who are exclusively employed by 98point6, we deliver a standard of care on par with what a patient would receive in a brick-and-mortar setting. Our physicians practice 100% evidence-based medicine supported by automated practice standards that ensure consistency of care. Our technology allows our physicians to spend more time diagnosing and treating, answering medical questions and following up with members.
3. Affordability: Our technology drives efficiencies and allows us to deliver high-quality care at a lower price point than has ever been done before. Pairing AI and machine learning with the expertise of our board-certified physicians optimizes the medical visit. As we change the cost-of-care, our pricing model passes the savings on to our clients and patients.

In a market rich with competitor mergers and acquisitions of point solutions to expand scope of care, 98point6 is developing our product and platform to meet these patient needs through a single platform (e.g., our recently launched fully integrated behavioral health offering). 

Our overarching strategy is to pair technology with employed physicians to create automated, evidence-based care pathways with additional integrations that connect patients with in-network providers and benefits at the appropriate time. Our roadmap demonstrates our commitment to maintaining high quality patient care, improving physician and patient experience and strengthening our ability to offer seamless, strategic connections to a patient’s entire suite of health resources.

1. Traditional Telemedicine: 98point6 leads with text first but also offers video and voice if needed to ensure patients can access care in their preferred modality. Our 24/7 on-demand service and ability to integrate with a client’s full ecosystem of benefits means we meet patients where they are, leading to much higher engagement and improved patient outcomes. 98point6 is also differentiated from many traditional telemedicine providers in that our clinic is staffed by board-certified physicians who are employees of 98point6. 98point6 physicians must meet our stringent hiring practices, our NCQA-based credentialing standards and undergo extensive onboarding and ongoing training. 98point6 physicians play a critical role in our product and service design, meet our unique core values requirements and hold an equity position in the company.
2.  Symptom Checkers: These solutions are not user-friendly and often create more worry for patients with a health concern. Symptom checkers also require additional steps to get care, creating more barriers to entry. With 98point6, accessing care from a board-certified physician who can diagnose, treat and prescribe is just as simple and affordable as Googling your symptoms. We leverage our UX design and research capabilities to deliver the highest usability bar helping ensure repeat use.
3. Navigation Platforms: in most cases, for optimal outcomes, patients should start their care journey with a primary care provider. With 98point6 it's easy for patients to start a visit at any time and our physicians can quickly resolve their concern or navigate members to the most appropriate resources. We're not navigating to a specialist first based on the chief complaint, rather our physicians can intelligently determine whether a specialist visit is required.