Develop Health
Also known as: develophealth.ai
Prescription AI for medication access. It offers benefit verification and a prior authorization agent that finds the payer's form, fills it from the chart with citations, submits, follows up and drafts appeals, with review before submission and a public API.
Develop Health automates prior authorization and benefit verification for prescribers, pharmacies and the life sciences brands funding therapy. Its prescription AI surfaces plan specific coverage, cost and PA requirements before the script is written, then runs the prior authorization. It reads the payer's rules and the chart, drafts every answer with a citation to where it came from and a confidence score, and sends questions it cannot answer to the office instead. The PA is submitted to the payer or PBM, followed up, and on denial analyzed with an appeal offered for review.
Customers choose a non-delegated model, where their reviewer edits and approves each PA before submission, or a delegated one. Pharmacies pick provider led or pharmacist sign off, and ClearPA lets prescriber offices complete pharmacy initiated PAs with a passkey at no cost. It runs inside athenaOne and connects to Epic and Cerner instances, reaches providers by email, SMS, fax and Direct messaging, and publishes a REST API with webhooks, an activity log per PA and a sandbox. Develop Health states HIPAA compliance with SOC 2 Type 2 and HITRUST certifications. Pricing is by sales conversation.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.develophealth.ai
Category
Healthcare agent
Funding status
$14.3M raised (Aug 2025); co-founded by CEO Mel van Londen
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Embedded athenaOne integration, Epic and Cerner instances (about six weeks to set up) and other EHR workflows; submission to payers and PBMs; provider outreach by email, SMS, fax and Direct messaging; public REST API with webhooks for benefit verification, prior authorization and status checks.
In practice
Your clinic prescribes a specialty drug that needs prior authorization. Develop Health finds the payer's form, fills each answer from the chart with a citation and a confidence score, sends questions the chart cannot answer to the office, and holds the PA for your reviewer to approve before submission.
Your pharmacy gets a claim reject on a patient's prescription. Develop Health starts the prior authorization from the reject, reaches the prescriber by email, SMS, fax or Direct messaging, retries outreach until the window closes and follows up with the payer.
Your product team wants prior authorization inside its own platform. The Develop Health REST API creates and tracks PAs, sends signed webhooks as each one moves through review, submission and denial analysis, and offers a sandbox with mock results for testing.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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An embedded athenaOne integration runs inside the prescribing workflow, and Develop Health connects to Epic and Cerner instances, which take about six weeks to set up. It submits to payers and PBMs, reaches prescribers by email, SMS, fax or Direct messaging, and can transfer a prescription to the chosen pharmacy by NCPDP ID. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/providerread 2026-09-29 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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The prior authorization lifecycle branches by state. Review can be delegated or non-delegated, and requests for more information go back to the provider. Outcome validation can send a PA back to follow up, outreach retries and escalates across channels, and a denial is analyzed with an optional appeal. The API exposes all of these as states and events. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/api-reference/prior-authorization/response-handlingread 2026-09-29 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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The agent reads the payer's rules and requirements for the drug and plan, discovers the right form, and fills each answer from the chart notes and evidence files with a citation to where it came from and a confidence score. Where the chart holds no answer, it leaves the question unanswered and routes it to the office. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/clearparead 2026-09-29 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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In the non-delegated model a PA stops at awaiting_review until the customer's authorized reviewer checks the prefilled answers and evidence, edits them and approves submission. Pharmacies choose whether the provider or a pharmacist signs off, and appeals are surfaced for review before they are sent. A delegated model without review before submission is also offered. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/api-reference/prior-authorization/overviewread 2026-09-29 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
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The company states it is HIPAA compliant and holds current SOC 2 Type 2 and HITRUST certifications. Each PA opens only with its own passkey. An organization administrator issues API tokens under user administration, and credentials are scoped per organization. Develop Health names no SSO, roles or permission model. It also runs a Vanta trust center. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/clearparead 2026-09-29 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Each PA exposes an activity log of faxes, calls and follow ups with payers alongside its lifecycle state. Provider outreach events carry the exact rendered message and files sent, checksummed and immutable once sent, with sent, delivered, opened and completed timestamps. Answers carry source citations and confidence scores. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/api-reference/provider-outreach-webhooksread 2026-09-29 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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Each prior authorization carries its own evidence, and Develop Health names no memory that carries across them. With ClearPA, Develop Health says AI models never train on patients' data. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/clearparead 2026-09-29 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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No hosting region is published, and Develop Health names no region choice, customer environment or on premises option. Separate sandbox and production organizations let customers test against the API. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/introductionread 2026-09-29 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Not documented |
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Benefit verification, prior authorization and PA status checks are separate API products. Prior authorization processing runs eligibility and benefit verification itself, so the three work as stages of one medication access workflow, not as products that stand alone. Develop Health publishes no templates or agent library. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/introductionread 2026-09-29 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Work starts from an API request, from the prescribing workflow inside the EHR, or from a partner pharmacy's claim reject. The system then acts on its own. It follows up with payers, schedules outreach retries until the outreach window closes and monitors coverage across the care journey. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/providerread 2026-09-29 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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An LLM ensemble reads the chart, and Develop Health names no model provider, model name or way for the customer to choose a model. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/life-sciencesread 2026-09-29 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A public REST API with bearer tokens covers benefit verification, prior authorization (create, retrieve, cancel, feedback), PA status checks and provider authorization, with OpenAPI specs, signed webhooks, rate limits, a changelog and a sandbox with mock results. Programmatic access is enabled per organization. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/introductionread 2026-09-29 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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The sandbox's mock results test the caller's integration, and the feedback endpoint sends notes to Develop Health's analytics without evaluating the agent. Develop Health names no evaluation harness, test set or quality gate for the agent's answers. Sourcedocs.develophealth.ai/api-reference/prior-authorization/post_feedbackread 2026-09-29 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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The agent works through EHR integration, electronic submission, fax, phone and messaging channels. Develop Health names no browser, desktop or computer control. A customer testimonial mentions portal work but names no mechanism. Sourcedevelophealth.ai/providerread 2026-09-29 |
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Pricing
Contact sales
What is public
No prices are published. The ClearPA FAQ states practices pay nothing (no fee, contract or license) because partner pharmacies cover the cost for the prescriptions they fill; the site anchors value in 90 percent less manual work and approvals in under a day.
Variable cost rationale
No billing basis is published; ClearPA's statement that pharmacies cover the cost for the prescriptions they fill points to per-prescription economics (inference, not a published rate).
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
No free tier or trial for buyers; ClearPA is free to prescriber practices, paid for by partner pharmacies.
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