August Care combines board-certified physicians, next-day labs, and 10-minute prescriptions so users never feel lost about their health
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August AI, the AI health companion used by more than nine million people across 160 countries, today introduced August Care, a $39-a-month healthcare membership designed to give people a centralized place to manage their everyday healthcare needs. Members can ask health questions anytime, see a board-certified doctor, get next-day labs and receive prescriptions within 10 minutes. They also receive follow-up care for a full year after a visit, plus support for everyday questions that don’t fit neatly into a doctor’s appointment, like understanding what their insurance actually covers.
August Care is built on top of August AI’s free health companion, which reads prescriptions and lab reports, explains medical terms in plain language, helps someone make sense of a symptom or a result, and carries a person’s conditions and history forward so nothing has to be re-explained from scratch each time. It’s part of the company’s broader mission to shape the future of American healthcare so that no one feels alone in their care journey.
August Care adds the physicians, labs and prescriptions needed to act on what the companion helps someone understand, closing the gaps that open up between doctor visits — physician shortages, delayed prescriptions, unexpected costs, long wait times — for everyone on the continuum from insured to uninsured. That includes roughly one in four insured adults considered underinsured, according to The Commonwealth Fund, and the 27 percent of adults who say they’ve skipped filling a prescription because of cost, per KFF. August Care can members can save up to $3,000 a year, and up to $3,500 for someone managing chronic conditions like diabetes.
“Too many people put off care because they’re not sure it’s worth the cost, or they don’t know where to start,” said Dr. Trushar Dungarani, Chief Clinical Officer of August AI. “Healthcare shouldn’t feel like guesswork, and it shouldn’t feel like something you’re navigating by yourself. August Care is built so that a physician’s judgment is available to everyone who needs it, at a fixed price that’s clear upfront. Our physicians make every clinical decision, and August AI’s role is to help people get to that decision faster and understand what happens next.”
What’s included
For $39 a month, August Care members get:
- Unlimited AI health chat, to ask questions and understand symptoms, reports, and follow-ups at any time.
- One telehealth consultation a month. Additional consults are available for just $19.
- Next-day access to the same labs people already trust, including Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp, for the most common blood panels, no primary care referral required.
- Prescriptions sent to the pharmacy within 10 minutes of physician approval, about ten times faster than the industry’s typical two-hour turnaround.
- Unlimited follow-ups for 12 months after a consultation, so members aren’t left to figure out next steps alone.
- Doctor’s notes and EHR integration, at no additional cost, when medically appropriate.
- Board-certified physician oversight, averaging 20+ years of experience, on every clinical decision.
- Insurance guidance, to help members understand coverage, costs and care options.
Physicians shaped August AI from the beginning, guiding how the AI asks follow-up questions, flags risk, and recognizes when someone needs in-person or emergency care, at which point August directs them to the appropriate care. A licensed physician makes every prescription, note and clinical decision inside August Care. Its AI ensures nothing gets missed in between, reading lab reports and records, breaking down complex health information, and helping members prepare for care. It’s designed to complement a person’s existing healthcare alongside professional medical advice.
August AI’s dataset is trained on 300 million real patient interactions, giving it context that most symptom-checkers, built on textbook and literature data alone, don’t have. Its underlying models score 100 percent on the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, the exam every licensed U.S. physician must pass, with a passing threshold around 60 percent that takes most human test-takers years of training to clear. That’s up from 94.8 percent two years ago, effectively saturating the benchmark. August also leads competing AI models on MedQA — a benchmark of USMLE-style clinical vignettes — and the medical subsets of MMLU, benchmarks that test multi-step clinical reasoning, working through a patient’s symptoms and test results to reach the right next step, rather than simple fact recall.
August Care is available now to consumers in the United States at $39 a month, with no long-term contract required. More information is available at https://meetaugust.ai
About August AI
August AI’s mission is to shape the future of American healthcare so that no one is left feeling alone or confused about what to do next. Founded in 2022 by Anuruddh Mishra, August is a health AI that stays with a patient over time, answering medical questions, interpreting labs and prescriptions, and carrying a patient’s conditions and history forward so new information is always read in context. Available in more than 30 languages, it has grown to nine million users across 160 countries with almost no advertising. In the United States, August connects patients to licensed physicians who review each case and prescribe, and the platform is HIPAA-certified and LegitScript-certified. August is backed by Accel. Learn more at meetaugust.ai.
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