The agreement creates a contracted gateway into California’s workers’ compensation market while furthering Rocket Doctor’s aim to increase reimbursed care throughout the United States.
Through the agreement, Rocket Doctor gains access across five network channels, including commercial healthcare, Medicare Advantage, workers’ compensation & auto medical
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This marks another significant milestone in constructing a varied and long-term reimbursement foundation centered on physician-directed virtual care.”— Dr. William Cherniak, Co-Founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor Inc.VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, August 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Rocket Doctor AI Inc. (CSE: AIDR, OTC: AIRDF, Frankfurt: 939) (“Rocket Doctor AI” or the “Company”) today disclosed that physicians utilizing the digital health platform and marketplace of its wholly owned subsidiary, Rocket Doctor Inc., have entered into a strategic provider network arrangement with a major national technology-enabled network solutions partner, widening access to physician-led care across multiple healthcare and insurance channels in California.
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In contrast to conventional payer agreements that target a single business line, this deal enables Rocket Doctor to operate across five network channels: Primary, Complementary, Workers’ Compensation, Auto Medical and Medicare Advantage. Through these networks, Rocket Doctor can engage with upstream insurers, employer health plans and other healthcare organizations that tap into the network and its agreed-upon provider rates, subject to relevant participation, eligibility and benefit requirements.
The national network covers more than 700 health plans, over 100,000 employers and roughly 60 million consumers, with around 1.4 million contracted providers. With a single agreement, Rocket Doctor obtains a route to participate across a wide spectrum of healthcare and reimbursement channels without needing separate network contracts with each downstream organization. The arrangement took effect on July 1, 2026, and carries an initial one-year term that automatically renews annually.
“We are especially excited about this agreement because of the wide-ranging access it provides through just one relationship,” said Dr. William Cherniak, Co-Founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor Inc. “As we keep growing in California, moving beyond standard health insurance into areas like workers’ compensation and auto medical opens up fresh opportunities for physicians to reach patients who require timely care. It is another important step toward building a diversified and sustainable reimbursement infrastructure around physician-led virtual care.”
For Rocket Doctor, this deal signals an expansion of its U.S. reimbursement strategy beyond conventional commercial and government-sponsored health insurance. In addition to commercial healthcare and Medicare Advantage, the agreement secures contracted entry into workers’ compensation and auto medical markets, offering extra channels through which physicians using Rocket Doctor’s technology and systems can deliver reimbursed care.
The agreement is especially relevant to Rocket Doctor’s care model in California. California telehealth requirements integrated into the contract support reimbursement for covered services delivered via telehealth, aiding Rocket Doctor in providing physician-led virtual care through established reimbursement networks.
The deal also establishes a new contracted entry point for Rocket Doctor into California’s workers’ compensation market. The state’s workers’ compensation framework permits the delivery and reimbursement of eligible healthcare services via telehealth, presenting an additional opportunity for Rocket Doctor to assist patients needing timely assessment, treatment, and follow-up care.
The agreement marks another milestone in Rocket Doctor’s U.S. commercialization strategy as the Company continues to broaden its physician network, reimbursement infrastructure and patient access across key markets. By securing access to multiple lines of business through a single network contract, Rocket Doctor is diversifying its potential sources of reimbursed patient encounters while creating further opportunities for utilization and sustained growth.
About Rocket Doctor AI Inc.
Rocket Doctor AI Inc. delivers physician-built, AI-powered solutions designed to make high-quality healthcare accessible throughout the entire patient journey. A cornerstone of the company’s proprietary technology is the Global Library of Medicine (GLM), a clinically validated decision support system developed with input from hundreds of physicians worldwide.
Alongside the GLM is Rocket Doctor Inc, and its AI-powered digital health platform and marketplace. Having helped empower over 350 MDs to provide care to more than 750,000 patient visits, our proprietary technology software and systems enable doctors to independently launch and manage their own virtual or hybrid in-person practices – improving efficiency, restoring autonomy to MDs, and expanding patient access to care.
By reducing administrative burdens and ensuring greater consistency in care, our technology creates more time for meaningful physician-patient interactions. We are committed to reaching underserved, rural, and remote communities in Canada who often lack access to family doctors and supporting patients on Medicaid and Medicare in the United States. With advanced AI, large language models, and connected medical devices, Rocket Doctor AI is redefining modern healthcare – making it more scalable, equitable, and patient-centered.
To learn more about Rocket Doctor AI Inc’s products and services, contact:
www.rocketdoctor.ai or email: info@rocketdoctor.ai
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Dr. Essam Hamza, CEO, Rocket Doctor AI
essam.hamza@rocketdoctor.ai
Dr. Bill Cherniak, CEO, Rocket Doctor Inc.
bill@rocketdoctor.io
For media inquiries, contact: media@rocketdoctor.ai
Call: +1 (778) 819 8321
Cautionary Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements relating to the future operations of Rocket Doctor AI Inc. and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "will", "may", "should", "anticipate", "expects" and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company's strategic network agreement with its national network solutions partner, the anticipated access to and utilization of five network channels (including commercial healthcare, Medicare Advantage, workers' compensation and auto medical), the anticipated breadth and depth of patient and payer access through the network, the anticipated growth in reimbursed patient encounters, the Company's continued growth in the United States, the ability of the Company to expand its physician network and reimbursement infrastructure across key markets, the positioning of Rocket Doctor Practice Group as a participant across multiple lines of business through a single network agreement, and future plans and objectives of Rocket Doctor AI Inc., are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Rocket Doctor AI Inc.'s expectations include the risk that the network agreement may not generate the anticipated patient encounters or reimbursement outcomes, the risk that downstream insurers, employer health plans or other organizations may not access the network or its contracted provider rates in the anticipated manner, risks relating to applicable participation, eligibility and benefit requirements under the agreement, risks relating to healthcare regulation (including telehealth requirements) in California and other U.S. jurisdictions, risks relating to the workers' compensation fee schedule and applicable reimbursement requirements, and other risks detailed from time to time in the filings made by Rocket Doctor AI Inc. with securities regulators.
The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking information may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of Rocket Doctor AI Inc. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking information. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and Rocket Doctor AI Inc. will only update or revise publicly the included forward-looking statements as expressly required by Canadian securities law.
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Rocket Doctor AI (CSE: AIDR) announced a new California network agreement
