SickSlip, the physician-founded company that modernized the workplace and school absence note, has expanded into three new categories, led by sports physicals for student athletes.
Enhancing Sports Physicals with SportSlip
Why Choose SickSlip for Your Sports Physicals?
SportSlip is built around a proprietary physician-designed screening that captures a full cardiac, medical, and orthopedic history. It is modeled on the joint AAP/AHA pre-participation consensus, incorporates the American Heart Association’s full 14-element cardiac history, and offers an optional ECG review interpreted under the international (Seattle) criteria used in European and Olympic athlete screening.
“A sports physical is not a formality. It is often the one moment a young athlete’s cardiac, medical, and orthopedic history gets a careful look before they push their body hard, and it deserves real rigor,” said Adam Z. Kawalek, MD, a board-certified internal medicine physician on the medical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and SickSlip’s founder.
“We built SportSlip’s screening on the standards a good clinic would use. The difference is access. More than 100 million Americans no longer have a regular primary care physician, so for many families a well-designed telehealth screening is not the convenient option. It is the only one they have.”
SickSlip also launched MedSlip, issuing letters of medical necessity so patients can put pre-tax HSA and FSA funds toward expenses that require physician certification, and DiveSlip, physician-signed dive medical clearances for recreational scuba certification.
“Any brand that wants its product covered by HSA or FSA dollars needs a physician’s letter of medical necessity, and that’s the bottleneck. MedSlip is the physician layer that clears it, to the IRS standard and tied to a real diagnosis. Our aim is to be the medical-necessity rail the HSA and FSA economy runs on,” Dr. Kawalek added.
Every SickSlip document is signed by a licensed, board-certified physician with built-in verification for authenticity.
