SickSlip Expands Beyond Doctor's Notes Into Sports Physicals, HSA/FSA Letters, and Dive Medicals

Founded by Dr. Adam Z. Kawalek, SportSlip brings sports physicals online, built on the joint AAP/AHA pre-participation consensus with ECG screening read to international criteria.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

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.

About SickSlip

SickSlip is a digital health company providing physician-reviewed documentation for work and school absences, sports physicals, HSA/FSA letters, and dive medicals. Founded in Los Angeles, it has served over 3,500 patients across 30 states.

SickSlip: www.sickslip.co
SportSlip: www.sportslip.co
MedSlip: www.medslip.co
DiveSlip: www.diveslip.co

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