Empirical Health

Empirical Health is a preventive heart health service that pairs a comprehensive blood panel with an app that models cardiovascular risk and turns it into a daily plan. A single lab visit at one of about 2,200 testing sites measures more than 100 biomarkers, including ApoB, Lp(a), cholesterol subfractions and metabolic, liver, kidney, nutrient, blood and urine markers. The results feed risk scores for heart attack over ten years and over a lifetime, which the user can stress test by toggling lifestyle choices in the app. It is for people who want to act on elevated cholesterol, a family history of heart disease or plain curiosity before symptoms appear. The company was founded by a physician and an engineer and backed by Y Combinator, and its stated approach combines value based care with AI: statistical risk models that forecast cardiovascular risk up to 30 years ahead, and personalized guidance built around the roughly 2,000 lifestyle decisions a person makes each year. The app, available on iOS, Android and the web, includes nutrition plans with food photo tracking, exercise routines matched to the individual's risk profile, and wearable integration. Pricing is published as a one time payment of $190, which covers the lab visit and full access to Empirical Pro. The site also references a range of $190 to $399 against what it values as $1,450 of medical care, so a higher tier exists but is not itemized on the public pages.