Overview
- Nolla Health launched the pilot on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, letting adults in Utah with mild-to-moderate acne use the Nolla Derm app to get a treatment plan and a prescription without a prior doctor visit.
- Users complete a 10-to-15-minute intake and a face scan, and the AI can pick from a short, physician-approved formulary of topical treatments with prescriptions delivered within minutes for a $4.99 monthly fee.
- Physician oversight is phased: two doctors must approve every AI prescription for the first roughly 100 patients, the system moves to after-the-fact daily reviews through about 500 patients, and then doctors audit a sample of prescriptions thereafter.
- Nolla says clinicians agreed with the AI’s recommendations in more than 96 percent of cited real-world cases but that figure is company-reported and has not been independently verified.
- Utah has already allowed other AI prescribing pilots for renewals and refills, so regulators view this as a narrow, closely monitored test of expanding AI authority rather than a national change in prescribing rules.