Treatment catalog
A treatment catalog is the approved list of medications, doses, and services a telehealth program can request for its patients — each entry tied to a clinical protocol, a category, and the pharmacies that can fill it — so that every request a product or agent makes is drawn from a defined, clinician-governed set rather than free text.
- Approved set of requestable treatments
- Each entry carries protocol, pharmacies, and state availability
- Products and agents request from it; clinicians decide
- Exposed on Lithos as catalog_treatments
Why a catalog instead of free-text prescriptions
Clinicians prescribe; products request. A catalog is how those two facts coexist. The product (or an agent acting for a patient) can only ask for entries the medical group has approved, with the protocol criteria attached; the clinician still decides whether this patient gets it. The catalog makes requests machine-checkable — eligibility, contraindications, state availability — before a clinician ever sees them.
What a catalog entry carries
A useful entry is more than a drug name.
- The medication, strength, form, and quantity or supply length
- Category (weight management, hair loss, hormone therapy…) and the protocol that governs it
- Which pharmacies can fill it, and whether it needs cold chain
- State availability, driven by modality and pharmacy licensure rules
- Refill and titration rules — how many fills, what check-in is required before a step
Catalogs and agents
For AI agents the catalog is the guardrail that makes “request a refill” safe: the agent chooses from a finite, described set, the infrastructure validates the choice, and the clinician signs or declines. Without it, an agent would be composing prescriptions — which no one wants and no state allows.
Compliance handled, so you can build
Lithos runs the clinicians, pharmacies, and 50-state rules behind your care program — one API.
Frequently asked questions
Who decides what goes in a treatment catalog?
The medical group’s clinical leadership, with pharmacy input on what can be filled and shipped. The brand chooses which approved entries to offer; it does not add medications on its own.
Can a clinician prescribe something not in the catalog?
Clinicians retain their judgment and can decline or adjust within protocol. Adding a new medication to the requestable set is a governance change — protocol, pharmacy, and state review — not a per-visit decision.
How does a catalog handle state differences?
Each entry carries state availability, so a treatment that requires a live visit in one state or cannot ship there is simply not offered to patients in that state.