9 Best Telehealth Platforms for Providers of 2026

Doxy.me ranks first because it does one job, the video visit, with the least friction for both sides. A provider gets a personal room link, patients open it in a browser on any device and wait in a customizable waiting room, and Doxy.me says there is nothing to download and no account or password for the patient. The free version covers clinicians who are starting out or see patients online only now and then. Premium at $29 per user per month on annual billing adds the team layer: multi-user clinics, roles and permissions, shared rooms, patient transfer between providers, SMS invites, custom branding, intake and consent workflows and clinic-level reporting. Group calls reach 25 participants, and apps add AI note-taking, teleconsent and CBT activities. A BAA is included and the platform is SOC 2 accredited. The trade-off is scope: there is no calendar, billing or chart, so it pairs with an EHR rather than replacing one.

VSee places second because it sits between a plain video link and a full EHR. The free plan gives a solo provider a walk-in waiting room, unlimited one-to-one HD video, chat and screenshare, quick intake and a signed BAA. Plus at $29 per provider per month adds a custom subdomain, a patient portal, unlimited group video, standard intake and consent, card payments, SMS and email reminders, phone dial-out and the option to bring in family members or interpreters. Premium at $49 per provider, with a $200 setup fee, turns it into a shared front desk for teams up to 50 with shared scheduling, custom intake fields, standard EMR notes and usage reports. VSee also supports live streaming from digital otoscopes, dermatoscopes and ECGs, which suits medical rather than talk-therapy visits. The downside is that support and branding scale with price, and complex workflows move to a quoted Enterprise plan.

SimplePractice is the pick for clinicians who would rather not run telehealth as a separate tool. Every plan, starting with Starter at $49 a month, includes telehealth alongside unlimited clients, progress notes, online payments, paperless intake, Insurance Essentials, a client portal and an EHR mobile app, so a video visit is booked, documented and billed in one place. Essential at $79 adds appointment reminders, calendar sync and secure messaging, which most practices running remote sessions will want. Plus at $99 adds group appointments and group telehealth, plus additional clinicians from $74 each. The Care Aide add-on includes Session Sidekick, which SimplePractice says gives live support during telehealth sessions, and Note Taker for AI progress notes. It scores lower on value than the standalone video tools because the full feature set costs more each month, and group sessions sit on the top tier.

Jane suits clinics where telehealth is one part of a wider booking and charting workflow, such as physiotherapy, chiropractic, counseling or multidisciplinary practices. Jane says one-to-one telehealth is included with every account at no extra cost and connects automatically to scheduling, charting and billing, with a waiting room that lets the practitioner decide when patients join. The cheapest plan, Balance, is USD $59 a month for a single practitioner but is limited to 20 appointments a month, so most working clinicians will move to Practice at $79 or Thrive at $99, which add part-time practitioner pricing and staff tools. Group sessions for couples, families or unrelated groups of up to 15 people cost $15 a month per opted-in practitioner, and AI Scribe is another $15. Jane describes its telehealth as encrypted and compliant with HIPAA, PIPEDA and GDPR best practices. It ranks below the specialist video tools on value because the entry plan is capped.

Healthie is built for nutrition, wellness and virtual-first practices, and telehealth is included from its first plan. Core costs $18 a month billed annually and covers scheduling, payment processing, charting, telehealth, a client portal and an iOS and Android app, but only for 10 active clients. Essentials at $45 raises that to 250 clients and adds free outbound fax and a ClaimMD integration, and Plus at $115 removes the client cap and adds group telehealth, online programs and a dedicated eFax. Group starts at $135 for practices with several practitioners and adds a shared calendar, roles and team chat. Healthie also offers a HIPAA-compliant Zoom integration for individual or group sessions and webinars that needs no personal Zoom account and carries no extra fees. The client caps on the lower plans and annual-billing prices mean the real cost depends on caseload, so check which tier your active client count lands on.

Practice Better targets health coaches, nutritionists and functional medicine practitioners, and telehealth video chat is part of its essentials on every paid plan. The free Sprout plan is aimed at students and practitioners just getting started. Starter costs $25 a month billed annually, or $35 monthly, and covers one practitioner and 10 clients with scheduling, telehealth, billing and payments, secure messaging, a client portal and note templates. Professional at $69 a month raises the limit to 300 clients and adds group scheduling, group messaging and fixed-date programs, while Plus at $99 adds unlimited clients, evergreen and self-paced programs, portal branding and 750 SMS reminders a month. Team at $155 covers two practitioners with up to 200 at $50 each. The strength is combining video sessions with programs that clients work through between visits; the limits are the small client cap on Starter and a focus on wellness rather than insurance-driven medical care.

Spruce Health is a different kind of telehealth pick: a HIPAA-compliant communication platform where video is one channel among several. The Basic plan at $24 per user per month includes a BAA, medical phone, text, video, fax and internal team chat, a customizable shared inbox, auto-replies and AI voicemail transcription. Communicator at $49 per user adds self-service call flows, urgent escalation and after-hours triage, integrations and API access, VoIP phone service and AI transcription and summaries for call recordings. For a practice that already uses an EHR, this means video visits, reminder texts and faxed records all sit in the same patient thread rather than in three tools. Spruce notes that prices exclude taxes and fees, and outbound SMS needs a one-time $19.50 registration fee. It ranks lower on features for telehealth because it has no charting, intake forms or billing of its own.

OptiMantra is aimed at integrative, functional and wellness medicine clinics, and its single plan includes telehealth through secure, HIPAA-compliant video chat. The $99 monthly price for the first practitioner also covers online booking, automated text and email reminders, a patient portal with messaging, customizable charting and templates, compounding, IV and tincture records, point of sale and integrated payments, superbills and membership and package management. Groups add practitioners at $49 a month and clinical staff at $25, while clerical staff are free. Add-ons cover insurance billing at $0.25 per claim, eRx with EPCS at $38 a month, a fax number from $25, two-way texting at $75 and AI charting. There is no long-term contract, only a 30-day cancellation notice. For a clinic that dispenses supplements or runs IV services, having video visits in the same chart is useful; for a clinician who only needs video, the price is high compared with Doxy.me or VSee.

Zoom for Healthcare is the organizational option on this list. Zoom describes it as a healthcare collaboration platform connecting clinicians, staff and patients across telehealth, contact centers and daily workflows, with EHR integration and support for HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, PIPEDA/PHIPA and PCI obligations. Zoom Workplace for Clinicians adds AI note-taking that integrates with the medical record system to document both in-person and virtual visits, and Zoom Workplace for Frontline connects nurses and care teams. A developer platform lets IT teams build telehealth into patient portals, contact centers and scheduling. Moffitt Cancer Center is quoted on Zoom's page saying telehealth makes up about 10% to 15% of its outpatient care. For a solo clinician, though, the healthcare offer is aimed at organizations, and the pricing page showed only Polish zloty from our location, so we could not verify a USD price. That uncertainty and the setup work lower its value score.