The number of people accessing healthcare via screens, phones, and tablets isn’t going to stop growing any time soon. Telehealth and telemedicine’s growth has opened up major opportunities but also big hiring challenges for healthcare leaders, HR teams, and recruiters who want to build strong virtual care teams.
Here are some of the numbers that show just how fast things are shifting:
- The global telehealth market was worth about US$161.64 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to US$791.04 billion by 2032
- McKinsey reports that telehealth use surged to 38 times the pre-COVID baseline at the height of the pandemic
- Also, more than 50 million in-person visits per year could potentially be shifted to telehealth or virtual care if adoption were more evenly distributed across different patient populations.
When demand for telehealth skyrockets like this, staffing becomes a bottleneck. Healthcare leaders need remote-capable doctors, nurses, behavioral health practitioners, platform-savvy clinicians, and regulatory/licensing experts, all with the skills to deliver good care virtually.
HR teams can’t just rely on traditional recruiting; they need partners who understand licensure across regions, remote patient engagement, privacy & tech literacy, and the workflows unique to telehealth.
So in this guide, we’ll explore the top telehealth recruitment agencies that are doing it right. We’ll look at what services they offer, who they’re best for, and how they can help you scale your telehealth workforce without cutting corners.
Let’s begin.
What is a Telehealth Recruitment Agency?
A telehealth recruitment agency is a specialized partner that helps healthcare organizations find, hire, and onboard clinicians for virtual care. They don’t use traditional job boards and are nothing like generalist staffing firms.
In fact, these agencies focus specifically on the unique demands of remote healthcare delivery. That means they understand licensing across multiple states, payer credentialing, telehealth workflows, and the tech skills required for clinicians to succeed in a digital environment.
For HR leaders, hiring managers, and clinical operations teams, this partnership solves a critical challenge.
That challenge is getting qualified telehealth providers in place quickly, without drowning in compliance and credentialing paperwork.
Who uses Telehealth Recruitment Agencies?
- Hospitals and health systems that need to extend coverage or launch new telehealth services
- Private practices and specialty clinics looking to reduce patient wait times with virtual appointments
- Digital health and telemedicine companies scaling quickly and requiring compliant, multi-state talent
- HR and talent acquisition teams under pressure to fill roles faster while keeping turnover low
Benefits of Working with a Telehealth Recruitment Firm
The best telehealth doctors are licensed, credentialed, and tech-savvy professionals who can slot into your workflows without disruption. That’s where a specialized telehealth recruitment firm makes the difference. Instead of spending months chasing CVs, licenses, and privileging documents, you get a partner who already has those hurdles mapped out.
Faster Hiring, Less Downtime
On your own, filling a radiologist role can take several months. Recruitment firms cut that dramatically.
After all, they maintain deep talent pools of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, behavioral health specialists, and other remote-ready clinicians. Many also cover non-clinical roles like case managers, schedulers, or medical coders that keep virtual care programs running smoothly.
For example, at Alpha Apex Group Health, our proprietary platform generates 400+ healthcare candidate inquiries daily.
Multi-State Licensing & Compliance Handled
Telehealth crosses state lines, and keeping up with licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment can overwhelm internal HR. Specialized firms manage these processes end-to-end, so your new hire is compliant and ready to work where you need them.
The risks of getting it wrong are massive.
Poor credentialing is responsible for delays, denials, and even multimillion-dollar penalties in healthcare. For example, one radiology group paid a $3.1 million settlement for credentialing failures.
Even worse, 40% of the credentialing information in providers’ rosters is incorrect. The incorrect data leads to about 85% of credentialing applications missing critical information, which causes delays, denials, and more.
Access to a Broader Talent Pool
Instead of being limited to who applies to your posting, you gain access to radiologists who are already vetted for remote readiness, subspecialty expertise, and technology fluency. That expands your options and makes it easier to find the right clinical and cultural fit.
You even get access to people not actively looking for a new job. These telehealth professionals are the so-called unicorns that you want to get on board quickly.
At Alpha Apex Group Health, our average placement time is just 55-90 days. Compare that with the 120-day industry average in physician/APP placements.
Cost Control & Flexibility
Need overnight coverage for a few weeks? A subspecialist on weekends? Or a long-term locum to keep things steady? Recruitment firms give you the flexibility to scale staffing up or down without committing to full-time salaries and benefits.
Let’s look at the numbers.
If you hire an agency and pay 20-25% of first‐year salary, for a physician whose annual salary is, say, US$200,000, that’s US$40,000-50,000 just in placement fees.
On the other hand, if you try to do this in-house, you have fixed costs: internal recruiter / HR salaries, onboarding overhead, technology (ATS, job boards, background-check services), manager interview time, etc.
These costs exist whether or not you’re hiring constantly at that same seniority.
Also, opportunity costs: a vacant role loses revenue (~US$8,000/day in healthcare). You can delay that loss with an agency’s help faster. By comparison, if your in-house hiring is slow, you pay many days of vacancy.
At Alpha Apex Group, by comparison, we realize 50–70% savings for our clients compared to contingent or locum-first models.
Reduced Administrative Burden
From credentialing packets to scheduling to onboarding, agencies handle the administrative grind. That’s great because your HR and medical staff teams can spend less time dealing with paperwork and more time focusing on patient care or in-house operations.
TL;DR Top 5 Telehealth Recruitment Agencies
1. AAG Health. AAG Health is the only firm that handles full-service licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment across all 50 states to compress months of red tape into days so your telehealth program can launch or scale without delay.
2. VISTA Staffing Solutions. VISTA stands out for its ability to deploy both staffing and telehealth technology in as little as 72 hours, which gives hospitals and health systems just-in-time specialty coverage without workflow disruption.
3. DirectShifts. DirectShifts gives HR leaders instant access to 800,000+ pre-credentialed, multi-state licensed clinicians, so you get faster, lower-cost telehealth staffing that scales up or down with demand.
4. Storm3. Storm3 specializes in recruiting senior and executive talent for HealthTech and telehealth startups, which makes them a great partner when you need leadership hires to scale digital care programs.
5. Alp Consulting. Alp Consulting combines telehealth compliance expertise with a global offshore staffing model that offers cost-efficient access to trained clinicians for contract, temporary, or permanent roles.
Top 10 Telehealth Recruitment Agencies
The best recruitment agencies in telehealth currently on the market include AAG Health, VISTA, DirectShifts, and Storm3.
We’ll discuss their services, pros, and cons below.
1. AAG Health
AAG Health specializes in end-to-end telehealth clinician staffing. For healthcare leaders and HR teams under pressure to launch or expand virtual care programs, AAG handles the hardest, most time-consuming parts of the process.
A few of our results (some of which we discusses above, too) include:
- 72 hours until the first CVs get in your inbox
- 55–90 days average placement time, which is 25-55% lower than the industry average
- 80% success rate for candidate placement
- 50-70% cost savings for most of our clients
- 90-day replacement guarantee
Here’s how it works: once you identify the type of provider you need (physician, NP, PA, or behavioral health specialist), our AAG Health experts source from a vetted network of telehealth-trained, board-certified clinicians.
In fact, this proprietary platform can produce over 400 inquiries per day.
Then, they take over the admin (state licensing, hospital privileging, payer enrollment, and onboarding) across all 50 states.
This is a big deal because internal teams can face 60–90 day delays just to credential a single provider across multiple states.
AAG compresses that timeline to a matter of days, so you can launch services, expand coverage, or meet demand spikes without getting stuck in red tape.
Our providers are matched to your clinical protocols and tech workflows (like EMRs or remote monitoring platforms), and assigned in consistent rotations so patients see the same faces, and care quality stays high.
You also avoid long-term payroll and benefits costs by using our flexible, per-need model, which means you’re only paying for actual hours worked.
Key Services
- Full-service licensing, privileging, and payer credentialing in all 50 states
- Rapid placement of telehealth-trained physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, and behavioral health providers
- Workflow-matched rotations for provider consistency and reduced churn
- Flexible coverage options, which means no long-term contracts or benefits obligations
- Provider onboarding aligned with your tech platforms, EMRs, and clinical protocols
- Scalable staffing to support surges, expansions, or backfills in virtual care programs
Why Work with AAG Health?
Because they combine full compliance, credentialing rapid telehealth‑ready placement, with 80% placement success rate, up to 70% cost savings, and up to 55% faster than the industry average.
2. VISTA Staffing Solutions
VISTA Staffing Solutions delivers telehealth staffing and tech implementation geared for healthcare organizations, like health systems, hospitals, and virtual care providers.
We appreciate that it offers fast, reliable remote coverage without sacrificing clinical quality or operational workflow.
When a provider needs backup (whether that’s for emergency medicine, psychiatry, primary care, hospitalist, or critical care) VISTA supplies MDs, DOs, nurse practitioners, and PAs trained for virtual care.
The moment you signal a need, VISTA can furnish “just‑in‑time” clinical coverage (single call shifts up to full teams). They can even stand up telehealth technology infrastructure in as fast as 72 hours or fewer, according to their website.
They make sure that your telehealth platform is intuitive for both administrative and clinical staff, and works with existing workflows so patient experience, provider usability, and throughput aren't disrupted. All of this helps your HR/staffing teams reduce delays, avoid overburdening in‑house staff, and maintain capacity during surges.
Key Services
- Just‑in‑time telehealth clinical coverage (MDs, DOs, advanced practitioners) across specialties: hospitalist, emergency medicine, primary care, critical care, psychiatry, and neurology
- Flexible staffing by shift or full teams for remote coverage
- Rapid implementation of telehealth programs: technology and staffing together, deployable in ~72 hours
- Intuitive technology platform integration designed for clinical and administrative ease, with usability and patient experience in mind
- Risk management & capacity support: limiting exposure (patient & provider), managing bed/capacity demands, maintaining throughput
Why Work with VISTA Staffing Solutions?
They uniquely combine ultra‑fast tech and staffing deployment with flexible, clinically deep telehealth coverage. That means you can scale or backfill remote services quickly and without weakening quality, safety, or clinician/administrator experience.
3. DirectShifts
DirectShifts offers telehealth companies a flexible, scalable staffing platform built for fast response, compliance, and cost control. When patient volume spikes or drops, or when virtual care programs need to expand quickly, DirectShifts lets HR/clinical leaders adjust staffing up or down without long waits or overpaying.
They maintain a large pool of 800,000+ clinicians who are pre‑verified, pre‑credentialed, and licensed in multiple states, which means fewer credentialing and licensure bottlenecks.
For providers, this means faster onboarding and fewer legal/regulatory risks; for hiring teams, this means reducing agency costs and avoiding delays waiting for credentialing paperwork.
Their technology supports mobile timesheet submissions, transparent clinician license tracking, and tools to manage moonlighting clinicians, ensuring both compliance and operational visibility.
That’s why, in a recent case study, a behavioral health platform scaled its provider network by hiring 80+ clinicians in under 6 months.
That said, if you need hands-on support with payer enrollment, medical staff privileging, or white-glove onboarding across all 50 states, AAG Health offers deeper operational support and managed services that go beyond what tech-first platforms like DirectShifts provide.
Key Services
- Access to 800,000+ telehealth‑ready clinicians (pre‑verified, pre‑credentialed, multi‑state licensing)
- Scalable staffing models: flexible shifts, part‑time or full teams depending on demand
- Compliance support: state regulation adherence, corporate practice of medicine laws, licensing tracking
- Mobile app & platform features: clinician timesheets via mobile, license filtering, shadow dashboards for hiring/tracking
- Cost reduction via lowered staff agency fees, reduced fill‑times, and more efficient clinician deployment
Why Work with DirectShifts?
Because you get access to a massive network of clinicians who are already cleared to work, along with tools that shrink credential‑/licensing delays.
4. Storm3
Storm3 is a specialist recruiter for HealthTech and digital health and telehealth companies that need mid‑level to senior executive talent. If your organization is scaling virtual care, launching telemedicine programs, or building technology infrastructure for remote care, Storm3 can help.
The agency fills roles in Product Management, Engineering/DevOps, Data & Analytics, Sales & Marketing, and Finance & Operations, especially for startups or scale‑ups (Series A+).
They’re designed for speed and clarity: they maintain close communication throughout the hiring process, deliver highly aligned candidate short‑lists, and support clients with market insights (compensation benchmarks, diversity & inclusion, hiring best practices) so decisions are rooted in real data.
Key Services
- Recruitment of mid‑level through executive/senior leadership roles in HealthTech / Telehealth & digital health scale‑ups and startups
- Domain specialization: Data & Analytics; Engineering & DevOps; Product Management; Sales & Marketing; Finance & Operations
- Market intelligence: compensation benchmarking, diversity & inclusion guidance, hiring & retention best practices for HealthTech
- Transparent hiring process & communication: frequent updates; high fidelity matching between candidates’ skills and company needs
- Risk‑mitigation guarantees: replacement or rebate options if senior hires don’t perform or stay for the agreed period. (Be aware that exact terms may vary & should be verified with Storm3 during engagement.)
Why Work with Storm3?
Unlike some others on our list, Storm3 specializes in recruiting HealthTech and telehealth leaders, making them a great choice if you’re looking for senior hires.
5. Alp Consulting
Alp Consulting is a recruitment and staffing firm that supports telehealth and virtual care providers. As all the other agencies in this review, it can supply medical professionals, from physicians and advanced practitioners to specialists, for contract, temporary, or permanent roles.
Once you've signed the contract, Alp handles onboarding, including training, makes sure clinicians have the necessary tech and equipment, and integrates them into client systems.
And just like Alpha Apex Group Health, they also manage compliance, licensing, and regulatory standards relevant to telehealth, which takes the burden off your internal HR and operations teams.
Because of their offshore model, many organizations also see cost savings, especially when scaling or managing surges in patient volume, without sacrificing quality or specialist expertise.
Of course, AAG Health’s cost savings reach 50-70% in most cases.
Alp Consulting has other good features similar to AAG Health’s, too: global reach (400+ client brands), domestic scale (multiple major offices, large candidate pools), and experience across healthcare & life sciences.
All this allows them to offer speed and specialty depth in staffing that many smaller or more generalist firms struggle to match.
Key Services
- Supplying telehealth‑trained physicians, nurse practitioners, and specialists for contract, temporary, or permanent roles
- Onboarding & training of staff, equipping them with technology, ensuring smooth integration into client platforms and virtual care workflows
- Ensuring compliance with licensing, certifications, and telehealth regulations
- Flexible workforce scaling: expanding or contracting staff numbers as demand fluctuates
- Managing administrative burdens like scheduling, billing, payroll, and workflow integration
Why Work with Alp Consulting?
They offer an international, offshore staffing model that combines specialty depth and compliance support, and gives telehealth providers cost‑efficient access to trained clinicians.
6. Soliant Health
Soliant Health helps schools, districts, and healthcare‑education entities fill both remote (telehealth/teleservice) and in‑person roles, especially for therapy, special education, and allied health.
Let’s say an institution needs speech‑language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational therapists, interpreters, or special education teachers. Soliant handles sourcing, credentialing/licensing, and matching to the student or patient population you serve.
They ask detailed questions from the start, around students' or patients’ needs, region, and specialty, to make sure candidates fit well with your existing workflows and geographic or regulatory constraints.
Their telehealth/teleservices offerings expand the talent pool beyond local hires. We do the same at Alpha Apex Group Health because it:
- Lowers geographic and mobility barriers
- Reduces commuting or relocation costs
- Improves access to specialists for remote or underserved areas
Because they work nationally and across states, they can help with the credential and licensure requirements to reduce delays, especially for remote therapy or teletherapy assignments.
Key Services
- Telehealth and teleservices staffing focused on speech‑language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational therapists, interpreters, and special education teachers
- In‑person staffing for schools and educational settings: therapists, special education, behavioral staff, etc.
- Flexible placements: full‑time, part‑time, temp, permanent contracts
- Credentialing/licensure support for school‑based/therapy professionals across states
- Matching to student/patient population & therapeutic specialty to ensure fit (e.g., mobility, language, assistive tech) and better outcomes
Why Work with Soliant Health?
Because they specialize in educational environments, something most telehealth staffing firms don’t do. Soliant understands the unique needs of school‑based therapy, from IEP alignment to district regulations, so you get specialists who can thrive in K–12 settings, whether remote or onsite.
7. Wow Remote Teams
Wow Remote Teams connects U.S. telehealth and healthcare organizations with bilingual professionals in Latin America for clinical support as well as non-clinical/administrative roles.
They maintain a pool of pre-vetted, HIPAA-awareness screened talent, including virtual therapists, PAs, case-management nurses, medical interpreters, billing & coding experts, and patient coordinators.
When a client engages them, Wow Remote Teams quickly matches talent to roles. They handle onboarding, payroll & compliance, and make sure working hours line up with U.S. time zones.
Their clients are happy, too.
One case with a remote Physician Assistant showed 94% patient satisfaction and a 38% reduction in wait times for routine telehealth consults within a few months.
Key Services
- Remote care and healthcare professional staffing for virtual therapists, PAs, case management nurses, and more
- Non-clinical support roles: medical billing & coding, patient schedulers/coordinators, telehealth virtual assistants, admission coordinators, etc.
- Pre-vetted, bilingual talent based in Latin America with matching time zones and compliance prerequisites handled
- Rapid matching and onboarding: typically, candidates are presented in 3 days
- Risk-reduction features: guarantees or replacement/refund options when matches don’t work out; also handles contract, payroll, and legal compliance
Why Work with Wow Remote Teams?
They uniquely offer highly bilingual, near-shore professionals who are already pre-vetted and ready to plug into both administrative and clinical telehealth functions.
8. Beacon Health
Beacon Health embeds senior, healthcare-/telehealth-specialized recruiters directly into your organization, so you get internal-team style recruiting without actually hiring full-time staff.
Their recruiters (with 30+ years of talent acquisition experience) integrate with your hiring managers to source, vet, and hire clinical and non-clinical telehealth personnel.
Just like AAG Health and other previous agencies in this review, they use tools, networks, and recruiting practices specific to healthcare. That way, you’re not getting generic recruiting methods, but ones that are proven to work for telemedicine/virtual care roles.
For example, at AAGH, we like to track payer enrollment status for each professional. So when a hospital requests coverage, we already know which providers are cleared to bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurers in that state.
But back to Beacon Health.
Because the recruiter becomes part of your team, you get better alignment with your culture, tighter hiring standards, faster communication, and better candidate fit. For HR leaders and operations execs in telehealth, that means fewer mis-hires, faster candidate throughput, and less back-and-forth between internal and external recruiters.
Key Services
- Embedding full-service senior telehealth/healthcare recruiters into your internal recruiting or TA team
- Dedicated recruiter(s) who handle day-to-day sourcing, interviewing, and hiring tasks so your internal team can work on operations or care delivery
- Sourcing for telehealth physicians, nurses, specialty clinicians, and support roles specifically tailored to virtual care/telemedicine
- Recruiters with proven track records in healthcare hiring, healthcare-specific screening, and candidate evaluation
- Faster hiring and onboarding cycles because the recruiter is embedded and familiar with your internal systems, culture, and needs
Why Work with Beacon Health?
They offer a rare hybrid: you get the loyalty, insight, and cultural alignment of an in-house talent team, but with the experience and networks of a senior recruiting firm tailored to telehealth.
9. Weatherby Healthcare
Weatherby Healthcare offers locum tenens remote (telehealth) assignments for physicians and advanced practice providers (NPs, PAs, CRNAs), which means they can work virtual roles across specialties without the need to relocate or travel.
When a health system or telehealth provider has a gap, for example, due to staffing shortages, seasonal demands, or specialist coverage needs, Weatherby steps in to recruit, credential, license, and onboard clinicians into telehealth assignments.
They also handle malpractice coverage, support across workflows, and match clinicians to patient populations and telehealth platforms.
They list hundreds of opportunities in over 50 specialties (from psychiatry and neurology to radiology and emergency medicine) so clients can find clinicians with the skills and specialty fit needed. They offer flexible durations (short, long-term, or per diem), so your recruiting or operations team gains agility.
Key Services
- Telehealth locum tenens assignments for physicians, NPs, PAs, and CRNAs across many specialties
- Flexible duration work: per diem, short-term, long-term remote roles
- Full credentialing, licensing, and privileging support for remote telehealth assignments
- Malpractice coverage similar to on-site locum roles, with support from Weatherby consultants
- Specialty matching and consultant-led pairing
- Online listings and platform tools for telehealth locum roles to support job discovery and application
Why Work with Weatherby Healthcare?
They give you specialist remote locum coverage with strong credentialing support across a very wide range of medical fields, which makes it easier and faster to fill hard-to-staff telehealth specialty gaps.
10. AlediumHR
AlediumHR is a recruiting firm that specializes in healthcare roles for both clinical and non-clinical positions and has built strong expertise in telehealth staffing. They’ve been recruiting for remote and virtual care roles since before COVID made telehealth mainstream.
And that means they already understand areas like multi-state licensure, digital workflow fluency, virtual monitoring, and remote patient interaction.
When you hire through them, they use their AI-powered platform Talentlytical® to identify candidates, filter for remote-readiness, and speed up sourcing.
By comparison, at AAGH, we use our proprietary platform along with healthcare networks and credentialing tools. This way, clients get more qualified candidates who are ready for the specific demands of telehealth.
They also offer a fixed subscription model (RaaS™) so clients can scale hiring without unpredictable fee spikes.
Key Services
- Telehealth and remote-centric recruiting to match candidates with virtual-care skills, digital fluency, and state-licensure readiness
- Broad role coverage: clinical (physicians, nurses, case managers, therapists), non-clinical (medical coders, administrative, allied health) across the U.S. & Canada
- AI-powered sourcing & candidate matching (Talentlytical®) to reduce sourcing latency and improve match quality
- Subscription / fixed-cost recruiting model (Recruitment-as-a-Subscription, “RaaS™”) to control costs and scale hiring predictably
Why Work with AlediumHR?
Because they combine seasoned telehealth recruiting with advanced AI tools and a subscription model that keeps costs predictable. Compared to firms focused mostly on immediate fill, they deliver both speed and long-term stability.
How to Choose the Right Telehealth Recruitment Firm
Not all recruitment partners are built the same. When you’re trying to fill a telehealth role, you need speed, compliance, and the right clinical fit. Here’s what to look for, plus red flags to avoid, and questions to ask before you commit.
1. Evaluate Their Licensing and Credentialing Workflows
A major pain point for hospitals and imaging centers is discovering too late that a candidate can’t legally practice in the target state. The right agency won’t just source clinicians; they’ll manage licensing and credentialing end-to-end.
This includes handling multi-state licenses, payer enrollment, and compliance with Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers.
Agencies that gloss over these details expose organizations to delays, denied claims, or even legal liability.
Ask exactly how they validate credentials, how often they update their provider records, and what safety checks are in place to prevent noncompliance.
2. Look at Speed-to-Fill, Not Just Cost
Many providers burned by traditional recruiting firms learned the hard way that “cheap” hires cost far more when roles stay vacant. In radiology, each unfilled day can mean thousands in lost billables.
A strong telehealth recruitment partner understands that every delay is revenue left on the table.
Instead of focusing only on agency fees, assess how quickly they can fill a position with fully credentialed, ready-to-read providers. Time-to-fill is the real ROI metric, and agencies that consistently reduce vacancy periods can save hospitals more than they cost.
3. Check for Technology That Matches Your Workflow
A hidden frustration with many agencies is clunky, outdated technology that slows down hiring. A quality telehealth agency should integrate with your scheduling, compliance, and credentialing systems.
Look for platforms that allow you to see provider availability in real time, confirm credentialing status, and track enrollment progress. Agencies that rely on spreadsheets or manual email threads create bottlenecks and increase the chance of errors.
By contrast, those with modern, AI-supported platforms can quickly surface the right candidates and reduce administrative friction, saving your team time and preventing costly miscommunication.
4. Assess How They Handle Quality vs. Quantity
One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is working with agencies that flood them with resumes instead of delivering carefully vetted candidates.
In telehealth, the quality of each hire matters far more than sheer numbers. Agencies should pre-screen for not only licensure but also telehealth readiness:
- Technical skills
- Adaptability to virtual workflows
- Bedside manner over video
Weak candidates create churn, frustrate patients, and waste onboarding resources.
Ask agencies to explain their screening process and how they ensure candidates are clinically strong and culturally aligned with virtual care delivery.
5. Scrutinize Their Payer Enrollment and Billing Expertise
A credentialed but unenrolled physician is a financial dead end. Too often, agencies leave payer enrollment to the hospital, causing weeks of lost reimbursement opportunities.
Telehealth recruitment firms with deep expertise in payer enrollment stand apart because they deliver candidates who can bill immediately.
Ask whether the agency handles enrollment directly with Medicare, Medicaid, and major private insurers, and how they verify active participation before presenting candidates.
This capability typically marks the difference between seamless onboarding and months of denied claims that drain both revenue and staff morale.
6. Confirm Support for Multi-State Staffing Flexibility
Telehealth thrives on cross-state care, but this is where many agencies fail. If a radiologist or physician is licensed in only one state, scaling coverage becomes a nightmare.
The right agency anticipates this and builds pipelines of multi-state licensed professionals.
That flexibility allows organizations to expand coverage without restarting the licensing process from scratch each time. When interviewing agencies, ask about their ability to supply multi-licensed providers quickly, how they maintain those records, and what strategies they use to prepare candidates for rapid deployment in multiple states.
7. Ask About Post-Placement Monitoring and Retention
Hiring isn’t the finish line. Another common frustration is agencies that disappear after placement, leaving hospitals to discover compliance lapses, burnout, or poor performance months later.
The right telehealth recruitment agency should provide post-placement monitoring, from credential renewals to performance check-ins. They should help reduce turnover and ensure clinicians remain compliant long after day one.
This ongoing support protects you against costly disruptions and builds a more stable workforce. If an agency can’t describe their retention or monitoring processes, you’re likely looking at transactional recruiting rather than a true staffing partner.
Scale Your Telehealth Services with AAG Health
The right telehealth recruitment partner will help you protect patient care, reduce administrative drag, and keep your organization nimble.
The firms on this list all bring something to the table, but the real differentiator is how well a recruiter can balance speed, compliance, and long-term fit without piling extra work on your internal HR team.
That’s where AAG Health stands out.
Unlike firms that simply connect you with available clinicians, AAG takes care of licensing in all 50 states, payer credentialing, privileging, and ongoing provider consistency. That means your team gets fully vetted, telehealth-ready clinicians (physicians, NPs, PAs, or mental health specialists) 55% faster than the industry average, with up to 70% cost savings.
If you’re ready to scale your telehealth program without slowing down your HR team or compromising patient outcomes, get in touch today to see how we can help.
FAQ
1. What do telehealth recruitment agencies actually do?
Telehealth recruitment agencies connect healthcare providers with telehealth professionals like physicians, NPs, PAs, and behavioral health specialists, all while managing the finding and outreach process, licensing, and compliance.
2. How do staffing agencies support remote patient monitoring programs?
Specialized firms recruit clinicians trained to work with remote patient monitoring tools, so patients are tracked effectively and providers get accurate, timely data without straining existing staff capacity.
3. Can AI technology improve the recruitment process for telehealth professionals?
Yes, leading agencies now use AI technology to screen, match, and credential telehealth professionals faster. This cuts time-to-fill while improving the fit between candidates and healthcare providers.
4. Why should healthcare providers use a specialized staffing agency instead of hiring in-house?
Because the right staffing agency already has pre-vetted telehealth professionals and streamlined processes. As a result, healthcare providers avoid months of paperwork delays and can scale coverage quickly without compromising quality care.
