Last updated: 2026-08-24
Honest Taskers, Vivo Care Solutions, and Wellbox lead this year's shortlist of virtual medical assistant companies for accountable care organizations, seven firms ranked on published pricing, the Business Associate Agreement position each states in its own words, commitment terms, and what each publishes about itself. For accountable care organizations the work that matters is running care gap outreach across an attributed population. Below we set out whether care gap outreach can run across an attributed population, how a stale list is avoided, what the work costs, whether a provider refreshes attribution each period, and which gap to close first. Of the seven here, one publishes a rate and two state a signed BAA, and those two columns narrow the list faster than any claim about quality.
Disclosure: Honest Taskers publishes this list and appears at position 1. We're judged on the same five published criteria as every other company here.
At a glance
- 1Honest Taskers
- 2Vivo Care Solutions
- 3Wellbox
- 4Carenet Healthcare
- 5Richter
- 6MEDVA
- 7My Mountain Mover
How we chose the best virtual medical assistant companies for accountable care organizations
We ranked these firms on five facts, each read at the provider's own website on August 24, 2026: the scope each offers accountable care organizations, the HIPAA and Business Associate Agreement position in the firm's exact wording, published pricing, commitment terms, and the verified detail each publishes. We ignored claims about screening quality and talent percentiles, because every firm in this market makes them and none is checkable from outside. What's checkable is what a firm will commit to. For accountable care organizations the additional question is whether the assistant can handle scheduling annual wellness visits and preventative screening without being taught the basics first.
Best virtual medical assistant companies for accountable care organizations compared
The table ranks all 7 on the same columns, Honest Taskers first because we publish the list. Facts were read on August 24, 2026 and change often, so treat them as a starting point, not a quote.
| Company | What the firm offers | HIPAA / BAA as stated | Published pricing | Model | Notable verified facts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honest Taskers | Hourly placed staff working in your own systems across reception, intake, records, prior authorization, billing support and patient outreach | BAA when PHI is accessed; HIPAA compliance verified by Accountable | $10.00–$12.65/hr | Hourly, no minimum; two-week trial | Licensed nurses and physicians in pool; 99.6% average monthly retention |
| Vivo Care Solutions | RPM + CCM + clinical monitoring, platform + staff | HIPAA-compliant practices across platform; SOC 2 examination | Not publicly listed | Managed clinical program | US-based nurses for RPM monitoring and CCM care management; HIPAA-compliant practices across platform, devices and clinical services; independent SOC 2 examination; buyer |
| Wellbox | Nurse-delivered chronic care management | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Managed clinical program | Monthly nurse interactions for risk identification, CCM, patient engagement, preventative care coordination; reports decreasing participants' per-beneficiary-per-month Me |
| Carenet Healthcare | Virtual care and nurse triage at scale | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Managed clinical program | Combines patient-engagement staff and registered nurses with physician e-consults for a triaged virtual care experience; offers after-hours clinical support and nurse tri |
| Richter | LTPAC performance advisors: outsourced RCM + clinical consulting | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Outsourced services and consulting | settings: skilled nursing & LTC, home health, hospice, senior living; outsourced revenue cycle management, accounting and controller services, Medicaid eligibility, resid |
| MEDVA | Receptionists, administrative assistants, licensed medical assistants, certified scribes, billing assistants and RPM; bilingual Spanish | HIPAA training validated by a third party (Compliancy Group), but no BAA wording | Not publicly listed | No long-term commitment to begin; free replacement | 1,000+ practices: 400+ medicine, 200+ surgical, 290+ dental, 75+ PT |
| My Mountain Mover | Receptionist, scribe, administrative assistant and billing assistant roles across 50+ specialties, plus dental lines | Signed BAA is part of the contract for all healthcare clients | Not publicly listed | Hired within 7–14 days | 1000+ practices; 1600+ VAs; 50+ specialties; staff experienced in major EHRs |
Read the compliance and pricing columns together. The firms that publish a rate aren't the ones with the weakest compliance position, which is the usual assumption, and several firms publish neither a price nor commitment terms nor a Business Associate Agreement, which means three separate negotiations before you can compare them to anything. For accountable care organizations the scope column matters too, because chasing records after hospital admissions and emergency visits isn't work every provider has done before.
1. Honest Taskers
Best for: accountable care organizations that want a published hourly rate, a signed BAA and third-party verified compliance with no minimum.
Pricing: $10.00–$12.65/hrCompliance: HIPAA verified by Accountable; BAACommitment: Hourly, no minimumFirst hire: Two-week working trial
Honest Taskers is where this list starts because the compliance and pricing questions are answered in public rather than in a quote. For accountable care organizations the placed assistant works your time zone inside your own systems on running care gap outreach across an attributed population, scheduling annual wellness visits and preventative screening, chasing records after hospital admissions and emergency visits, and supporting quality measure documentation and data collection. Staff are trained on HIPAA and data privacy under a dedicated compliance officer, a Business Associate Agreement is signed before anyone touches protected health information, and HIPAA compliance is verified by Accountable rather than asserted internally. The talent pool includes licensed nurses and physicians. Rates run $10.00 to $12.65 an hour depending on role, background, schedule and location, billed hourly with no weekly minimum, and the first hire comes with a two-week working trial. Honest Taskers reports 99.6% average monthly retention. See the multi-purpose virtual medical assistant service for role detail.
Limitation: staff work remotely and administratively, so clinical assessment, treatment decisions and every clinical conversation in accountable care organizations stays with your own clinicians, and Honest Taskers describes its security environment as SOC 2 audit ready rather than holding a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification of the kind Staffingly and MyOutDesk publish.
2. Vivo Care Solutions
Best for: Accountable care organizations weighing a care management option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: HIPAA-compliant practices across platform; SModel: Managed clinical programCategory: Care management
Vivo Care Solutions supplies clinical care management rather than administrative staff, so it answers a different half of the problem than a placed assistant does. On its own site: What it is: RPM + CCM + clinical monitoring, platform + staff; Key verified facts: US-based nurses for RPM monitoring and CCM care management; HIPAA-compliant practices across platform.
Limitation: no pricing; own counters render as placeholders
3. Wellbox
Best for: Accountable care organizations weighing a care management option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Managed clinical programCategory: Care management
Wellbox supplies clinical care management rather than administrative staff, so it answers a different half of the problem than a placed assistant does. From the company's own material: What it is: Nurse-delivered chronic care management; Verified facts: Monthly nurse interactions for risk identification, CCM, patient engagement, preventative care coordination.
Limitation: no staff credentials, no pricing, and no HIPAA or BAA statement on the page
4. Carenet Healthcare
Best for: Accountable care organizations weighing a care management option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Managed clinical programCategory: Care management
Carenet Healthcare supplies clinical care management rather than administrative staff, so it answers a different half of the problem than a placed assistant does. What the site publishes: What it is: Virtual care and nurse triage at scale; Verified facts: Combines patient-engagement staff and registered nurses with physician e-consults for a triaged virtual care experience.
Limitation: its own outcome figures are company-reported, and no pricing is published
5. Richter
Best for: Accountable care organizations weighing a post-acute specialist option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Outsourced services and consultingCategory: Post-acute specialist
Richter is a post-acute specialist rather than a staffing agency, which is why it belongs on a list aimed at accountable care organizations. Its own pages state: What it is: LTPAC performance advisors: outsourced RCM + clinical consulting; Verified facts: settings: skilled nursing & LTC, home health, hospice, senior living.
Limitation: no pricing, no compliance statement; consulting-and-outsourcing rather than placed staff
6. MEDVA
Best for: accountable care organizations wanting the largest verified practice base and certified scribes.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Training validated by Compliancy GroupCommitment: None to beginScale: 1,000+ practices
MEDVA brings the largest verified practice base here. Its scale is the strongest verified claim in the pool: 1,000 or more practices, comprising 400 or more medicine clinics, 200 or more surgical practices, 290 or more dental and orthodontic offices and 75 or more physical therapy and chiropractic clinics. Staff include licensed medical assistants and certified medical scribes, screening is multi-stage with competency assessments, HIPAA and cybersecurity training is validated through third-party partner Compliancy Group, and a replacement is placed at no additional cost.
Limitation: no pricing is published, and its compliance position is third-party validated training rather than a stated Business Associate Agreement, so ask for the BAA explicitly.
7. My Mountain Mover
Best for: accountable care organizations that want a signed BAA as standard contract terms and breadth across specialties.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Signed BAA in every healthcare contractCommitment: Not publicly listedSpeed: Hired in 7–14 days
My Mountain Mover settles the compliance question in the contract rather than in negotiation. It gives the clearest contractual answer here, stating that a signed HIPAA Business Associate Agreement is part of the contract provided to all healthcare clients rather than something you negotiate. Talent is described as pre-trained healthcare staff experienced in major EHR systems such as Epic and athenahealth, and it reports 1000 or more practices served, 1600 or more pre-trained assistants and coverage of 50 or more specialties, with hiring completed in 7 to 14 days.
Limitation: it publishes no pricing at all, and its claim that practices save up to 70% on overhead carries no published methodology.
Can a virtual medical assistant run care gap outreach across an attributed population?
Yes, plus the annual wellness visits and preventative screening that close those gaps. It's all outbound work. The cost gap is large: a medical secretary or administrative assistant earned a median $22.08 an hour, about $45,930 a year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 wage data for secretaries and administrative assistants, before benefits, payroll tax and a desk, against published remote rates from $9 an hour. Keep in the building whatever genuinely needs a person there: greeting patients, physical specimens and mail, and anything requiring a wet signature. The practical route is to start with the single task costing you the most rather than defining a whole role upfront, because the job's easier to scope once somebody's doing it. Hourly and cancel-anytime arrangements suit that far better than a quarterly minimum. For the task-level breakdown, see virtual medical assistant duties.
How does a virtual medical assistant avoid working a stale attribution list?
By refreshing it each period, because attributed populations shift and outreach against an old list wastes the hours you paid for, settled with four contractual points.
- BAA versus HIPAA training. A Business Associate Agreement puts breach liability in writing. "HIPAA-trained" describes a person who sat a course. Five firms in this market state a BAA; the rest state training. Ask which you are getting, in writing.
- Attribution lists change. Attributed populations shift between periods, and outreach against a stale list wastes hours. Confirm how often the list refreshes and who maintains it.
- Commitment before certainty. Terms run from a Flexi Plan with no minimum hours to a 3-month minimum at 20 hours a week. Match the term to how sure you are.
- Access scope. Grant the minimum systems access each task needs and review it quarterly and on every staff change.
- Time zone against your day. Ask for the shift pattern rather than the delivery country, which matters most where staff are offshore.
How much does a virtual medical assistant cost?
One firm publishes a rate here. Honest Taskers is $10.00 to $12.65 an hour with no weekly minimum. The other six on this list, Vivo Care Solutions, Wellbox, Carenet Healthcare, Richter, MEDVA and My Mountain Mover, quote on request. For accountable care organizations the unit worth computing is cost per care gap closed and patient booked, which you can work out from a two-week sample rather than from a quote. Rates were checked on August 24, 2026 and change often. For rate context, see how much a virtual medical assistant costs in 2026.
Does the virtual medical assistant company refresh the attribution list each period?
Ask who sends it and when, plus a signed BAA, a published rate and an exit you can use.
- A signed Business Associate Agreement. Five firms in this market state one. Get the document before access, not after the first shift.
- A published rate. An undisclosed rate means you negotiate compliance terms alongside the money.
- An exit you can use. Cancel-anytime, no lock-in, month-to-month and a no-minimum Flexi Plan all exist here.
- Outreach capacity against list size. Ask how many completed contacts one assistant achieves in a day, then size against your gap list.
- Named systems experience. Ask which practice management and EHR systems the specific assistant has worked in, and who trains them on yours.
Which ACO care gap should a virtual medical assistant close first?
Post-discharge follow-up, because it's the gap with a readmission behind it as well as a measure.
- Measure one month of care gap closure rate and post-discharge follow-ups booked so you have a baseline to judge against.
- List the five tasks you would hand over in week one, with the system each requires.
- Mark which touch protected health information, which decides whether a BAA is mandatory.
- Shortlist on stated BAA, published pricing and exit terms before reading any quality claims.
- Review at four weeks against the baseline rather than against an impression, then widen scope.
For a fuller hiring walkthrough, read how to hire a virtual medical assistant.
Methodology and sources
We read each company's own website on August 24, 2026, recording the scope offered, the HIPAA and Business Associate Agreement position in each firm's exact wording, published pricing, commitment terms and the verified facts each publishes. We set aside claims about screening quality and talent percentiles, because every firm makes them and none is checkable from outside; where such figures appear above they are labelled as the company's own claim. Wage context is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Business Associate Agreement obligations are set by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. Where a company published no figure we marked it "not publicly listed" rather than guessing; practice counts, retention rates and savings claims are company-reported and we did not audit them. Portiva, Pearl Talent and Wishup were excluded because their sites refuse automated requests, and Phoenix Virtual Solutions was excluded because its domain now returns an expiration notice.
Related staffing guides
The fastest way to narrow this market is to decide which tasks touch patient data, because that single question removes several firms. Our explainer on what a virtual medical assistant is covers the scope a remote hire can own for accountable care organizations, and where the compliance obligation begins.
Speak with Honest Taskers about staffing accountable care organizations.