Last updated: 2026-08-21
Honest Taskers, Helpware CX, and HelpSquad Health lead this year's shortlist of patient support partners for digital health companies, seven firms ranked on how they carry a telehealth or virtual care platform's member-facing load, from virtual-visit scheduling and member onboarding to eligibility questions, prescription refill requests, and the triage handoffs that keep a clinician's calendar full. The buyer here is a product company, not a clinic, so the comparison turns on published rates, whether the firm will sign a Business Associate Agreement, and how fast a team can scale when a new payer contract lands.
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
- 2Helpware CX
- 3HelpSquad Health
- 4Peak Support
- 5TaskUs
- 6Simply Contact
- 7SupportYourApp
How we chose the best patient support partners for digital health companies
We ranked these firms on five facts, each read at the provider's own website on August 21, 2026. Those facts are whether the firm names telehealth, virtual care, or patient-facing platforms among its clients, published pricing, delivery locations and language coverage, the engagement model and any minimum commitment, and the compliance it names, specifically whether HIPAA and a Business Associate Agreement appear at all. That last point separates this list more than anything else. A general customer experience firm can run your support queue well and still have no HIPAA posture, which is fine for a wellness app that never touches clinical data and a blocker the moment a nurse reads a chart note. Blank facts read "not publicly listed" instead of a guess.
Best patient support partners for digital health companies compared
The table ranks all 7 on the same columns, Honest Taskers first because we publish the list. Facts were read August 21, 2026 and change often, so treat them as a starting point, not a quote.
| Company | What it supports | Delivery locations | Published pricing | Engagement model | HIPAA and compliance named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honest Taskers | Placed staff for visit scheduling, member onboarding, intake, refill requests, records requests | US clients; recruiting in the Philippines, Latin America, India and Pakistan | $10.00–$12.65/hr | Staffing by the hour, your tools | HIPAA-trained; compliance verified by Accountable; BAA when PHI is accessed |
| Helpware CX | Patient support, scheduling, insurance verification, billing questions, prescription support, member services | 19 locations including the USA, Mexico, the Philippines, Ukraine, Georgia and Uganda | $8–$15/hr (stated range) | Managed team, hourly | HIPAA; SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001; GDPR; PCI DSS |
| HelpSquad Health | Front desk, scheduling, intake by voice; billing, claims, AR and data entry on the digital side | US-managed; assistants screened for US-patient communication | $8–$10/hr back office; $10–$13/hr voice; chat from $185/mo | Managed assistants, 20 hrs/wk minimum | HIPAA BAA plus virtual desktop included; per-assistant HIPAA certification |
| Peak Support | Customer experience, technical support, trust and safety, back office | The Philippines, the United States, Colombia, Eastern Europe | Not publicly listed | Managed team | States HIPAA compliance; names SOC 2 and PCI |
| TaskUs | Care navigation, membership inquiries, refills, onboarding and engagement, prior authorization, moderation | Not publicly listed on its healthcare page | Not publicly listed | Managed team, enterprise | Not publicly listed on its healthcare page |
| Simply Contact | Customer care, help desk, back office, trust and safety, multilingual support | Five delivery centers in Europe; operations in eight countries | Not publicly listed; prices per resolved contact | Outcome-based, per resolved contact | States HIPAA compliance; PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certified; ISO 27701 |
| SupportYourApp | Help desk, technical support, live chat, phone answering, AI-assisted support | Stated coverage across 30 countries and 60 languages | Not publicly listed | Managed team | PCI DSS Level 1; ISO 27001:2022; GDPR; CCPA. No HIPAA named |
Two facts do most of the work in this table. Only two firms publish a rate, so budgeting the rest takes a quote. And only four of the seven name HIPAA at all, with one, SupportYourApp, holding a strong security posture that says nothing about protected health information. For a digital health company that means the shortlist narrows fast once you decide whether your support agents will see clinical data.
1. Honest Taskers
Best for: digital health teams that want named people inside their own tools and time zone, hired by the hour, with clinically trained staff available for triage-adjacent work.
Pricing: $10.00–$12.65/hrLocation: US clients; PH, LatAm, India and Pakistan recruitingModel: Staffing by the hourFirst hire: Two-week working trial
Honest Taskers places individual staff rather than selling a managed queue, which suits a digital health company at the stage where support is still product work. The same person handles virtual-visit scheduling, member onboarding, insurance and eligibility questions, prescription refill requests, and records requests inside your own stack, so they learn your product rather than working from a script written by a vendor. Candidates are trained on HIPAA and data privacy under a dedicated compliance officer, work in your time zone, and a Business Associate Agreement is signed before anyone touches protected health information, with HIPAA compliance verified by Accountable. The talent pool includes licensed nurses and physicians, which matters when a member question is close to clinical. Rates begin around $10 an hour and reach about $12.65 depending on role, background, schedule, and location, and the first hire comes with a two-week working trial. Honest Taskers reports 99.6% average monthly retention, so the person who learned your platform stays on it. See the telehealth medical assistant service for role detail.
Limitation: this is staffing rather than a managed contact center, so it does not come with 24-hour coverage, a service level agreement, or a SOC 2 report to send your enterprise buyers.
2. Helpware CX
Best for: digital health companies that need a full audited compliance stack and a published rate in the same conversation.
Pricing: $8–$15/hrLocation: 19 locations across four continentsModel: Managed team, hourlyTrial: Not publicly listed
Helpware CX publishes the most of any firm here, and for a platform in an enterprise sales cycle that is the argument. It states an hourly range of $8 to $15 for healthcare work and names SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS, describing all of them as third-party audited, with business associate agreements, role-based access to protected health information, and audit logging on regulated workflows. Its named client types are exactly this list's buyers: telehealth platforms, patient engagement platforms, remote care organizations, health plans, and hospital networks. Support covers patient support, appointment scheduling, insurance verification, billing and claims questions, prescription support, and member services, staffed from 19 locations that include the United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Ukraine, Georgia, and Uganda. Company-reported figures include 90% customer satisfaction, a 98% quality assurance score, an error rate under 2% on patient records, and an average client partnership of five or more years.
Limitation: healthcare is one industry inside a general customer experience business, so product knowledge depends on your onboarding rather than on prior clinical exposure.
3. HelpSquad Health
Best for: early-stage digital health companies that want a BAA and a US-managed team without a large monthly commitment.
Pricing: $8–$13/hr by roleLocation: US-managedModel: Managed assistantsTrial: Not publicly listed
HelpSquad Health is the most transparent option at small volume. Back-office work runs $8 to $10 an hour and patient-facing voice work $10 to $13, with shared live chat coverage from $185 to $600 a month for teams that only need chat, and it states $0 upfront cost, $0 implementation fees, and $0 replacement costs. Every rate includes a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement and a HIPAA virtual desktop, and the company says every assistant holds individual HIPAA certification, which is a stronger claim than most firms make. Voice work covers front desk, scheduling, and intake; the digital side covers billing, claims, accounts receivable, data entry, admin, research, and scribe support. It describes itself as a US-based, US-managed company whose assistants are screened for clear communication with US patients.
Limitation: engagements start at 20 hours a week per assistant on a three-month initial agreement that renews in three-month increments, so it is not a spin-up-and-stop arrangement.
4. Peak Support
Best for: digital health companies that need technical support and trust and safety alongside member questions, with nearshore daytime coverage.
Pricing: Not publicly listedLocation: PH, US, Colombia, Eastern EuropeModel: Managed teamTrial: Not publicly listed
Peak Support is the closest thing here to a support partner built for a software company that happens to work in health. It names both healthcare and software and technology among the industries it serves, and its service list runs from customer experience and technical support through trust and safety, back office, sales and marketing, accounting, and technology and artificial intelligence work. Trust and safety matters more than it sounds for a digital health platform with member forums, coaching messages, or user-generated content. The firm states PCI and SOC 2 compliance and references HIPAA, and delivers from the Philippines, the United States, Colombia, and Eastern Europe. Company-reported hiring and quality figures include selecting one applicant in thirty, an average agent tenure of eight years, a 95% average quality score, and a five-year average client tenure.
Limitation: no pricing is published, and its HIPAA posture is stated rather than documented with a named certification the way its other controls are.
5. TaskUs
Best for: funded digital health platforms at enterprise volume that need clinical-adjacent operations and content moderation from one vendor.
Pricing: Not publicly listedLocation: Not publicly listedModel: Managed team, enterpriseTrial: Not publicly listed
TaskUs describes the widest health-specific scope on this list, and its named client types read like a digital health investor's portfolio: telehealth platforms, mental health platforms, and specialty and wellness platforms alongside payers and providers. Member and patient support covers care navigation, testing support, membership inquiries, medication questions and disputes, post-visit follow-up, billing, enrollment, eligibility, provider identification, and prescription refills. Provider and payer work adds prior authorization, insurance verification, claims and billing, provider credentialing, care management, and utilization management. On the product side it also runs user onboarding and engagement, technical support, data capture and tagging, community moderation, and analytics, which is a genuinely useful combination for a platform whose support and content operations overlap.
Limitation: its healthcare page names no certification, no delivery location, and no pricing, so due diligence has to happen entirely in the sales process.
6. Simply Contact
Best for: digital health companies with European members or multilingual coverage needs, that would rather pay per resolved contact than per seat.
Pricing: Per resolved contactLocation: Five European delivery centersModel: Outcome-basedTrial: Not publicly listed
Simply Contact is the only firm here whose stated commercial model is outcome-based rather than headcount-based, framed on its site as paying for outcomes rather than headcount with per-resolved-contact pricing. For a digital health company with unpredictable seasonal volume, that shifts the risk. It certifies PCI DSS and ISO 27001, states compliance with ISO 27701 for privacy, and lists HIPAA as fully compliant, and it names healthcare, SaaS, information technology, and fintech among its industries. Company-reported figures include 850 or more agents, more than 10 million requests a year, 30 or more languages, a 93% average customer satisfaction score, a 99.9% uptime service level agreement, founding in 2013, and an average team tenure of 3.4 years in a client's vertical, with a four to six week training runway.
Limitation: all five delivery centers are in Europe, so US evening and overnight coverage needs planning, and no rate is published.
7. SupportYourApp
Best for: digital health companies whose support queue is product and account questions only, with no access to clinical records.
Pricing: Not publicly listedLocation: 30 countries, 60 languagesModel: Managed teamTrial: Not publicly listed
SupportYourApp is a software support specialist first, and that shapes where it fits. It runs help desk, technical support, live chat, call center, and phone answering services with an artificial-intelligence layer that keeps a person in the loop, and its named industries are eCommerce, fintech, SaaS, travel, business-to-business, and information technology. It certifies PCI DSS Level 1 and ISO 27001:2022 and names GDPR and CCPA compliance, reports operating since 2010 across 30 countries and 60 languages, and lists named clients including Mastercard, Calm, and MacPaw. For a wellness or coaching product whose agents handle subscriptions, device questions, and app troubleshooting rather than charts, that is a strong match.
Limitation: healthcare is not among its named industries and it names no HIPAA posture or Business Associate Agreement, so any workflow touching protected health information needs a separate conversation before you shortlist it.
Should a digital health team hire in-house, outsource support, or automate it?
Hire in-house while support is still teaching you about the product. Early member conversations are research, and handing them to a vendor on day one loses that. Once the questions repeat, the economics change: a medical records specialist earned about $51,140 a year, roughly $24.59 an hour before benefits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 wage data for medical records specialists, against roughly $8 to $15 an hour for placed or offshore staff. Outsource to a managed team when volume is spiky or coverage has to run beyond one time zone, which is where a per-resolved-contact model like Simply Contact's or a large managed operation like TaskUs earns its margin. Automate the deflectable tail, since appointment reminders, password resets, and status lookups are pattern work. What automation should not touch is anything where a member is describing a symptom, because a wrong routing decision there is a clinical risk rather than a support metric. For a fuller view of the work itself, see virtual medical assistant duties and responsibilities.
What are the risks of outsourcing member support at a digital health company?
The risks sit in three places: the compliance paperwork, the clinical boundary, and what your enterprise customers will ask you during procurement.
- No BAA, no PHI. Confirm the Business Associate Agreement before scoping the queue, since three firms here either name no HIPAA posture or state it without documentation.
- The clinical boundary. Write down exactly what an agent may not answer and where a symptom description escalates, because an unlicensed agent giving clinical guidance is a different category of problem from a slow reply.
- Your own procurement exposure. If you sell to health systems or payers, your vendor's certifications land in your security questionnaire, so a partner with no named report becomes your gap.
- Data location. Get the delivery country in writing and check it against your privacy notice and any state or member commitments you have made.
- Scale timing. Ask how long a new cohort takes from signed contract to live, since Simply Contact publishes a four to six week training runway and most firms publish nothing.
How is digital health patient and member support priced?
Three shapes exist here. Hourly is the transparent one: Helpware CX states $8 to $15 an hour for healthcare work, HelpSquad Health publishes $8 to $10 for back office and $10 to $13 for patient-facing voice, and Honest Taskers publishes $10.00 to $12.65 depending on role, background, schedule, and location. Flat monthly plans appear for narrow scopes, such as HelpSquad Health's shared live chat from $185 to $600 a month. Outcome-based pricing, charged per resolved contact, is what Simply Contact leads with, and it suits volume you cannot forecast. Peak Support, TaskUs, and SupportYourApp are quote-only. The practical comparison is cost per resolved contact, which you can compute from an hourly rate once you know handle time, so ask every firm for both the rate and the expected contacts per agent hour. Rates were checked August 2026 and change often. For wider rate context, see how much a virtual medical assistant costs in 2026.
What should a digital health company look for in a support partner?
A signed BAA, documented security, coverage that matches your members, and a scaling path cover most of it.
- HIPAA in writing, with a BAA. Four of seven firms here name it. Do not assume a strong security posture implies a health one.
- Certifications you can forward. A SOC 2 Type II report or ISO 27001 certificate shortens your own enterprise sales cycle.
- Coverage that matches your member base. Match time zones and languages to where members are, and check whether Spanish-language voice coverage is included or extra.
- Product access, not just phone access. Confirm agents can work inside your admin tools and your electronic health record. Our guide on whether a virtual assistant can work in your EHR covers the access questions to ask.
- A stated ramp time. Ask how many weeks from contract to a productive agent, and what happens to that timeline when you double the team.
How do you start with a digital health support partner?
Start by splitting your queue by whether the agent needs clinical data, because that single line determines which firms are eligible.
- Categorise your contact types and mark which ones require access to protected health information.
- Decide whether you want placed staff inside your tools or a managed queue with a service level agreement.
- Shortlist against HIPAA posture first, then price, since the reverse order wastes calls.
- Get the Business Associate Agreement and any security report before granting system access.
- Pilot on one contact type, measure first-response time and escalation rate against your own baseline, then widen scope.
For the full hiring path on the staffing route, read how to hire a virtual medical assistant.
Methodology and sources
We read each company's own website on August 21, 2026, recording named client types, published pricing, delivery locations and language coverage, engagement model and minimums, and stated compliance including HIPAA and any Business Associate Agreement. Wage context is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for medical records specialists. Where a company didn't publish a fact, we marked it "not publicly listed"; self-stated figures such as satisfaction scores, agent counts, and tenure are labeled company-reported and were not independently audited. Rates were captured as dated points, not permanent quotes.
Related telehealth staffing guides
If you're weighing placed staff against a managed queue, the operational detail matters more than the model name. Our piece on how virtual assistants keep telehealth practices running walks through the day-to-day work behind a virtual visit, from confirmations and intake to post-visit follow-up, which is the clearest way to scope what you need covered.
Speak with Honest Taskers about staffing your member support team.