Last updated: 2026-08-24
Honest Taskers, Omega Healthcare, and Sagility lead this year's shortlist of virtual medical assistant companies for radiation oncology, 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 radiation oncology practices the work that matters is obtaining authorization for treatment planning and radiation courses. Below we set out what gets booked between planning and simulation, how many days come off the wait, what the work costs, whether a provider coordinates simulation, and which attendance gap to close first. Of the seven here, three publish 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
- 2Omega Healthcare
- 3Sagility
- 4MRO
- 5WOW Remote Teams
- 6Hello Rache
- 7HelpSquad Health
How we chose the best virtual medical assistant companies for radiation oncology
We ranked these firms on five facts, each read at the provider's own website on August 24, 2026: the scope each offers radiation oncology practices, 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 radiation oncology practices the additional question is whether the assistant can handle coordinating simulation without being taught the basics first.
Best virtual medical assistant companies for radiation oncology 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 |
| Omega Healthcare | Enterprise | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Outsourced revenue cycle | RCM, care coordination, health data curation, payer operations, drug access and affordability; Providers, payers, life sciences and health tech; Boca Raton, Florida headq |
| Sagility | Enterprise | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Outsourced revenue cycle | Claims and membership management, payment integrity, provider network operations, payer clinical services, denial reduction; Payers primarily; states "7 of 10 top health |
| MRO | Release of information + data abstraction | HITRUST CSF certified, SOC 2 | Not publicly listed | Outsourced records service | ROI, data abstraction and quality (formerly Q-Centrix), Prodigy AI abstraction engine, revenue integrity, clinical research enablement, data management consulting, FMLA f |
| WOW Remote Teams | Latin America (region stated, countries not named) | Not publicly listed | Not publicly listed | Placed remote staff | Not publicly listed (priced by seniority, skills, English level and hiring model); Medical and healthcare listed as a role category; Not stated |
| Hello Rache | Virtual medical scribe, receptionist, administrative assistant and optometry assistant roles; dental and veterinary lines | "HIPAA-Trained & Certified", but no BAA terms stated | $9.50 USD per hour | Cancel anytime, no long-term commitment | Scribe, receptionist, admin, optometry; Arizona offices |
| HelpSquad Health | Patient-facing voice work priced separately from back-office digital work (billing, claims, AR, data entry); live chat available | BAA and virtual desktop included in the rate; individual HIPAA certification per assistant | $8–10/hr back office; $10–13/hr patient-facing | 20 hrs/week minimum; 3-month rolling term | US-based and US-managed; $0 upfront, setup and replacement |
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 radiation oncology practices the scope column matters too, because planning and daily treatment scheduling isn't work every provider has done before.
1. Honest Taskers
Best for: radiation oncology practices 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 radiation oncology practices the placed assistant works your time zone inside your own systems on obtaining authorization for treatment planning and radiation courses, coordinating simulation, planning and daily treatment scheduling, and chasing pathology. 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 radiation oncology practices 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. Omega Healthcare
Best for: Radiation oncology practices weighing a revenue cycle option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Outsourced revenue cycleCategory: Revenue cycle
Omega Healthcare is an outsourced revenue cycle firm, which is the right shape when the bottleneck is authorization and claims rather than front-desk cover. Read from its own site: Enterprise; RCM, care coordination, health data curation, payer operations, drug access and affordability; Client types: Providers, payers, life sciences and health tech.
Limitation: scale figures on its own site render as placeholders, so size claims can't be read from source
3. Sagility
Best for: Radiation oncology practices weighing a revenue cycle option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Outsourced revenue cycleCategory: Revenue cycle
Sagility is an outsourced revenue cycle firm, which is the right shape when the bottleneck is authorization and claims rather than front-desk cover. From the company's own material: Enterprise; Claims and membership management, payment integrity, provider network operations, payer clinical services, denial reduction; Client types: Payers primarily.
Limitation: payer-weighted, so a provider organization is buying from the smaller half of its business
4. MRO
Best for: Radiation oncology practices weighing a records and release of information option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: HITRUST CSF certified, SOC 2Model: Outsourced records serviceCategory: Records and release of information
MRO handles release of information and record abstraction, a narrow but real slice of the administrative load in radiation oncology practices. From the company's own material: What it is: Release of information + data abstraction; Verified facts: ROI, data abstraction and quality (formerly Q-Centrix), Prodigy AI abstraction engine, revenue integrity.
Limitation: no pricing; no staff credentials named; delivery location not stated
5. WOW Remote Teams
Best for: Radiation oncology practices weighing a regional staffing option alongside placed assistants.
Pricing: Not publicly listedCompliance: Not publicly listedModel: Placed remote staffCategory: Regional staffing
WOW Remote Teams recruits in one specific region and prices for that region, which is worth knowing before comparing it to a US-managed firm. From the company's own material: Talent location (as stated): Latin America (region stated, countries not named); Published pricing: Not publicly listed (priced by seniority, skills, English level and hiring model).
Limitation: neither countries nor rates are published, and no HIPAA statement appears
6. Hello Rache
Best for: radiation oncology practices testing a remote hire on the lowest published rate with no commitment.
Pricing: $9.50/hrCompliance: HIPAA-trained and certifiedCommitment: Cancel anytimeBase: US offices in Arizona
Hello Rache is the lowest published rate among the firms listed here. It publishes $9.50 an hour on a cancel-anytime basis with no long-term commitment, which makes it a low-risk way to find out whether a remote hire works here at all. Roles cover virtual medical scribe, receptionist, administrative assistant and optometry assistant, with dental and veterinary lines alongside, and it operates US offices in Arizona.
Limitation: it names no Business Associate Agreement anywhere on its pricing page, which is the gap to close in writing first, and its own placement counters render as placeholder zeros.
7. HelpSquad Health
Best for: radiation oncology practices wanting a full published rate card with the BAA and secure desktop built into it.
Pricing: $8–10/hr digital; $10–13/hr voiceCompliance: BAA and virtual desktop includedCommitment: 20 hrs/wk, 3-month termSetup: $0 upfront
HelpSquad Health publishes the only full rate card in this market. It is the only firm in this pool publishing a full rate card, separating back-office digital work at $8 to $10 an hour from patient-facing voice work at $10 to $13, with shared live chat from $185 to $600 a month. The rate includes a HIPAA BAA and a virtual desktop, and it states individual HIPAA certification for every assistant. It is US-based and US-managed with $0 upfront, implementation and replacement costs.
Limitation: the 20 hours a week minimum on a 3-month rolling term is the least flexible published commitment here, so it suits a settled need rather than a trial.
What does a radiation oncology virtual medical assistant book between planning and simulation?
The simulation itself, with authorization for planning and the radiation course cleared ahead of it. 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 many days does a virtual medical assistant take off the wait before radiation starts?
As many as the authorization adds, and in this specialty a delay postpones cancer treatment rather than payment, 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.
- Authorization delaying treatment start. A delay postpones cancer treatment rather than just payment. Ask for turnaround targets, escalation routes and who writes appeals.
- 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?
Three firms publish a rate here. Honest Taskers is $10.00 to $12.65 an hour with no weekly minimum. Hello Rache is $9.50 an hour, cancel anytime. HelpSquad Health is $8 to $10 for back-office work and $10 to $13 for patient-facing, with a BAA and virtual desktop included but a 20 hours a week minimum on a rolling 3-month term. The other four on this list, Omega Healthcare, Sagility, MRO and WOW Remote Teams, quote on request. For radiation oncology practices the unit worth computing is cost per course authorized and treatment started on time, 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.
Can the virtual medical assistant company coordinate a simulation appointment?
Ask how it sequences simulation against planning, 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.
- Named turnaround and escalation. Ask for the authorization turnaround target and escalation path, since delay here is clinical.
- Named systems experience. Ask which practice management and EHR systems the specific assistant has worked in, and who trains them on yours.
Which radiation oncology attendance gap should a virtual medical assistant close first?
A missed fraction, because a course interrupted partway is worse than one that started late.
- Measure one month of days from decision to treatment start and treatment attendance rate 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 radiation oncology practices, and where the compliance obligation begins.
Speak with Honest Taskers about staffing radiation oncology practices.