Telehealth and healthcare
The Best Telehealth and Healthcare Marketing Agencies
Updated September 6, 2026 · 7 agencies · How we build these lists
The short answer
Telehealth marketing agencies divide by delivery model. Accelerated Digital Media has the deepest named telehealth roster and runs HIPAA compliance audits on tracking. Cardinal Digital Marketing fits multi-location provider groups and health systems. Intrepy fits specialty practices and physician groups. Sweat Pants Agency fits DTC telehealth and subscription care brands. First Page Sage builds organic and AI search visibility. Real Chemistry serves pharma and regulated life sciences. Avenue Z pairs PR with AI search.
A national telehealth subscription, a local medical practice, a healthcare staffing company, and a pharmaceutical brand have almost nothing in common operationally, even though all four are called healthcare marketing. The regulatory environment, the measurement constraints, and the definition of a conversion all change between them. Ask each agency for experience relevant to your specific delivery model, patient journey, and compliance requirements.
At a glance
| Agency | Best for |
|---|---|
| Accelerated Digital Media | DTC telehealth brands that need HIPAA-safe measurement |
| Cardinal Digital Marketing | Multi-location provider groups and health systems |
| Intrepy Healthcare Marketing | Specialty practices and physician groups |
| Sweat Pants Agency | DTC telehealth and subscription care brands |
| First Page Sage | Healthcare brands building organic and AI search visibility |
| Real Chemistry | Pharmaceutical brands and regulated life sciences |
| Avenue Z | Healthcare brands prioritizing earned media and AI search |
Agency profiles
Accelerated Digital Media
Best for DTC telehealth brands that need HIPAA-safe measurement
Chicago, IL
Accelerated Digital Media has the deepest publicly named telehealth roster here, including Keeps, Talkspace, Nurx, LifeMD, Grow Therapy, and NOCD, and it runs HIPAA compliance audits on tracking setups. That last point addresses the specific failure that breaks telehealth measurement, where standard pixel implementations leak protected health information.
Cardinal Digital Marketing
Best for multi-location provider groups and health systems
Atlanta, GA
Cardinal's specialty is capacity-driven marketing: matching patient demand to actual provider availability across locations, which is the constraint that separates provider networks from ecommerce. Named work includes ATI Physical Therapy, Southern Veterinary Partners, and Peak Dental. It has joined Power Digital as its healthcare division.
Intrepy Healthcare Marketing
Best for specialty practices and physician groups
Atlanta, GA
Intrepy works at the practice and physician level across more than 40 medical subspecialties, and manages physician listings across directories, which drives a meaningful share of patient search that most agencies ignore. Named work includes Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance and MedVA.
Sweat Pants Agency
Best for DTC telehealth and subscription care brands
Nashville, TN
Sweat Pants Agency works in telehealth and GLP-1 adjacent categories with a subscription lens, reporting a 9x revenue increase over 30 days for TrimRx through email and SMS. Its strength is the recurring revenue model rather than provider network operations, which is the relevant shape for a national DTC care brand.
First Page Sage
Best for healthcare brands building organic and AI search visibility
First Page Sage works the organic and generative engine side, ranking for the questions patients ask before they are ready to act and increasingly being cited by AI assistants answering them. Healthcare named work includes Dignity Health. Suited to long consideration cycles with real trust barriers.
Real Chemistry
Best for pharmaceutical brands and regulated life sciences
Real Chemistry operates at a different altitude: pharmaceutical launches, medical affairs, medical education, and communications that must clear medical, legal, and regulatory review. Twenty-five years of experience in that environment is the qualification.
Worth knowing: Not shaped for a DTC telehealth brand buying paid social.
Avenue Z
Best for healthcare brands prioritizing earned media and AI search
New York, Miami, and Orlando
Avenue Z combines PR and communications with AI search optimization, which matters in a category where patients research extensively and third-party credibility carries more weight than advertising. Named healthcare and consumer work includes Cocokind and Better.
What we compared
- Experience with your specific delivery model: DTC subscription, provider network, practice, or pharma
- HIPAA-aware tracking and measurement, and whether the agency audits it
- How conversions are defined when protected health information cannot flow to ad platforms
- Regulatory and compliance review experience where medical, legal, and regulatory approval applies
- Named healthcare clients in a comparable model, not just the category
- Whether patient acquisition is matched to actual provider or fulfillment capacity
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Frequently asked questions
- Can telehealth companies run Facebook and Google ads under HIPAA?
- Yes, but the tracking has to be configured so protected health information never reaches the ad platform. That generally means removing or hashing identifiers, avoiding conversion events that reveal a condition or treatment, using server-side tracking with filtered payloads, and signing business associate agreements where a vendor qualifies. A standard out-of-the-box pixel implementation on a telehealth site is frequently non-compliant, which is why tracking audits matter more here than in other categories.
- How much does a telehealth marketing agency cost?
- DTC telehealth brands typically see retainers from around $5,000 to $15,000 per month for paid media, often structured as a base fee or a percentage of ad spend, whichever is greater. Provider groups and multi-location practices are usually priced per location or as a flat program fee. Pharma and regulated life sciences engagements operate at a materially higher level.
- What is the difference between telehealth marketing and healthcare marketing?
- Telehealth marketing is generally national, subscription or recurring, and measured like DTC ecommerce with regulatory constraints layered on. Broader healthcare marketing frequently means local patient acquisition for physical locations, where the constraint is appointment capacity in a geographic radius rather than scaling national spend. The agencies that do each well are largely different firms.
- What should a telehealth brand ask an agency about compliance?
- Ask whether they have audited a HIPAA-constrained tracking setup before and what they found. Ask how they define and pass conversions without transmitting protected health information. Ask whether they will sign a business associate agreement. Ask how they handle creative review against advertising rules for regulated health claims. Vague reassurance on any of these is a meaningful signal.