For the first time, a comprehensive national dataset covering all four U.S. Census regions and every age group has confirmed what clinicians and telehealth providers have seen building for years: mental health is not merely a leading reason Americans use telehealth. It is the dominant one by a significant margin in every single demographic and geographic category.
FAIR Health, the independent nonprofit that maintains one of the nation's largest repositories of private health insurance claims, launched its inaugural Quarterly Telehealth Regional Tracker on June 15, 2026, with data covering January through March 2026. The headline finding is stark: nationally, 52.1% of patients with a telehealth claim received a mental health diagnosis in the first quarter of 2026, and mental health conditions ranked as the top diagnostic category not only nationally and in every region, but across every age group, including children ages 0 to 9.
