On June 15, 2026, FAIR Health — the independent nonprofit that maintains one of the nation's largest repositories of private health insurance claims — released the inaugural edition of its Quarterly Telehealth Regional Tracker. The data, covering January through March 2026, contain a finding that has no precedent in the tracker's history: mental health conditions ranked as the top telehealth diagnostic category nationally, in every U.S. Census region, and in every single age group.
Nationally, 52.1% of patients who had a telehealth claim in Q1 2026 received a mental health diagnosis. That figure — more than half of all telehealth patients — makes mental health not just a major telehealth use case but the defining one. "Mental health conditions constituted the top diagnostic category nationally and in every region, both overall and in every age group," FAIR Health stated in its press release.
