Provider operations
State coverage, license checks, and clinician support.
2026 Industry Report · Telebehavioral Care
Clinician networks are growing. Compliance work is piling up.
Healthcare ranked highest in the survey on five contractor pain measures. The report shows where credentialing, pay accuracy, and shared ownership start to break as 1099 clinician networks scale.
Wingspan Survey of 500+ leaders
Telebehavioral Care
86%
spend 21+ hours a month on clinician compliance alone.
The highest compliance load of any industry Wingspan surveyed.
What's inside
- 01 Where healthcare ranks against six other contractor-heavy industries.
- 02 The credentialing, payment, and ownership chokepoints that slow clinical teams down.
- 03 What leading clinical networks are doing differently.
- Healthcare respondents
- 79
- Total sample
- 500+
- Company size
- ~50% have 1,000-4,999 employees
- Source
- 2026 Future of Flexible Work Report
Who this is for
For teams running 1099 clinician networks.
Built for the people who own provider growth, credentials, pay, and support.
Finance and payroll
Session-level pay, reconciliation, and 1099 readiness.
HR and talent
Clinician onboarding, classification, and documentation.
Workforce leaders
Clinician experience, retention, and operational scale.
Full report
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From page 1
Healthcare leads the survey in five separate pain categories.
The first data page shows why clinical contractor operations compound quickly: credentialing, pay accuracy, compliance time, senior ownership, and overlapping workflows all rank at the top.
86%
spend 21+ hrs/month on contractor compliance.
+17 pts above the survey baseline.
78%
flag license verification as a top onboarding challenge.
#1 of seven verticals.
51%
flag payment accuracy as a top provider complaint.
The only vertical above 50%.
The takeaway
A clinical 1099 platform has to cover continuous credentialing, per-session itemization, and multi-state license logic in one workflow.
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