The Network Numbers That Tell You What Kind of Practice This Is
Forty-four specialists joined the TeleSpecialists network in 2026 alone. That is not a recruiting headline. It is a data point about what experienced neurologists and psychiatrists are choosing when they evaluate where to practice. When physicians with options, subspecialty training, and established careers consistently choose the same organization, it is worth understanding why.
The numbers behind that choice tell the story more directly than any description of the organization could.
A Network Built Around Clinical Volume
TeleSpecialists has delivered more than 1.5 million patient consultations since 2014. In 2026 alone, the network completed 168,804 consultations through May. Those consultations span emergency neurology, inpatient rounding, EEG interpretation, outpatient follow-up, and psychiatric evaluation, often within the same day across different hospital systems and geographies.
For a neurologist or psychiatrist, that volume is a description of the clinical environment you would be stepping into: high-acuity, high-variety, and built around the work you trained for rather than the administrative demands that tend to accumulate around it.
“The biggest impact is the speed of care. There are not enough neurologists to cover hospitals in person. Being at bedside quickly means I can see 14 or 15 patients across a shift and impact that care.“
— Danielle Haskins, MD, Stroke/Vascular Neurologist, TeleSpecialists
What 641 Thrombolytics Per Month Means
TeleSpecialists administers 641 thrombolytics per month across more than 400 partner hospitals nationwide. Each of those administrations represents a stroke patient who received a board-certified specialist consultation in under three minutes and a treatment decision that, in many cases, determined whether they walked out of the hospital.
That figure is worth sitting with. Six hundred forty-one times in a single month, a TeleSpecialists neurologist was on screen at a rural or critical access hospital when a stroke patient needed a specialist and none was available on site. The response standard that makes that possible is not an operational convenience. It is the clinical infrastructure the organization was built to deliver.
Growth That Reflects Demand, Not Ambition
The forty-four physicians who joined in 2026 join a growing network that already exceeds more than 200 neurologists and psychiatrists, a 19 percent increase year over year. With fifty-three physicians currently in active orientation, the pipeline reflects where demand from partner hospitals is heading, not where the organization hopes it will go.
Partner hospitals across thirty-two states are seeking reliable, high-acuity specialist coverage. The growth in the physician network is the direct response to that demand. For a physician evaluating TeleSpecialists, that context matters: the organization is expanding because the hospitals it serves need it to, and because experienced specialists are choosing to be part of what it is building.
Neurologists share what practicing digital healthcare looks like from the inside: the clinical work, the flexibility, and what drew them to TeleSpecialists.
Physician-Owned. Physician-Led. That Is Not a Tagline.
TeleSpecialists has been physician-founded, physician-owned, and physician-led since 2014. The clinical protocols, the coverage model, and the quality standards were designed by neurologists who have covered stroke. When a coverage protocol is under review, the people in that conversation have personally conducted acute stroke consults. When quality standards are set, they reflect the clinical judgment of a specialist.
That structure shapes everything about how the work gets done. It is why the one-patient-at-a-time operating principle exists. It is why the response standard is what it is. It is why the physicians who join tend to stay.
“It is a system run by physicians. They relate to us, to any issues we have. They understand the ultimate goal: caring for stroke patients efficiently and giving the best care.”
— Robert Fishman, MD, Neurologist, TeleSpecialists
The Practice You Are Evaluating Exists
The case volume is real. The ownership structure is what it says. The clinical infrastructure behind 641 monthly thrombolytics and more than 30,000 monthly consultations is operational, documented, and growing.
Not every neurologist or psychiatrist is looking for a change. The physicians who find their way to TeleSpecialists are typically those who want more of the clinical work they trained for and less of what has accumulated around it. If that description is familiar, the conversation is worth having.
Ready to practice at this level? Explore physician career opportunities at TeleSpecialists.
