Telehealth app cost calculator, from our published prices
Every number this calculator uses is one Zee Palm publishes: a prototype from $3,500, an MVP build from $12,000, a full custom build with EHR integration from $25,000, device integrations at $3,500 per platform. The result is a range, with a list of what it leaves out.
Your estimated range
$13,000 – $24,500
One-off build cost. The low end is the published floor for this scope plus the add-ons you picked. The high end applies the scope model above.
- MVP build floor
- $12,000
- QA & release readiness
- $999
- Scope model applied
- +95%
Planning sprint, credited toward the build
$1,500
Running it, first 12 months
$12,000
This range excludes
- App-store developer fees and hosting, billed to your own accounts
- EHR vendor connection fees (Epic, Cerner and Athenahealth each charge their own)
- Payer enrollment, credentialing and licensure fees
- Marketing, ad spend and app-store optimization
- Legal, clinical or regulatory review, and any certification
This is an estimate. Scoped numbers come from a five-day planning sprint at $1,500, or the seven-day Healthtech MVP Blueprint at $1,999 for products with a clinical dependency map. Both are credited in full toward the build.
How to read the number
What drives telehealth build cost
Four things move a telehealth budget more than the feature list does. A generic app estimate usually leaves them out.
Integration depth drives the cost
EHR write-back, payer eligibility checks and device data streams each carry their own weight, which is why the backend-complexity choice in this calculator moves the range more than any single feature.
Regulation changes the data model
E-prescribing, licensure routing and consent handling change what the data model has to represent and what the backend has to enforce, before a single screen gets designed.
Clinician-facing and patient-facing are different products
A patient booking a video visit and a clinician documenting one inside a busy day have almost nothing in common as interfaces, so most telehealth builds end up as two connected products: one for patients and one for clinicians.
The year after launch
Epic, Cerner and other EHR vendors update their APIs without checking with you. Maintenance from $1,000/mo keeps a telehealth integration working through those updates.
Methodology
How the telehealth estimate is built
Start with the low end: the published floor price for the tier you picked, plus the published price of every device integration you selected. An MVP with EHR integration and one device platform is $12,000 plus $3,500, so the range starts at $15,500. Check every one of those numbers against the full price list.
The high end applies the same scope model used on the fitness app calculator: each feature and scope choice carries a percentage weight, the weights are summed, and the total is applied to the floor. Backend complexity carries the heaviest weights here, because EHR integration and multi-tenant architecture add more to a telehealth build than any single clinical feature does.
The same escalation rule from the fitness calculator applies: if your selections push an MVP past roughly a doubling of its floor, the calculator prices it from the full custom build floor of $25,000 instead. The range also keeps at least a 25% spread, since nobody has scoped your work yet. A scoped number comes from a five-day MVP Planning Sprint at $1,500, or from the seven-day Healthtech MVP Blueprint at $1,999 for products with a clinical dependency map.
Ship scheduling, video visits and documentation before you add e-prescribing, payer billing or multi-state licensure routing. A clinician can use that first slice the day it launches, and the rest can wait for version two once the workflow is confirmed.
Pricing questions
Telehealth app development cost FAQ
How much does it cost to build a telehealth app?
A clickable prototype on synthetic data starts at $3,500, a bounded MVP build at $12,000, and a full custom build with EHR integration at $25,000; those are our published prices. Device and wearable integrations for remote monitoring add $3,500 per platform. With EHR integration and one device platform included, most first versions land between $12,000 and $30,000. The calculator starts from these same figures.
Why do EHR integrations and e-prescribing cost so much more than a typical feature?
They carry regulatory and interoperability work that a typical app feature doesn't. HL7/FHIR R4 connections to Epic, Cerner or Athenahealth each have their own quirks and their own vendor connection fees, which sit outside this estimate entirely. E-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS) is close to its own project, with identity-proofing and DEA requirements layered on top of the prescribing flow itself.
Can I use this number as a quote?
No. It's an estimate from published floor prices and a scope model you can see. For a firm number, a telehealth product goes through the $1,500 five-day MVP Planning Sprint or, if it has a clinical dependency map to work out, the $1,999 seven-day Healthtech MVP Blueprint. Both are credited in full toward the build if you go ahead.
What is not included in the estimate?
App-store developer fees and hosting, the EHR vendor's own connection fees (Epic, Cerner and Athenahealth each charge separately for API access), payer enrollment, credentialing and state licensure fees, marketing spend, and any legal, clinical or regulatory review. Those are yours and billed to your own accounts.
How can I make my telehealth app cheaper to build first?
Cut integration scope before you cut clinical features: ship with standard scheduling and documentation before adding a live EHR write-back, and add licensure-routing logic only once you're operating in more than one state. Payer billing and multi-provider triage can usually wait until the first buyer has confirmed the workflow.
Next steps
Scoping and building a telehealth product
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Scoping a telehealth build?
Send the range this gave you and the EHR you need to connect to. We'll usually reply within one business day with a proposed version one, a fixed price and a date.