AI Receptionist for Medical Practices · FAQ
Everything You Need to Know
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HIPAA compliance, EHR integration, pricing, onboarding — every real question answered.
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💸 The Cost of Doing Nothing
It's the unanswered phone. The average medical practice loses $380,000 in annual revenue simply because calls go to voicemail or patients hang up after 3 seconds. They don't leave a message — they book with your competitor. This revenue loss is silent because it never shows up on a report. You only see the empty slots, never the patients who tried and left.

Our AI team eliminates this leak from day one — every call answered, every patient captured.
It's simple math based on a standard medical Lifetime Value (LTV) of $3,000 per patient. If your office misses just 10 to 11 new patients a month because the phone wasn't answered fast enough, you are quietly leaking $380,000 every single year.

Most practices don't realize they are losing 127 patients annually to the clinic down the street that actually picked up the phone.
Right now, Monday morning probably means a mountain of unread voicemails, overwhelmed staff, and a phone that won't stop ringing. With Katie, you walk into "The Silence."

Your schedule is already booked. Patients who called over the weekend have been triaged and confirmed. Your team arrives calm, focused entirely on in-person care — not playing phone tag with a backlog.
"On launch day, my team called me thinking the system wasn't working — because the phones had gone quiet. 100 calls had already been handled." — Practice owner, week one
🤝 Meet the AI Team
We don't just provide software — we provide a complete digital front desk team, each built for a specific role:
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Katie
Handles all daytime calls — routing, scheduling, and intake — without ever putting a patient on hold.
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Annie
Covers evenings, weekends, and holidays. No call goes unanswered — 365 days a year.
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Victoria
Transcribes and summarizes every voicemail, delivering smart summaries straight to your inbox so nothing gets buried.
Not even close. This is conversational AI. It listens, understands the patient's intent, and responds with empathy — not a menu. There's no "press 2 for appointments" frustration. Patients feel heard, having a natural back-and-forth conversation, just like they would with your best front desk staff — except available 24/7 and handling unlimited simultaneous calls.
Katie AI was built by a practicing surgeon who lived the problem firsthand. After years watching his own front desk drown in calls — three staff members on the phones, voicemails piling up, patients feeling ignored despite his team's best efforts — he realized the system wasn't broken because of bad people. It was broken because it was never designed for the volume modern practices now carry.

As reimbursement declined, the only path forward became higher output. More patients. More calls. More coordination. The infrastructure never evolved. The load simply increased — and everyone absorbed it silently, because it was happening everywhere.
"I mistook normalization for inevitability." — Practice owner & creator of the system
He built the solution he couldn't find anywhere else. Not as a tech entrepreneur. Not as a startup. As a clinician who finally stopped accepting a broken system as the only option.
🏥 Operations & Staffing
Think of it as a shield, not a replacement. The AI absorbs high-volume, repetitive calls so your in-person staff can focus entirely on the patients standing right in front of them. It eliminates phone fatigue and frees your team for complex situations that genuinely require a human touch.
"I can finally think again — the phone isn't constantly ringing." — Front desk staff member, week one after launch
In practices where three people used to jump on every ringing line, now just one is needed to supervise. The AI handles the noise — often processing over 100 calls before the staff even notices the volume drop. Your team stays focused on in-person care, complex cases, and the moments that actually require a human.
One practice was receiving a call every 3 minutes — roughly 90 seconds each — and still accumulating nearly 1,000 unhandled voicemails every month. On launch day, the team called thinking the system wasn't working... because the phones had gone quiet. 100 calls had already been handled automatically.
🗣️ Patient Experience & Reliability
It's a world apart from old-school "press 1" menus. The AI is trained on thousands of real medical interactions, incorporates empathy cues, and retains caller context across conversations for continuity. It doesn't just detect keywords — it holds a fluid, natural conversation and handles complex requests like scheduling and routing far better than any traditional system.
"It's amazing how well the AI handles complex conversations. Very realistic. Most patients don't even realize — and those who do are already used to automated systems like when you call a pharmacy or Google." — Practice owner, post-launch review
The human escape hatch is built right in. The moment a caller asks for a representative — whether verbally or by pressing zero — the call is instantly routed to your front desk. The AI also detects escalations proactively and can alert your staff. Your team only steps in when a genuinely high-value human interaction is needed.
SMS confirmations are triggered immediately after the call workflow is completed — not minutes later, not batched overnight. Patients receive their confirmation text before they've even put their phone back in their pocket.
🛡️ Compliance & Tech Stack
Yes — HIPAA compliance is the foundation, not an afterthought. We are independently monitored by Compliancy Group, a recognized third-party organization. Their official certification is displayed publicly on our website. We sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with every client, and all Protected Health Information (PHI) is handled through encrypted, secure channels.
Yes. The solution integrates with over 2,000 tools, including major EHR/EMR platforms, VOIP systems, and calendars — fitting right into your existing workflows without overhauling anything.

For safety, the AI initially operates without touching your database. Once workflows are verified and stable — typically around week three — we provide it with secure login credentials to schedule appointments directly inside your system. Fast and safe.
⚡ Capabilities & Features
The AI handles bookings, changes, and automated reminders — all synced with your calendar in real time. Fewer no-shows, less back-and-forth, and zero hold music for your patients. Once EHR access is granted, it schedules directly inside your system with no double entry required.
Yes. The AI communicates in over 20 languages, ensuring every patient can be assisted in the language they're most comfortable with — at no extra cost and without additional hires.
Answering services just take messages. Call trees just frustrate people. This AI actually completes tasks — it handles intake, verifies demographics, manages rescheduling, and delivers smart voicemail summaries, all while handling up to 1,000 simultaneous calls without ever hitting a busy state. No burnout, no hold music.
💬 SMS & Text Messaging
Yes. It's a unified communication system. Once a voice call ends — whether it's a new booking, a cancellation, or an intake — the AI automatically triggers an instant, HIPAA-safe SMS confirmation. The patient gets written proof of what was just handled before they've even hung up.
Absolutely. We follow a strict "logistics-only" SMS policy. Text messages are used exclusively for reminders, confirmations, and operational updates. Sensitive Protected Health Information (PHI) always stays locked inside your secure, encrypted clinical portals — never in a text.
Voice is our production-first channel — it offers the highest reliability and the most natural patient experience. Full conversational AI booking via SMS is currently in a controlled rollout phase for select practices. Ask about availability on your discovery call.
🚀 Setup & Onboarding
Typically under a week. It starts with a 10-minute discovery call to map out your routing rules and scripts. We then build and test your custom AI agent before it ever touches a live patient — then go live. Most clinics are fully operational within 5–7 business days.
None. Full configuration — scripts, integrations, routing rules — is included at no extra cost. Building an equivalent custom system from scratch with a developer could easily run $10,000 or more. We don't want that to be a barrier.
We offer guided onboarding, training, and continuous optimization as your practice grows and your needs evolve. You're not set up and abandoned — we monitor performance and refine your AI's workflows over time.
Due to the custom engineering required for each practice, we only onboard 20 new practices per month. Each AI is built, mapped, and tested individually — that's what makes it actually work for your specific workflows. Spots fill quickly; last month's allocation was gone in under 24 hours.
💰 Pricing & Plans
Calls are billed per minute, with three monthly plans based on your expected volume:
Essential
$495
500 min/mo included
$1.25/min overage
Best for 1–2 providers
Elite
$1,495
2,000 min/mo included
$0.95/min overage
High-volume practices
Yes. Five optional Workflow AI modules are available at $99/month each, or bundled together at $399/month (save 20%):
Victoria AI
Voicemail transcription + smart summaries
$99/mo
Annie AI
After-hours, weekend & holiday coverage
$99/mo
Sallie AI
Rescheduling, referrals & demographic updates
$99/mo
Bailey AI
New patient intake & pre-visit questionnaires
$99/mo
Charlie AI
Chart prep & referral context (PreScribe AI)
$99/mo
🎁 Workflow Pro Bundle — All 5 AIs
Save 20% vs buying separately
$399/mo
A single full-time front desk employee runs approximately $4,000/month. A practice handling 200 calls/week on the Professional plan averages around $1,006/month in total AI costs — saving nearly $3,000/month per FTE replaced. That's without factoring in recovered revenue from calls that would have gone unanswered.
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