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AI Receptionist for Physiatry & PM&R Practices | MedReception AI
How a healthcare-only AI receptionist answers PM&R referral calls in under a second, coordinates therapy schedules, and books injection visits 24/7.
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Why PM&R phone lines carry more weight than most specialties
Physiatry practices sit at the center of a referral network. Calls arrive from orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, primary care offices, workers' compensation case managers, and hospital discharge planners, often with time pressure attached, because a patient leaving inpatient rehab needs follow-up scheduled before discharge paperwork closes. Layered on top are the patients themselves: someone midway through a therapy series calling to reschedule, a patient with a pre-procedure question about an epidural steroid injection, a caregiver confirming transport for a spasticity clinic visit. Front desks in PM&R field heavy call volume, and every missed referral call is a patient who may land with another practice. Hold times cause hang-ups, for referring offices as well as patients. An AI receptionist built specifically for healthcare answers every one of these calls instantly, so the referral pipeline never depends on how many staff happen to be free at that moment.
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Instant answering for referral coordinators, patients, and case managers
MedReception AI answers in under one second and handles unlimited simultaneous calls, which matters in a specialty where Monday mornings bring a wave of weekend discharge referrals at the same time therapy patients call to confirm their week. Katie, the instant-answering AI, greets every caller without hold music. Annie covers after-hours, so a case manager calling at 6:45 pm to place a referral gets a complete intake rather than a voicemail box, and Victoria turns any voicemail that does arrive into a structured summary your staff can act on the next morning. Sallie handles scheduling against your booking rules, useful for recurring therapy blocks and procedure slots that follow different templates than standard follow-ups. Multilingual coverage means patients and family caregivers can complete calls in the language they are most comfortable with. The result is a front line that never rings busy, whether one call arrives or thirty arrive at once.
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Routing built for therapy coordination and injection scheduling
PM&R calls do not all belong in the same queue. A patient reporting new weakness after a procedure needs a different path than one asking to move next Tuesday's occupational therapy visit. MedReception AI routes calls by provider, urgency, and triage rules your practice defines: injection candidates and pre-procedure questions can go to your procedure coordinator, therapy scheduling changes to the therapy desk, and red-flag symptoms escalated immediately to clinical staff. The AI never makes clinical decisions and never gives medical advice; it routes and escalates, and your clinicians decide. That boundary is deliberate. For injection scheduling specifically, the AI captures the referring provider, body region, prior imaging status, and insurance details on the first call, so your team books the fluoroscopy or ultrasound-guided slot with a complete picture instead of playing phone tag. MedReception AI ships with more than 30 specialty templates, including workflows shaped for physiatry's mix of procedural and rehabilitative visits.
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Structured summaries your staff can paste straight into the EMR
Every call produces a structured, EMR-pasteable summary: who called, why, what was scheduled or requested, and what needs human follow-up. For a referral-heavy specialty, that means the details a coordinator needs, referring provider, diagnosis context, authorization notes, arrive organized rather than scattered across sticky notes and voicemail transcriptions. MedReception AI integrates with athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, AdvancedMD, and ModMed. Practices on athenahealth or eClinicalWorks typically go live with integration in one to three weeks; the others generally take three to six weeks. Importantly, the AI never makes autonomous changes to the chart. Summaries are prepared for your staff to review and enter, keeping a human in control of the record. If your practice runs software outside that list, every call still produces the same structured summary for staff to paste in, and our team can walk through the integration path for your specific system.
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Privacy-aligned coverage for US, Canadian, and Australian practices
PM&R practices handle sensitive information on nearly every call: injury details, workers' compensation claims, functional status, and insurance authorizations. MedReception AI is built exclusively for healthcare and operates HIPAA-aligned with a Business Associate Agreement for US practices. Canadian physiatry and rehabilitation clinics are supported under PIPEDA and PHIPA, and Australian practices under the Privacy Act and Australian Privacy Principles. Because the platform serves medicine only, there is no general-purpose chatbot underneath being bent to fit a clinical setting; the workflows, escalation logic, and language were designed for practices like yours. Bailey, the onboarding AI, helps configure your routing rules, therapy scheduling templates, and procedure booking logic during setup. If your front desk is fielding referral calls, therapy reschedules, and injection questions faster than staff can answer them, book a MedReception AI demo and hear how Katie handles a real PM&R call flow.
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