Recall and Intervals

Get the Anchor Visit of the Membership Year on the Books

A membership year can pass with no visit and nothing on the schedule shows it. Run recall for annual exams and follow-up intervals from your own rules.

How it pays back

Unused Membership Is Invisible Until It Is Too Late

In fee-for-service, a patient who never comes in shows up as missing revenue immediately. In a membership the fee arrives either way, so a member can go eleven months without contact and nothing in the daily schedule says so. Recall is the mechanism that makes that visible while it can still be acted on.

Intervals Are Clinical, Recall Is Administrative

Your clinicians decide the interval: six months for one member, three for another, annually by default. The system only executes the calendar you gave it. It never sets, shortens, or extends a follow-up interval, and never tells a member that a delay is or is not clinically acceptable.

The Longest Visit Needs the Most Notice

A comprehensive annual exam may occupy a block that exists only a few times a week. Booking it two weeks out is straightforward; discovering in December that a third of the panel still needs one is not. Steady recall spreads the load across the year rather than into a queue nobody can absorb.

Preparation Actually Happens First

The annual exam that arrives without its labs turns an unhurried visit into a rescheduling conversation. When the recall call books the lab draw and the visit in the right order, and reminds the member what fasting means for their appointment, the sequence holds without staff chasing it.

Unlimited concurrent calls

Recall outreach runs without ever tying up the line a member is calling in on

Dozens of languages

Recall and preparation instructions delivered in the member's preferred language

HIPAA BAA included

Recall lists and visit histories encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit

Frequently asked questions

Who decides when a member is due?

Your clinicians, through the intervals recorded in your system or the rules you write. The phone layer executes that schedule. It does not infer that a member is overdue from symptoms, medications, or anything a caller says, and it does not adjust an interval on its own.

Does recall outreach feel automated to a member paying for a personal relationship?

That depends entirely on the script, which you write and approve. Members expect a practice that tracks them; what they object to is a generic reminder that ignores what the physician actually asked for. Recall that names the specific visit the physician requested reads as attentiveness, not automation.

Can it run recall for lab and imaging follow-up, not just the annual?

Yes, for any interval your practice records: repeat bloodwork, a blood pressure recheck, an imaging follow-up the physician set a date for. The system states the visit type your clinician specified and books it. It never conveys or interprets a result on the call.

What happens if a member says they do not want the visit?

It records the response exactly and routes it according to your policy, which usually means the physician or a staff member sees it rather than the member simply being removed from a list. A declined recall in a small panel is information the practice generally wants a human to read.

How does this differ from ordinary appointment reminders?

A reminder is about an appointment that already exists. Recall is about the visit that does not exist yet and should, which is a harder problem: it needs the due list, the outreach, the booking, and the record of who declined. Both are supported, but they are different workflows.

Do we need a particular EMR for the due list?

No. The list can come from your system through API or FHIR where an interface exists, through secure workflow automation, or from a file your practice maintains. The recall workflow itself is EMR-neutral, which matters if you expect to change systems.

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