Concierge & DPC Calls
Closed panels still take clinical calls from prospects, lapsed members and former patients. Handle them by your rule, without creating a relationship.
Membership practices cap the panel, and the phone does not know that. Former patients from a previous insurance-based practice, referrals who assume they can be seen, and prospects mid-decision all call with clinical questions. Each needs a different answer, and none of them should receive a clinical one by accident.
Answering a stranger's clinical question can imply a relationship your practice never agreed to. The system never advises and never characterises what the caller describes. It delivers only the statement your clinicians approved for non-members about what your practice can and cannot do, and where to go instead.
Someone weighing a membership often tests it with a real question. Handled badly you either give away advice or sound cold enough to lose them. Handled with your script, the caller hears exactly what the membership includes and gets a straight route into an enrolment conversation, with the clinical question logged rather than answered.
If a caller meets the conditions your clinicians defined as requiring escalation, the escalation runs whether or not they have ever paid you anything, and your emergency wording is delivered as written. Whether they are eligible to join is a separate question, answered later, by a person.
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Non-member calls arrive at the same hours as member calls, including overnight
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No. It does not advise members either. For a non-member it delivers the wording your clinicians approved about what your practice can and cannot do and where to seek care, and it does not characterise what the caller described in any way.
The escalation path you configured runs and your emergency wording is delivered, without reference to membership status. Your practice decides what follows. The system does not withhold a routing decision because a caller has not enrolled.
By checking the identifiers your practice uses against your membership record where that is connected, and by asking where it is not. When status is unclear it follows your fallback path rather than assuming in either direction.
Whatever you write: a waitlist offer, a referral to a named practice, or a plain statement that you are not accepting members at present, delivered the same way every time. The caller's details are captured either way, so a full panel today leaves you a real list to work when a place opens.
Membership status is stated in your own wording, the clinical question is captured but not answered, and the call routes to whoever handles reinstatement. It is a membership conversation with a clinical trigger, and treating it as only one or the other is how those members are lost quietly.
Yes, under the same HIPAA BAA, with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit. A call you deliberately decided not to take clinically is precisely the call you want a clean record of.
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