Physical Therapy Answering Service for Evaluations and Follow-Ups
Our physical therapy answering service answers forwarded clinic calls, books appointments and collects messages for your team. Try a fictional evaluation request in the browser demo to hear the greeting, intake questions and next step.
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Give PT Callers a Clear Next Step
PT callers need appointment help, referral messages and a route to the right staff member. Your receptionist follows your clinic instructions while your therapists and front desk focus on patients.
Evaluation requests
Collect new callers' details and follow your appointment instructions.
Referral messages
Note the request so your staff can arrange the next step.
Clinic information
Answer questions about your hours, services and stated office policies.
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Your receptionist handles the front-desk part of a PT call using information you provide. During onboarding, we ask about your services, hours, service area, price policy and urgent contacts, and learn from your website.
A PT clinic answering service can cover busy periods, unanswered calls or evenings, depending on your forwarding choice. It answers as your clinic and opens with virtual-assistant and recording notices. Callers can speak English or Spanish and change languages during the conversation.
Your team receives email and app push alerts with the summary, urgency tag, transcript and recording. Questions outside your office information become messages for staff, keeping the caller's request available for a callback.
Turn Evaluation and Referral Calls Into Booking Steps
Your receptionist collects evaluation and referral requests, then books in Google Calendar or takes details for your callback. Your staff handles referral review and decisions about the appropriate appointment.
Identify the request
Ask whether the caller wants an evaluation or referral callback.
Follow your booking choice
Book in Google Calendar or collect appointment preferences.
Keep staff informed
Send the caller's message and contact details for review.
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An evaluation call follows your clinic's booking instructions, with referral questions passed to staff. The receptionist asks your intake questions and records the request without interpreting a referral or deciding which treatment someone needs.
In this fictional example, made-up caller Avery says a referring office suggested physical therapy and asks for an afternoon evaluation. If your clinic chooses Google Calendar booking, your receptionist can book there. If you want staff to review the referral first, it collects Avery's callback details and preferred time instead.
Your desk receives the call summary and can arrange the next step. The appointment booking overview shows how your instructions shape this conversation; test it with invented details before sending clinic calls through.
Collect Changes to Plan-of-Care Visits
Your receptionist records requests to move plan-of-care visits so your staff can update existing appointments. It captures the visit in question, preferred alternatives and callback details without changing a clinician's plan.
Name the visit
Record which existing appointment the caller wants to move.
Note timing preferences
Give your front desk alternatives to discuss during the callback.
Keep care decisions clinical
Send treatment-frequency questions to the clinician handling care.
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Visit changes become organized callback requests for your desk. Your receptionist can book appointments in Google Calendar, but it does not automatically move existing visits in your practice software.
Consider fictional patient Jordan, who cannot attend a planned morning visit and asks about Friday instead. The receptionist notes the affected appointment, requested alternative and contact details. Your staff reviews the request and makes the schedule change.
If Jordan also asks whether skipping the visit would affect treatment, that question goes to the clinician. The AI gives no exercise advice or recommendation about visit frequency. For clinics using WebPT or Prompt, staff can enter the summary themselves; direct practice-software connections are not available at launch.
Send Benefits Questions to Your Front Desk
Benefits questions become messages for your front desk to check and answer. Your receptionist captures what the caller wants to know and how to reach them; it does not verify insurance coverage.
Keep the question clear
Note the caller's insurance or benefits concern in their words.
Collect callback details
Give staff a way to return the call after checking.
Follow your price policy
Use supplied office information without predicting an insurer's payment.
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Your receptionist records the benefits question rather than treating it as a confirmed coverage answer. It can explain the price policy you supplied, then leave individual insurance questions for the people who handle them at your clinic.
In a made-up example, fictional caller Sam asks whether another evaluation would use a remaining benefit. The receptionist notes the question and callback information for your front desk. It does not calculate remaining visits, confirm authorization or promise that the insurer will pay.
Your alert includes the summary and transcript so staff can review exactly what Sam asked. See the insurance and benefits message flow for a separate look at this front-desk handoff.
Route Post-Visit Pain Calls to Your Clinician
Post-visit pain questions go to your on-call clinician through your chosen contact route. The receptionist records the concern without diagnosis, exercise advice or triage decisions; safety scripts direct emergencies to 911.
Take the clinical message
Preserve the caller's concern for your on-call clinician.
Use your contact order
Warm transfer or page the person your clinic specifies.
Follow safety scripts
Direct red-flag symptom callers to urgent care or 911 first.
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Clinical calls follow your on-call instructions, and the AI does not decide whether pain is expected after a visit. With a warm transfer, your clinician hears a short summary and presses 1 to accept; you can choose paging instead.
In this fictional scenario, made-up patient Lee asks whether soreness after a session means an exercise should change. Your receptionist records the question and routes it to the clinician without suggesting an exercise or interpreting symptoms.
Safety scripts direct spreading numbness, loss of bladder or bowel control, or severe pain after an accident to urgent care or 911 first, then alert your office. Medical emergencies go to 911 and crisis calls to 988. These are scripted directions, not clinical assessments.
Cover Clinic Calls From Opening Through After Hours
Your receptionist can cover unanswered calls during appointments and continue after closing once forwarding is active. You choose the coverage, review call details and update office instructions by telling the AI.
Morning overflow
Take evaluation requests while your desk checks patients in.
Midday messages
Collect referral and benefits questions for staff to review.
Evening coverage
Handle forwarded appointment requests and use your on-call contact instructions.
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A day of phone coverage follows the forwarding choice you make. You can send busy or unanswered calls during clinic hours, use after-hours forwarding or have your receptionist answer all forwarded calls.
Before launch, try a fictional evaluation request, a reschedule message and an on-call routing test. Check the resulting alerts and dashboard records, then adjust instructions in plain words. Your daily digest email gives you another way to review activity.
Our healthcare position is the pending status (no business associate agreement is in place). Until that status is set, do not use the service with protected health information. The clinic setup steps explain the onboarding chat, forwarding guide and test call you use before going live.
Common questions
Can it book a physical therapy evaluation into my schedule?
Your receptionist can book into Google Calendar using your clinic instructions, or collect the request for a staff callback. Direct connections to practice-management software are not live. Choose the route that fits your evaluation process, then test it with fictional information before forwarding clinic calls.
Can it take a referral call from another office?
Yes. It can take a referral message and ask the intake questions you supply, then send the details to your team by email and app push. Your staff reviews the referral and arranges any required follow-up. The receptionist does not interpret clinical information or decide which treatment to schedule.
Will it tell patients what their insurance covers?
It takes the insurance or benefits question for your front desk without verifying coverage. The summary records what needs checking and how staff can reach the caller. You can supply an office price policy for routine questions, while individual benefit answers stay with your team.
What happens if a patient calls about pain after therapy?
The receptionist takes the clinical message and follows your route to the on-call clinician. It does not diagnose pain, recommend an exercise or decide whether symptoms are normal. Safety scripts direct red-flag symptom callers to urgent care or 911 first, followed by an alert to your office.
Will callers hear that this is an AI receptionist?
The receptionist introduces itself as a virtual assistant and announces that the call is recorded at the beginning. Those notices stay on. You can hear the greeting and ask a fictional clinic question in the browser demo without signing up or sending real patient information.
How do we receive messages when the desk is busy?
You receive an email and app push alert for each call, containing a summary, urgency tag, transcript and recording. Calls are also available in your dashboard, with a daily digest by email. Your team can use the message to return a call or enter details into its practice software.
Can callers speak Spanish when asking about an appointment?
Yes. Your receptionist speaks English and Spanish and allows callers to switch during the conversation. The same clinic instructions guide appointment requests and messages in either language. Use an invented evaluation request to test a language switch and review how the resulting message reaches your desk.
Can we try the service before forwarding our clinic number?
Start with the browser demo, which requires no signup, and use made-up patient details. Request your own 14-day trial with 100 minutes and a setup test call; we'll email your sign-in link when ready. A card will be required before forwarding goes live. Check the healthcare status and your office instructions before using patient information.
Try a PT Evaluation Call in the Demo
Ask for a fictional evaluation and hear the response. Request a free trial to add your clinic's instructions.