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Patients get answers to booking, forms and billing questions on your website, and your front desk gets fewer routine calls.
Your front desk spends hours answering the same questions about booking, forms, opening hours and billing. This chatbot answers those administrative questions on your practice or clinic website, using only content you approve. It never gives clinical advice, diagnosis or triage. Medical and personal questions go straight to your staff, and conversations stay in your own hosting.

AI Website Chatbot for Healthcare Administration answers administrative questions on your practice or clinic website, including booking steps, forms, opening hours and billing policy, from content you approve. It never gives clinical advice, diagnosis or triage, and passes personal or medical questions to staff. It includes the Healthcare Administration workflow template. Handoffs include the full conversation.
Routine admin calls tie up reception when patients in the waiting room need attention. Many of those calls ask things your website already explains, if patients could find it. This chatbot answers them instantly and consistently, and it is tested to refuse anything clinical. Your team gets fewer interruptions and patients get faster answers. The written scope fixes what it answers, where handoffs go and how it is tested before you order.
The chatbot answers booking steps, forms, opening hours and billing policy from content you approve. Patients can find routine answers on your practice website instead of waiting in a phone queue.
It never gives clinical advice, diagnosis or triage. Personal or medical questions are passed to staff with the full conversation, and test scenarios check these boundaries before launch.
Billing policy and payment questions are answered from your approved policy pages. Front-desk staff then handle individual account queries passed on through the handoff inbox.
Your portal lists these the moment you order. Delivery starts the working day after everything is in and your access is checked.
| Option | Delivery time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 20–30 working days | $3,500 |
| Express | 15–25 working days | $4,100 |
| Rush | 10–20 working days | $4,750 |
Before you start: Log front-desk calls by reason, such as forms, hours, booking or billing, for one or two weeks. Note current call volumes from your phone system.
These are things to track, not promised results. Outcomes depend on your data, your team and your market.
The build is $3,500, paid once. Running it costs roughly $30 to $150 a month for AI model usage and hosting in your own accounts.
Usage during build and testing is billed to you too, so hosting and AI accounts stay with your organization, under your own data agreements.
Ask about running costsReading live availability from your practice management system, a second language, or a sixth intent is outside the Scope Card. Add a note at checkout and a written Change Quote follows. Larger or bespoke projects go through the Custom AI request form instead.
Request a custom versionWe recommend monthly maintenance for this build. It covers monitoring, fixes and monthly hours for new forms, changed opening hours or an updated billing policy. The change hours scale with the build, so groups with several clinics get more room. Maintenance starts after the included support period and can be cancelled any month.
$249/mo (the minimum fee, includes 2 change hours)
Optional. Starts after the post-launch support period. Cancel any month.
How maintenance works| Do it yourself with a SaaS tool | Hire a custom agency | Upmark Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Patient chat tools often charge per provider or per location monthly | An agency quotes after discovery calls | Ours is one fixed price, shown before you buy |
| Clinical boundary | A generic chatbot may attempt health answers | An agency build depends on what was agreed | Ours refuses clinical questions with your approved wording |
| Testing | A widget is rarely tested against questions it must refuse | Depends on the brief | Ours is tested on 40 questions, refusals included |
| Delivery | A widget installs quickly but your content and limits still need setting | An agency usually takes several weeks, set per project | Ours has a fixed delivery time shown before you buy, with faster options |
No. It handles administrative questions only, such as booking steps, forms, hours and billing policy. Clinical advice, diagnosis and triage are excluded. Questions about symptoms, medication or results receive your approved wording directing the patient to call the practice or emergency services.
It explains how to book and can hand a booking request to your front desk with the conversation attached, but it does not write into your scheduling system in the standard scope. For direct booking, see AI Appointment Setter for Healthcare Administration.
Conversations are stored in your own hosting and handoff system, not with us. If you want names, dates of birth or other personal details removed from logs, add the PII Redaction Layer, and use Data Retention and Deletion Configuration to set how long logs are kept.
Clinical questions are part of the 40 documented test questions. Each one must produce your approved refusal wording and no medical content to pass. You see the pass or fail result for every question before launch, and two rounds of changes are available if any wording needs adjusting.
It includes the Healthcare Administration workflow template, five administrative intents, documented tests that it refuses clinical questions, two rounds of changes and 30 days of support. The price and delivery times are shown before you order. Running costs of roughly $30 to $150 a month are billed separately in your own accounts.
Yes, where your published billing policy answers them, for example which payment methods you accept or how statements are sent. Questions about an individual account or balance are handed to your billing staff. It explains your policies; it does not interpret insurance cover for an individual patient.
Order AI Website Chatbot for Healthcare Administration and your website starts answering booking, forms and billing questions from approved content, with clinical questions always sent to people.

Answers calls, handles common questions, takes messages and transfers callers.

Engages leads across chat and email and books qualified appointments.

Answers frequently asked questions on your website from an approved FAQ set.