Medical virtual receptionist
A medical virtual receptionist that answers patient calls 24/7 — books and reschedules appointments, captures refills, and routes clinical urgency to your on-call provider.
7-day trial · 30 minutes included · No credit card.
A medical virtual receptionist answers patient calls when your front desk can't — the lunch rush, after hours, weekends, holidays. Human medical answering services charge $1–$3 per minute for it. RingOwl uses AI trained on your practice: it schedules and reschedules appointments against your calendar, captures refill and billing questions as structured notes, and routes anything clinically urgent straight to your on-call provider — for a flat $49–$199/mo.
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What you get
Why RingOwl is the right fit
Answers every patient call 24/7
Under a second, every time — no phone tree, no hold music. The lunch-hour call and the 9pm call both get a real answer instead of voicemail.
Books and reschedules appointments
Checks your connected Google Calendar in real time and confirms the slot on the call. Reschedules and cancellations update your calendar without a staffer touching it.
Refills and routine questions captured cleanly
Medication, dosage, and pharmacy for refills; reason and preferred time for scheduling — captured as structured notes and texted to your MA for the morning, not left on a voicemail no one checks.
Clinical urgency routed to your provider
You define the trigger phrases. RingOwl detects them and routes the call to your on-call provider or nurse line immediately, and instructs the caller to dial 911 for anything life-threatening.
Setup
Live in 15 minutes. No IT.
Paste your website
We auto-extract your hours, services, and FAQs. You can edit anything.
Forward your number — your way
Dial one code on your existing line. Forward every call, or just the ones you can't get to — after hours, weekends, or when you're already on the phone.
Get texts and emails, not voicemails
Every call answered, every booking confirmed, summarized to your phone and inbox.
Works with your calendar
Books straight into the calendar you already use
Live today
On the roadmap
Pricing
Simple pricing. One job — answer the phone.
Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial — 30 minutes included, no credit card. After the trial, pick a plan to keep RingOwl answering.
Starter
Solo owner. One number, one calendar.
$49/mo
- ✓250 minutes / month
- ✓1 forwarded number
- ✓1 calendar (Google)
- ✓SMS summaries to your phone
- ✓Email support
Growth
Most popular. For practices booking 5+ appointments a week.
$99/mo
- ✓600 minutes / month
- ✓1 vertical pack (real estate, dental, salon, …)
- ✓CRM + calendar integrations
- ✓60-second callback for missed calls
- ✓Priority support
Scale
Multi-location. White-glove setup.
$199/mo
- ✓1,500 minutes / month
- ✓All vertical packs
- ✓Multi-location / multi-number routing
- ✓Dedicated onboarding call
- ✓White-glove support
No credit card · Cancel anytime · Replaces a $300/mo virtual receptionist at 1/10th the cost.
Questions
medical virtual receptionist — FAQ
How is this different from a human medical answering service?+
Same job — answering patient calls, booking appointments, taking messages, escalating the urgent ones — at a flat $49–$199/mo instead of $1–$3 per minute. The AI answers 24/7 without shift gaps, and the cost doesn't climb with your call volume.
What's your stance on HIPAA?+
RingOwl is HIPAA-aware, not HIPAA-certified. We don't log or expose PHI by default, call data lives in your account only, and we don't currently sign BAAs. Review it against your own compliance requirements before relying on it.
Will it give medical advice?+
No. RingOwl is explicit that it's a scheduling assistant, not a clinician. Clinical questions route to your on-call provider, and life-threatening calls get a 911 instruction.
Can it handle multiple providers or locations?+
Yes. You set routing rules per provider or location. RingOwl identifies who the patient needs, captures the reason for the call, and routes the urgent ones immediately.
Can we keep our current phone number and scheduling system?+
Yes. Patients keep dialing your existing number — forward it to RingOwl with one carrier code. It books against Google Calendar today (Appointo for Shopify-native shops), with more integrations on the roadmap.
Stop sending medical virtual receptionist callers to voicemail
Forward your line, keep your number, and let RingOwl answer every call.
7-day trial · 30 minutes included · No credit card.