Your current phone coverage
AI coverage with ClinicFlow
Flat per-minute pricing, 24/7/365. No after-hours surcharge, no per-seat licensing, no holiday rates. Coverage includes booking into your EMR, referral capture, and on-call escalation, work an answering service leaves on the message pad.
The staff figure counts only the phone-share of front-desk time, because AI answers calls; it does not greet patients, room them, or run the desk. Most practices redeploy that time rather than cut headcount, so read the difference as capacity recovered, not necessarily payroll removed. This calculator excludes the revenue side entirely; missed consults and leaked referrals usually dwarf the cost side, and the missed-call calculator estimates that number.
How to read the result
The comparison is deliberately conservative. It prices only the phone-share of front-desk labor plus your answering service against AI coverage at the published rate, and ignores the 3 places practices usually find the bigger money: after-hours calls that currently convert to nothing, referrals that leak while the line is busy, and no-shows that a confirmation call would have caught. If the cost sides come out close, the revenue side is the tiebreaker, and it is rarely close.
To ground the inputs in your own numbers, run the free phone audit: we call your practice the way a patient would, after hours included, and send you the recordings and a scorecard. For the full evaluation framework beyond cost, use the AI receptionist RFP checklist.
Test the thing you'd be paying for
Call the live demo line and put the AI through a real front-desk shift: book a visit, change it, ask an insurance question, describe a symptom.
Or call the live demo line: (281) 502-8583