A dedicated receptionist answering your phones live during clinic hours rather than returning calls the next morning. Based in Latin America and working your time zone directly, a full 9 to 5 on your clock, with prior experience at a US practice and HIPAA training completed before kick-off. Most are fully bilingual in English and Spanish.
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Patient Communication
95%
Appointment Scheduling
93%
EMR & Intake
90%
Reception is the most common first hire because the pain is immediate and the result is visible within a fortnight: calls answered, the voicemail queue cleared, and a schedule that fills instead of leaking.
Calls answered live for the whole clinic day, not returned the next morning
Bilingual English and Spanish cover at no extra cost
Prior experience at a US practice, so no learning curve on your payers
HIPAA training before kick-off, refreshed annually, plus a signed BAA
Works inside your existing phone system and practice management software
Part-time cover from $1,200 a month, full-time from $1,900
Why hire a virtual medical receptionist
A loaded US front-desk hire runs close to $60,000 a year once you add the employer share of health insurance, payroll taxes, equipment and recruiting. A full-time virtual receptionist comes to $23,988 with none of that on top, and covers the same clinic hours. Turnover is the other argument: when the desk resigns, your scheduling and payer knowledge walks out with it.
Felipe Carvalho
Medical Virtual Receptionist
Online Rating 4.5
Felipe Carvalho
Medical Virtual Receptionist
Online Rating 4.5
Felipe Carvalho
Virtual Billing & Revenue Cycle Support
Online Rating 4.5
Full US hours overlap
Your receptionist works your time zone, a full 9 to 5 on your clock, so the phones are covered all day.
Trained and checked
HIPAA training before kick-off, annual refreshers, background checks and a signed BAA.
US experience required
Only candidates who have already worked a US front desk reach your shortlist.
One monthly rate
From $1,200 a month part-time, $1,900 full-time. No recruitment or placement fee.
What a virtual medical receptionist does
The front desk is where practices lose revenue quietly. A call that reaches voicemail is usually an appointment that never gets booked, and staff who are rooming patients cannot answer it. A virtual receptionist covers the phones for the whole clinic day so your in-office team stays with the patients in front of them.
Answer inbound patient calls live during your clinic hours
Book, reschedule and confirm appointments in your practice management system
Work the recall and reactivation list so schedule gaps get filled
Run eligibility and benefit checks before the visit
Handle prescription refill requests and route clinical questions to your staff
Clear the voicemail queue and return calls the same day
Triage inbound faxes, portal messages and patient forms
Confirm appointments the day before to bring down no-shows
Support Spanish-speaking patients without a language line
Specialties
Medical Virtual Receptionists are healthcare professionals who support medical practitioners by managing patient communications, scheduling appointments, and handling administrative tasks. They are vital in ensuring that medical offices run efficiently and provide excellent patient care.
Skills and Qualifications
Medical Virtual Receptionists may have backgrounds in healthcare or administration. While a degree in healthcare is beneficial, it is not mandatory; experience in a medical setting is often sufficient.
Strong organizational and operational skills.
Proficient in professional English communication.
Familiarity with basic medical processes and terminology.
Which phone systems, scheduling tools and EMRs have you used?
Prior experience with your practice-management system helps, but the strongest candidates can also explain how they handled multi-line phones, appointment scheduling, patient messages and chart updates in a US medical practice.
How do you manage several patient calls and urgent requests at once?
Look for a clear triage process: confirm the caller, identify urgency without giving clinical advice, document the message accurately and route it according to the practice’s escalation rules.
How do you protect patient privacy while working remotely?
A strong candidate should understand secure workspaces, unique system credentials, minimum-necessary access, identity verification and why patient information must never be stored on personal devices.
How it works
Tell us the workload
A short call to map your call volume, the hours you need covered and which phone and practice management systems you run.
We build a shortlist
A placement specialist matches receptionists who have worked your specialty and your software, then sends a shortlist worth reading.
Interview and choose
You meet the candidates and make the hire yourself. We handle the in-country contract, payroll and compliance.
Onboard and start
Your receptionist starts with HIPAA training complete and a signed BAA in place, working to a first-week plan built around your phones.
What practices hand off first
Live call coverage
Answer inbound calls throughout clinic hours, route urgent messages and keep routine questions away from clinical staff.
Appointment scheduling
Book, reschedule and confirm visits while following provider rules, visit types and scheduling templates.
New-patient intake
Collect demographics, insurance details, forms and referral information before the first appointment.
No-show reduction
Run confirmation calls, reminders and waitlist backfill so open appointment slots are filled quickly.
Patient messages
Document requests accurately in the EMR and route them to the right clinical or administrative queue.
Bilingual front desk
Support English- and Spanish-speaking patients without relying on a separate language line.
A remote administrative professional who answers your patient calls, books and confirms appointments, runs eligibility checks and works your recall list. They do the front-desk job without occupying a desk, and they are not clinical staff.
Yes, and it is the main reason practices hire one. Because our receptionists work US business hours, calls are answered live during clinic hours rather than going to voicemail and being returned the following morning.
Latin America. Our receptionists work your time zone rather than their own, a full 9 to 5 on your clock, so the phones are covered for the whole clinic day rather than a few hours of crossover. Because the region sits close to US hours, that is a normal working day for them rather than a night shift.
Around $1,900 a month for full-time cover, or $1,200 to $1,500 for part-time. Reception sits at the lower end of our range because it is less specialised than billing or prior authorization. There is no recruitment or placement fee.
Most are fully bilingual. For practices with a large Spanish-speaking patient population that is often the deciding factor, because the same person handles both sides of the schedule without a language line.
Yes. Our receptionists have worked in the systems US practices run, including Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Kareo and Tebra and Dentrix. You grant access under your own credentialing policies, exactly as you would for an in-office employee.
Every receptionist completes HIPAA training before starting with a client and takes annual refresher training after that. Each passes a background check and signs a confidentiality agreement, and we execute a Business Associate Agreement with your practice.
Reception is the fastest role to fill because we hold a standing bench. We will give you a realistic timeline on the first call rather than a number designed to close you.
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