Client Profile: Two provider family medicine practice serving 3,200 active patients in a suburban area. Mixed insurance: 40% commercial, 35% Medicare, 25% Medicaid. Uses athenahealth for EHR and practice management.
"Before Refact, we were drowning. Phones rang nonstop during the day, and after 5 PM we just… missed people. Our office manager was spending half her morning chasing insurance cards. Now? The automation handles it, and she actually gets to take lunch."
Practice Manager, Family Medicine Group
- Problem: Missed 40 to 50 after hours calls per week. Front desk spent 12 to 15 hours per week on insurance verification. No show rate averaged 12%.
- Solution: We built custom AI voice automation with SMS intake, eligibility checking integration, appointment reminder and self reschedule flows.
- Results (first 90 days vs. industry benchmarks):
- Speed to answer: 97% of calls answered in under 30 seconds (industry avg: 27 to 28 seconds)
- Call abandonment: 2.3% (industry avg: 5 to 6%)
- No show rate: 12% down to 9.8% (industry avg: 23% outpatient, 8 to 15% dental)
- Insurance verification time: 14 minutes reduced to 2 minutes per patient (saved 10 hours per week)
- After hours capture: Filled 32% of last minute openings from waitlist
- ROI: Monthly cost equivalent to 0.4 FTE, but delivers 24/7 coverage and eliminates approximately 40 hours per month of manual work. Net positive within 60 days.
*Composite case study using real implementation data. Results vary by practice size, specialty, and patient demographics.