Every call answered, 24/7
First ring, every time: before you open, during sessions, at lunch, overflow when the desk is busy, and after hours and weekends, when many mental health callers reach out.
AI Receptionist for Mental & Behavioral Health
The AI receptionist for mental and behavioral health.
Stable answers every call to your practice, 24/7, in English and Spanish. It books and reschedules in your EHR, verifies insurance, sends callers to the right person on your team, and escalates anything urgent. Keep your number and forward it to Stable.
- Answers 24/7
- English & Spanish
- Books into your EHR
- HIPAA-compliant
Demonstration: Stable's AI receptionist answers a patient's call, collects their insurance, and books the appointment in the practice's EHR.
Why mental health practices lose callers
Stop losing patients at the phone.
Someone calling a mental health practice for the first time has often been working up to it for weeks. If they reach voicemail or a phone menu, many do not leave a message; they call the next practice on the list. Existing patients call to reschedule while your clinicians are in session, referral sources call during lunch, and an answering service that only takes messages hands all of it back to your team. Stable answers every call, finishes the request in the conversation, and only involves your staff when a person is genuinely needed.
Booked in your EHR, not on a message pad
New patients and reschedules land on the right clinician's calendar in real time, with a confirmation and reminders that cut no-shows.
Matched to a clinician who takes their plan
Stable knows which clinicians are credentialed with which plans, including Medicaid managed care plans and associate-level clinicians credentialed plan by plan, and verifies coverage before it books.
Routed to the right person
Billing questions to billing, referrals to your intake coordinator, a prescriber's patient to the prescriber. Warm transfer, cold transfer, or a message, whichever you choose for each kind of call.
English and Spanish
Spanish-speaking callers get the whole conversation, booking, and insurance check in Spanish, with no separate menu branch and no interpreter line. Other languages are available when your patients need them.
Safe when it matters most
Crisis and risk language is recognized on every call, 988 and emergency resources are offered, and the call is escalated to your on-call process immediately. Stable never gives clinical advice.
What it handles
The calls a mental health front desk actually gets.
Most calls to a therapy, psychiatry, or addiction treatment practice fall into a handful of types. Here is what Stable does with each, and where the call ends up.
| Who is calling | What Stable does | Where it ends up |
|---|---|---|
| New patient looking for therapy | Asks what they want help with, age, insurance, and telehealth or in-person, then offers times with clinicians who fit and are in network | Booked in your EHR, intake forms sent |
| Existing patient who needs to reschedule | Finds the next open time with their own clinician and moves the appointment; the freed slot can go to your waitlist | Updated in your EHR |
| Insurance or copay question | Checks the caller's coverage against their specific plan and explains what it found | Answered on the call |
| Medication refill or clinical question | Does not advise. Takes the details and routes to the prescriber or clinician the way you choose | Task, message, or transfer |
| Referral source: doctor's office, school, care manager | Captures the patient, reason for referral, and insurance, and routes to your intake coordinator; faxed referrals are handled too | Referral logged or transferred |
| Billing or balance question | Answers what it can and routes the rest to your billing contact or billing company | Answered or routed |
| Caller in crisis | Recognizes risk language, stays calm, offers 988 and emergency resources, and escalates to your on-call process | Escalated in seconds, logged |
| Spanish-speaking caller | Handles any of the above entirely in Spanish | Same outcomes |
Phone tree and voicemail replacement
No phone tree. No voicemail. No “press 2 for billing.”
A phone tree (IVR) makes the caller do the routing, and in mental health a caller who is unsure which option fits often hangs up instead. Stable replaces the menu with a conversation. You keep your existing number and forward it to Stable, for every call, after hours only, or overflow when your team is busy. Stable works out what the caller needs from what they say, handles it, or sends them to the team member or outside contact you have named for that kind of call. More on replacing your practice's phone tree.
| Phone tree (IVR) | Voicemail or answering service | Stable | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How callers are routed | A menu they navigate | A message someone sorts later | Understood from what they say |
| New patient calls after hours | Voicemail | Message, callback next day | Answered and booked |
| Spanish-speaking callers | A separate menu branch | Depends on the service | Handled in Spanish |
| Getting a caller to a person | Rings an extension | Not live | Warm transfer, cold transfer, or message |
| Caller in crisis | Same menu as everyone | Depends on training | Recognized and escalated |
| What your team receives | Nothing | A message | Summary in the EHR, transcript, recording |
Every call on the record
See every call, not just the ones that reached a person.
Unanswered calls never show up in a report, which is why most practices underestimate them. With Stable every call leaves a record your team can check, and the totals show where your phone time actually goes.
Summary in the EHR
Each call is summarized and written to the patient's record: what they asked for, what was booked or changed, and anything a person needs to follow up on.
Transcript and recording
The full transcript and the audio recording are available for any call, so a supervisor can review exactly what was said.
A dashboard for the phones
Calls broken down by request type, how many were resolved without staff, transfers, and after-hours volume. More in AI reporting.
Built for practices like yours
One receptionist, configured for how your practice works.
Routing rules, clinician matching, and escalation are set up for your practice type, so a psychiatry practice and an addiction treatment program get different calls handled differently.
Therapy group practices
For groups of 10 to 30 clinicians: matching across specialties, ages, and insurance panels, and associates credentialed plan by plan, without the owner taking intake calls between sessions.
Psychiatry and medication management
Refill and medication questions routed to the prescriber, never answered by the AI, and med check visits booked into the right provider's template. See AI receptionist for psychiatry.
Addiction treatment programs
Admissions calls answered at 2 AM, insurance captured for verification of benefits, and handling that respects 42 CFR Part 2 confidentiality. See the AI admissions line.
Multi-location practices
One number or many, with each caller routed to the right location's calendar and staff.
Practices billing Medicaid
Coverage checked against the caller's specific managed care plan, so patients are booked with a clinician the plan will pay.
Solo and small practices
A therapist in session all day can stop returning calls at night. Every inquiry is answered and booked while you work.
EHR Integrated
Booking straight into your system of record.
Stable schedules into the EHR you already use so appointments appear where your team already works.
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AI receptionist for mental health practices, answered.
What is an AI receptionist for mental health practices?
An AI receptionist for mental health practices is an AI voice agent that answers your practice's calls 24/7 and completes the request in the conversation: it books new patients with a clinician who takes their insurance, reschedules existing patients, answers coverage questions, routes callers to the right staff member, and escalates crisis calls. Unlike a general AI receptionist, it is built for behavioral health conversations, including risk language and confidentiality rules.
How is an AI receptionist different from an answering service?
An answering service takes a message and your staff call the patient back, often after they have booked somewhere else. An AI receptionist answers instantly and finishes the job on the call: the appointment is in your EHR before the caller hangs up. See the full comparison of AI, traditional, and in-house answering and the AI receptionists compared by name.
Does it replace our phone tree or IVR?
Yes. Instead of a menu, callers say what they need and Stable handles it or sends them to the right person. Practices usually remove the menu entirely, though you can forward only after hours or overflow calls if you want to keep your current setup during the day.
Do we keep our phone number?
Yes. You keep your existing number and forward it to Stable. You choose whether every call, after-hours calls, or overflow calls go to Stable.
Can it transfer calls to my staff?
Yes. For each kind of call you decide whether Stable makes a warm transfer with a summary of the caller's request, a cold transfer, or takes a message. Calls can go to team members or to outside contacts such as your billing company or on-call clinician.
Does the AI receptionist speak Spanish?
Yes. Stable handles calls in English and Spanish, including booking and insurance questions, and other languages are available if your patients need them.
How does it handle crisis or urgent calls?
Stable is built for sensitive behavioral health conversations. It recognizes crisis and risk language, responds calmly, offers 988 and emergency resources, and escalates to your on-call process immediately. It routes clinical questions to your staff and never gives clinical advice.
Which EHRs does it book into?
Stable books and reschedules in athenahealth, SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Tebra, AdvancedMD, TheraNest, NextGen Healthcare, and Epic, in real time, and sends confirmations and reminders. More on how it works with SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, and athenahealth, or see behavioral health scheduling for self-scheduling and waitlist backfill.
What do we see after each call?
A summary written to the patient's record in your EHR, a full transcript, and the audio recording. A dashboard shows calls by request type, how many were resolved without staff, transfers, and after-hours volume.
Is Stable's AI receptionist HIPAA compliant?
Yes. Stable is built with HIPAA-compliant architecture and security controls, signs a BAA, and handles substance use disorder information with 42 CFR Part 2 in mind. See our guide: is AI HIPAA compliant?
Will an AI receptionist replace my front desk staff?
No. Stable takes the repetitive, after-hours, and overflow calls so your front desk can focus on the patients in the building and the calls that need a person. It is priced as software rather than per minute or per hire. Paired with Stable's patient messaging and AI billing, it covers the rest of the front office.
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