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Missed Call Cost Calculator
What are unanswered calls costing your practice?
Most behavioral health practices have never measured their missed-call rate, and the loss never appears in a report because nobody logs a call that was not answered. Put your numbers in. Every assumption is editable.
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Your estimate
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in revenue lost per year to unanswered calls
- Missed calls per year
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- Missed new-patient inquiries
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- New patients lost for good
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- Lost revenue per month
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This is your estimate from your inputs, not a claim about your practice. The number most worth checking is the unanswered share, which almost every practice underestimates.
Why the number is large
You cannot miss what you never logged.
Three things make missed calls expensive in behavioral health specifically. A new patient is a course of treatment rather than a visit, so one lost inquiry is months of revenue. Callers deciding to seek care phone several practices in one sitting and book with whoever answers, so a next-day callback usually arrives too late. And a large share of demand arrives outside business hours, when the desk is empty by design. None of it shows up in a report, because an unanswered call is never entered anywhere.
Catch the ones who text instead
A meaningful share of behavioral health patients will not call at all. Patient messaging answers text and iMessage and books inside the thread.
Measure it first
Answer rate and after-hours volume are the two numbers to know. AI reporting pulls both from your phone and EHR data without a spreadsheet.
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The calculator, explained.
How does the calculator estimate lost revenue?
It multiplies your daily call volume by the share that go unanswered to get missed calls per year, takes the share of those that are new-patient inquiries, applies how many would have booked if answered and how many never call back, and multiplies the resulting lost patients by the value of a full course of treatment. Every step is a field you can change.
Where do the default numbers come from?
They are conservative starting points, not measurements of your practice. Most practices have never measured their missed-call rate and are surprised by it when they do. Replace the defaults with your own figures, and if you do not have them, the reporting section explains how to get them.
Why count a whole course of treatment instead of one appointment?
Because a missed new-patient call does not lose one slot. It loses the episode of care that never started: in behavioral health that is typically months of recurring sessions, plus the referrals that patient might have sent. Counting a single visit understates the loss by an order of magnitude.
Why do so many callers never call back?
A prospective patient deciding to seek care usually calls several practices in one sitting and books with whoever answers. A voicemail returned the next day frequently arrives after that decision was made. The callback rate is the field most practices should reduce, not raise, once they see their own data.
What share of calls do behavioral health practices typically miss?
It varies widely with staffing, and it is consistently higher than the team believes, because unanswered calls leave no record. After-hours volume, lunch gaps, and overflow during busy periods are the usual sources. Measuring it is the first step; the missed calls guide covers how.
What does the fix cost by comparison?
Stable's AI receptionist is priced as software rather than per minute or per hire, and it answers every call including overflow and after hours. For most practices the comparison to the number above is not close, which is the point of running the arithmetic.
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