Built for medical practices
After you close, most services drop callers into voicemail or read a generic script. Lydoh runs real triage: 911 deflection, urgent-vs-routine the patient chooses, and live escalation to your on-call provider, so urgent patients reach a person and routine ones wait for morning.
Flat $199/mo · no per-minute billing · setup in under 10 minutes
911 deflection, urgent-vs-routine the patient chooses, and live escalation to your on-call provider.
The after-hours problem
Evenings, weekends, and holidays are when a patient with an urgent concern is most anxious, and least likely to reach anyone. Voicemail loses the call. A per-minute answering service reads from a card and pages your provider with a lag, and the bill balloons on a busy night. Neither one reliably separates "my incision looks red" from "I need to reschedule Tuesday."
How Lydoh handles an after-hours call
Set a single on-call provider, a weekly round-robin, or a day-of-week schedule. Then add date overrides for holidays, vacations, and last-minute coverage swaps, overrides always win. Lydoh resolves the right provider in your timezone at the moment each call comes in, so the schedule is never stale.
Escalation record · timestamped
For a medical practice, "who was reached, and when" matters. Every urgent after-hours call becomes an escalation record, each provider dialed, whether they accepted, and the timestamps, visible in your dashboard. It's the difference between "we have an answering service" and "we can show exactly what happened at 11:42pm."
Weighing your options? See the full breakdown in AI receptionist vs. traditional answering service, how we handle patient data in HIPAA-compliant answering, and how to bill these calls in the telephone E/M billing guide. Or see after-hours coverage by specialty: dental, pediatrics, OB-GYN, and dermatology.
FAQ
Voicemail captures nothing reliably, and a traditional answering service reads a script and takes a message that reaches your provider on a delay. Lydoh triages: it deflects emergencies to 911, lets the patient say whether it's urgent or routine, and for urgent calls it actually reaches your on-call provider, dialing them, waiting for them to accept, and cascading to the next provider if no one answers. Every attempt is timestamped.
No. Lydoh never makes a clinical judgment and never gives medical advice. It opens with a 911 reminder and asks the caller to choose urgent or routine. The patient decides; Lydoh only routes. Clinical triage stays with your licensed staff.
When a caller flags an urgent matter, Lydoh tells them they'll be called right back, then phones your on-call provider with a short prompt to accept the call. On accept, the provider is connected to the patient. If they don't answer, Lydoh moves to the next provider in your rotation, and if no one accepts, it texts your whole on-call team the callback details so nothing is dropped.
Yes, single provider, weekly rotation, or day-of-week schedules, plus date overrides for holidays, vacations, and coverage swaps that always take priority. Lydoh resolves who's on call in your practice's timezone at the exact moment each call arrives.
Traditional services bill per minute or per call, so a busy night gets expensive and unpredictable. Lydoh is a flat $199/month with a 14-day free trial, after-hours triage and on-call escalation are included, not add-ons.
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