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Patient reactivation
Your patient list holds people who already know the practice and bought something. Reactivation works that list instead of buying new leads. It is slower and less exciting than a fresh ad campaign. It is also demand you already own.
How the work runs
You define dormant
Someone at the practice decides who counts as dormant. That definition can run on last visit, service type, or location. It stays yours to change.
You approve the wording
Nothing sends before the practice signs off on the copy. Strike a line, soften a claim, or hold a message back. The send waits until you say go.
Replies come to your team
A reply lands with your front desk, not a vendor inbox. Whoever owns the schedule handles the booking or the question. Declines and opt-outs route the same way.
AlphaSync runs the sending and the sequencing. The practice keeps the list, the wording, and every conversation that follows. The rest of the system sits on the how it works page.
Why the lapsed patient is the cheapest growth you have
A lapsed patient is not cold traffic. The practice already paid to find them. Bringing one back costs a message; finding a new patient costs a campaign and a consult.
That does not make reactivation certain. It makes it the cheapest growth the practice has, because the relationship is already there.
American Med Spa Association (AmSpa), 2024 Medical Spa State of the Industry Report.
American Med Spa Association (AmSpa), 2024 Medical Spa State of the Industry Report.
Industry averages across the practices AmSpa surveys. Not AlphaSync results, and there are none to publish.
What we can show you
No client results are published on this site. There are no case studies, no logos, and no testimonials to point at. What exists is the live system, and anyone can watch it work. Bring your own list to a growth session. We run it through the flow. Implementation is $10,000, then $3,000 a month.
If that does not suit the practice, say so on the call.
Who counts as dormant
There is no universal window, and any vendor handing you one is guessing about your practice. The window comes from the treatment cycle your team already knows: someone overdue for an injectable, a laser series that stopped halfway, a membership that lapsed.
The person who owns the definition owns the schedule, usually the owner or the practice manager. They write it in plain language — last visit date, service, location, contact permission — and the system applies exactly that. Nothing joins the list the practice did not put there.
Start narrow: two or three services, one location, the treatments your front desk already recalls by hand. Leave out anything where a return visit needs a clinician first. That patient is a call for your team, not a message.
The definition is reviewed on a schedule the practice sets, and the list is rebuilt from current records. If a field is missing, we say so during implementation rather than filling it in.
What the system sends, and when
Four message types do four different jobs. The practice chooses which run and approves each wording.
- Appointment reminders. A short message before a booked appointment, at the interval you set. There is measured evidence behind reminders: a Cochrane review of mobile phone messaging reminders for healthcare appointments found that reminders increase attendance.
- Recall for overdue treatments. A patient whose usual interval has passed gets one message inviting them to rebook. It names the appointment type on file, or nothing beyond the practice name.
- Win-back for patients who have not returned. A longer gap and a softer message, with no offer unless the practice asks for one.
- Waitlist filling for cancelled slots. When a cancellation opens a slot, the system offers it to patients who agreed to hear about openings, without describing the slot beyond what the practice approves.
Channels are the practice's call: text, email, or a call attempt from your front desk's number. So is the cadence: how many touches, the gap between them, the hours a message may go out, and where the sequence ends.
The sequence stops the moment a patient books, replies, declines, or asks to be left alone. Opt-outs are honoured when they arrive and recorded against the patient's record. The same stop rules govern lead follow-up for new enquiries, on the speed to lead page.
Reminder messages and attendance: Gurol-Urganci I, et al. Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD007458.
Operational follow-up and marketing are not the same thing
This is the boundary that matters.
Operational follow-up is appointment reminders and care coordination: messages a practice sends because someone is already a patient there. Marketing is promotion: an offer, a package, a discount, a win-back written to sell something. Promotional messages that use health information generally need the patient's prior written authorization, and permission for treatment and operations does not cover marketing.
So the system runs on the practice's consent rules and keeps treatment detail out of outbound messages by default. A recall message can be as plain as an invitation to book. Where a promotion would reference a treatment, that message waits for the authorization that makes it legitimate.
Patient lists are never uploaded to advertising or retargeting audiences.
The practice stays the sender, and the record of what went out belongs to the practice. Patient data is handled to HIPAA standards, and a Business Associate Agreement is available. AlphaSync is a software vendor to practices and does not provide medical care.
Review, sign-off, and what you see
AlphaSync drafts the first pass of every message from the practice's own material: your services, your hours, your tone. Nothing sends before the practice signs off. A reviewer can rewrite a line, cut a claim, or hold a message back.
A review round is small: usually one person — the owner, the practice manager, or the coordinator who knows the patients — reading short messages and replying with edits. Two rounds are usually enough before the first send.
Replies come to your team, not a vendor inbox. Bookings, questions, declines and opt-outs route to the front desk, and the outcome is written back against the patient's record. Someone at the practice checks that record on a schedule.
What the practice sees is campaign-level reporting: messages out, delivered, replies, appointments booked, opt-outs, and which list and location they came from. That is campaign reporting, not a clinical record, and it never goes to an advertising platform.
It sits alongside the booking system you already run
We do not ask the practice to move its calendar, change its phone number, or migrate its patient records. The system is configured against the setup you already run: your calendar, your phone routing, your patient list.
A reactivated patient books into the calendar your front desk already uses, with your treatment lengths, provider rules and locations. Where a connection is not clean, we say so before go-live.
Reactivation does not replace the front desk either. The system runs the sending and sequencing; your team handles the conversation when a patient replies. The voice side is on the AI receptionist for med spas page, the price is on the pricing page, and the fastest way to see it run is to book a growth session.