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A practice site that answers the new patient before they call.

A new patient has a list of questions and none of them are about your mission statement. Do you take my insurance. Am I filling in forms in the waiting room or at home. Where do I park. What actually happens at the first visit. A practice site that answers those four is doing the job.

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The price

What it costs.

Website design & build

Up front

$750 once

Designed and built for your business, one time.

Website design & build

Every month

$99 /mo
  • Custom design
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Hosting, SSL, backups
  • Ongoing edits
  • Your domain in your name

The same published price wherever you are and whatever you do. It can be bought on its own or folded into a monthly plan on the pricing page.

The new-patient questions

The four things people check before calling.

Insurance first, because it is the one that ends the visit. Write out the plans you are in network with, by name, and say plainly what happens for somebody whose plan is not listed. The alternative is a page saying you accept most major insurance, which puts the reader on the phone asking what the site could have answered.

The other three are logistics, and logistics is what gets skipped. Paperwork should be reachable before the visit. Parking should say where, whether it is validated, which entrance and which floor. And the first visit should be described as a sequence, because many nervous patients are not price-shopping — they are trying to find out how bad it will be.

Readable

Who is actually reading a practice website.

The audience skews older, more anxious and more likely to be on a phone in a parking garage. So the boring things matter more here: type big enough to read without pinching, contrast that survives daylight, buttons a thumb can hit, and a page that does not shuffle while it loads.

Accessibility is worth attention for the same reason. Real alternative text, headings in order, form labels attached to their fields, everything reachable from a keyboard. I build that way because a practice's patients include people who need it, not to earn a badge. I do not sell a certification for it.

The boundary

What this build is not.

This is a public marketing website. It is not a patient portal, not a records system, and it does not connect to your practice management software. Those are vendors the practice already licenses. The site links out to them, clearly labeled, so a patient knows when they are leaving.

The same boundary shapes the forms. An appointment request asks for a name, a phone number, a preferred time and which provider, and nothing clinical. If somebody wants to describe a symptom, the page tells them to call. A request only needs enough to ring the person back.

The content

What this site needs that a generic one does not.

Getting it built

What I need out of the practice.

1. The insurance list, from the office

Whatever the front desk actually works from. If nobody can produce a current one, this is where a practice finds out.

2. Walk me through a first visit

Door to check-out desk. I write it the way you say it, and it becomes the page that stops the same call arriving daily.

3. Provider bios and credentials

Names, qualifications, where they trained, years in practice. What you hold goes up, and nothing else does.

4. Tell me which vendors stay

Portal, scheduling, records, payments. The site hands off to them rather than replacing them.

What this normally costs

The comparison, honestly.

An agency build plus a monthly SEO retainer

$1,000+/mo once the build is amortized

The usual shape: a project fee up front, then a retainer that covers the site and the search work together.

Website design & build

$750 up front, then $99/mo

One published price, one invoice, and the work is done for you.

Figures are typical market ranges shown for illustration, not quotes from named providers. Many vendors price by seat, contact or location and keep pricing behind a sales call.

Questions

Frequently asked

What should a dental or medical practice website include?

The plans you are in network with by name, forms reachable in advance, parking and entrance detail, a plain description of the first visit, each provider with the credentials they hold, hours, and a simple appointment request.

Do you build a patient portal?

No. Portals, records and anything clinical stay with the systems the practice already licenses. The website links to them and is clear the patient is leaving.

Should we publish our fees?

Publish what is genuinely fixed and does not depend on coverage — an exam, a hygiene visit, whitening. For the rest, say the number depends on the plan and describe how the office works it out.

Can the site connect to our scheduling software?

Usually it can hand off to it. If your scheduler offers a link or an embed, the site uses it and the request form becomes the fallback. If it offers neither, the site does not pretend to have live availability.

Is the website accessible?

It is built to be readable and operable: alternative text, headings in order, labeled fields, keyboard navigation, and type and contrast that work for older eyes on a phone. That is engineering, not a certificate.

Is there a contract?

Not on this. Growth, marketing and website services — including the website care plan — are month-to-month with no long-term commitment, and you can prepay annually for up to two months free. Payment processing is a separate thing: it is a merchant account and it has its own terms, which I go over with you personally on the free review so everything is clear before you decide.

Can I cancel?

Yes, any month. There is no cancellation fee and no notice period to argue about on the month-to-month services — I would rather earn the next month than hold you to a term you regret. If you cancel a website plan the domain is yours, registered in your name, and you can take the site elsewhere.

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