Suffice to say after recently reading an article about outrage on behalf of participating physicians and providers due to potential increasing fees and costs for participating and using the service to get new patients and business, I felt a wave of disappointment. Seemed like the perfect system, and the app would even let me know if I was due for an annual eye or dental exam, eliminating the need for a paper calendar (though haven’t those become obsolete in our digital era now anyways)? I had been using Zocdoc for myself and family quite frequently due to the convenience factor, ease of scheduling, ability to seamlessly schedule and receive appointment reminders, and input insurance information easily.īest of all, there are usually options to save on time and paper waste by inputing all of the new patient information you’d traditionally fill out in person prior to your appointment electronically using the app itself.

While we typically do not think about apps and services like GrubHub, Seamless, or Zocdoc from merchant perspectives (after all, the majority of us are on the consumer end and users of these services due to the convenience factors), we often fail to realize how much these fees add up for annually for participants, meaning restaurant owners and physicians.

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