Cardiovascular Consultants
A 20-physician Phoenix heart practice replaced endless phone tag with text messaging — and grew patient payment collections by 280%, without adding staff.

The Results
Cardiovascular Consultants sees roughly 800 patients with a co-pay every day. Collecting on overdue self-pay balances meant placing over 2,000 phone calls a year — on top of regular mail correspondence — just to chase down payments.
65%
Reduction in write-offs
Busy Phoenix heart clinic reduces self-pay write-offs with OhMD
280%
Increase in self-pay payments
Patients more likely to pay via text message
1800
Messages sent in first month
Communicate with thousands of patients at once
Challenge
2,000+ calls. Still no payment.
Calling patients one by one was slow and frustrating — most calls went unanswered, and missed connections kicked off rounds of phone tag. Every day a bill sat unpaid, the odds of ever collecting it dropped. The practice was close to hiring four additional staff members just to keep up with call volume.e that their bills get paid is an arduous job
Solutions
Feature 1
Text-first communication
Nearly everyone already knows how to text, so rolling out OhMD required almost no patient training and minimal staff ramp-up.
Feature 1
Pay directly by text
Patients can settle their balance on the spot by tapping a payment link sent straight to their phone — no portal login, no mailed check.
Feature 3
Faster, more frequent follow-up
Staff still make calls when needed, but texting lets them reach far more patients, far more often, without adding headcount.
Real world results for a high volume practice
In the first month alone, the practice sent 1,800 text messages to self-pay patients — and the impact showed up fast.
280%
increase in self-pay payment collection rate
1800
messages sent in the first month
65%
reduction in self-pay write-offs

Don’t take our word for it
"Because we can communicate quickly, and often, OhMD increases our chances of getting paid."
Cicely Lee
Patient Collection Specialist, Cardiovascular Consultants