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Telephone Script - Standard Call Processing
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“Welcome to the (Name) Clinic at Southwestern Medical Center.   To connect you as quickly as possible to someone who can help you, please choose one of the 4 options.  You can interrupt by selecting an option at any time.  If you are calling from a physician’s office, please press “9”.  (See script for physician office calls below.)

 

For appointment scheduling, press ‘1.’

If you are a new patient, press ‘1.’

Existing patients should press ‘2.’

To return to the main menu, press ‘0.’

{Silent ‘3’ is for clinic to clinic scheduling requests.}[1]

 

For instructions regarding prescription refills, press ‘2.’

If you are a patient, press ‘1.’

Patients are requested to contact their pharmacist for prescription refills.  If you have changed pharmacies and are unable to transfer your prescription; or, the pharmacist has indicated that you must contact your physician, please wait on the line[2]to be transferred to a clinic representative.

If you are a pharmacy, press ‘2.’

Refill requests should be faxed to 214-64X-XXXX.   Please include the patient’s name, telephone, social security number, date of birth, physician’s name, name of medication to be refilled, last refill date, pharmacy name, telephone and fax numbers.  Faxes and messages are retrieved throughout the business day.  If you need to speak to the clinic immediately, press ‘1’, otherwise leave a message after the tone.

To return to the main menu, press ‘0.’

 

For medical questions, or if you require urgent medical attention, press ‘3.’

 

For billing, insurance, or treatment authorizations, press ‘4.’

For billing inquiries, press ‘1.’

For insurance or treatment authorizations, press ‘2.’

To return to the main menu, press ‘0.’

 

                                                 When a Physician’s Office selects “9”:

                                                             To speak with a clinic representative, press ‘1’.

                                                             To schedule a patient appointment, press ‘2’.

                                                             To return to the main menu, press ‘0’.

 

{Silent ‘8’ for UT Southwestern physician calls}[3]

 

To repeat these menu options, just press ‘star.’

<2 second pause>

If none of these choices meet your needs, please press “0” or wait on the line2 for the first available clinic representative.”[4]

 



[1]This will route to the existing patient scheduling queue with priority in the queue.

[2]Pressing ‘0’ will also route the call to a ‘live body.’

[3]This will route to the nurses station or another general answering area with top priority in the queue.

[4]This will route to another general area (not the schedulers) where the call will be triaged into the proper queue.