What's your cancellation policy for a scheduled session?
What physical therapy clinics need to publish
Recurring appointment services generate this question constantly, and a clear answer prevents billing disputes.
How customers actually ask it
The same intent arrives in wording your page probably does not use. All of these mean the same thing:
- “What's your cancellation policy for a scheduled session?”
- “missed appointment fee”
- “reschedule a PT visit”
- “no show charge”
What a complete answer contains
For physical therapy clinics specifically, an answer is only complete when it covers all 4:
- 1
Notice period required
- 2
Any fee for late cancellation or no-show
- 3
How to actually reschedule
- 4
Whether insurance is billed for a missed visit
A worked example
Illustrative — not a real business
We ask for 24 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule without a fee. Less notice than that is a $40 missed-visit fee, since that slot is reserved just for you and insurance isn't billed for a session that didn't happen. Reschedule through the patient portal or by calling us.
Which page should own it
Scheduling and cancellation policy page
What silence costs
An unclear cancellation policy is a recurring source of billing surprise for a service with frequent, ongoing appointments.
More questions physical therapy clinics get
- Do I need a doctor's referral for physical therapy?
- Is it normal for this exercise to hurt?
- Do I need a doctor's referral before I can start physical therapy?
- Is it normal for the exercises to hurt, or does pain mean I should stop?
- How many sessions will I actually need before I'm better?
- What should I actually wear and bring to a physical therapy appointment?
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AI customer support for physical therapy clinics
Physical therapy patients contact the clinic between visits more than almost any other outpatient specialty — mostly logistics, but sometimes a question that sounds like 'is it okay that this exercise hurts.' RubyRep answers the logistics fully and treats any question about modifying, progressing or continuing an exercise as one for the treating therapist, never itself.
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What is AI customer service?
AI customer service means answering customer questions with a language model rather than a person. The useful implementations are grounded in a specific business's own content; the poor ones let a general model improvise, which produces confident answers that are wrong.
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What is a knowledge base?
Traditionally a knowledge base is a help centre humans read. For AI support it is the source material a representative answers from — which means an ordinary website, well written, can serve as one without a separate help centre.
Does your site answer this already?
Point RubyRep at your website and ask it this exact question. If it cannot answer, neither can your customers.