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Healthcare phone systems, from the carrier up.

VoIP for healthcare is not one product — a two-chair clinic and a five-building hospital are buying different layers of the same network. SIPNEX is the FCC-licensed carrier under both: cloud PBX for the practice that wants a phone system, SIP trunking for the institution that already owns one, and numbers backed by a BAA wherever patient information gets stored. Start by finding your row below.

Find your segment

Six healthcare buyers, six right answers.

Feature checklists make every healthcare phone system look identical. Buyers aren't. Each segment below routes to the solution built for how that organization actually answers a phone.

Solo & small practices

One number, a schedule-aware attendant, voicemail-to-email, and an extension on every desk and cell — no server closet, no per-feature tiers. Cloud PBX priced per extension.

Dental offices

The front-desk workflow build: recall and confirmation texting on the practice number, after-hours on-call routing, and a fax path that survives the copper sunset. Dental office phone system.

Medical offices & clinics

Multi-provider scheduling lines, nurse triage routing, and reminder texting on the clinic's own number — sized from two providers to a multi-site group. Medical office phone system.

Hospitals & health systems

The infrastructure buy: redundant SIP trunking under the PBX you already run, E911 dispatchable location, and a migration plan for the analog estate. Hospital phone systems.

Therapists & behavioral health

A solo practice's needs are their own: a second number that isn't your cell, a compliant voicemail box, and client texting handled carefully. HIPAA phone service for therapists.

Patient texting programs

Appointment reminders and two-way patient messaging on the number patients already know — registered A2P texting with the BAA covering stored threads. HIPAA-compliant texting.

The compliance question

No phone number is HIPAA-compliant by itself.

Every segment above eventually asks for "a HIPAA-compliant phone number," and the honest answer is that no such inventory exists — a number is ten digits of routing. Compliance lives in what happens behind it. A plain phone call is carriage, and a carrier moving it with only transient access sits under HIPAA's conduit treatment.

The analysis starts where patient information gets stored: the voicemail box on that number, the recordings of its calls, the text threads it carries. Those are the functions a business associate agreement has to cover, and those are the functions SIPNEX signs BAAs for — voicemail, call recording, and texting on your organization's numbers, whichever of them your deployment turns on. The full map of that boundary, including what to demand from any vendor claiming the phrase, is in our HIPAA-compliant phone service guide. Your compliance officer's questions have specific answers; the guide holds them.

What every segment shares

One carrier layer under all six doors.

Whichever door you entered through, the network underneath is the same one: SIPNEX is an FCC-licensed carrier with direct authorization — not a reseller — signing outbound calls at A-level attestation with our own STIR/SHAKEN certificate, so a clinic's calls reach patients carrier-vouched instead of carrying the unverified B-level signing that spam-label engines penalize on every call. FCC Form 499 filer, Robocall Mitigation Database registered, RespOrg for toll-free numbers, E911 with dispatchable location available in the 50 US states, and a 99.99% uptime posture backed by a published service level agreement. Hospitals inspect this layer before buying; small practices inherit it without asking. Volume buyers can read the per-minute carrier rate tiers directly — the same sheet our wholesale customers run on.

Frequently asked

Healthcare telephony questions, answered.

What is a HIPAA-compliant phone number?
There is no special inventory of compliant numbers — a HIPAA-compliant phone number is an ordinary local or toll-free DID whose deployment is compliant: the functions that store patient information behind it (voicemail, call recording, text threads) run with safeguards, and the provider has signed a business associate agreement covering them. SIPNEX supplies the number from carrier inventory and signs the BAA covering the stored-PHI functions you deploy on it, which is the entire recipe.
Which phone system does a healthcare organization actually need?
It splits cleanly by buyer. Practices and clinics without phone infrastructure want a cloud PBX — attendant, extensions, texting, priced per extension. Hospitals and health systems that already run a PBX want carrier SIP trunking underneath it, with redundancy and E911 provisioning. Solo behavioral-health providers usually need one well-configured number and a compliant voicemail box. The wrong answer is buying a hospital architecture for a three-operatory office, or a small-office bundle for a facility that never closes.
What does VoIP for healthcare cost?
Two price sheets, depending on which side of the split you sit on. Cloud PBX for practices is per-extension: from $6.99 per extension monthly with every feature included and no contract. Carrier trunking for hospitals and groups is per-minute by volume, with the full tier sheet published on our pricing page. Neither sheet hides per-feature tiers behind the quote.
Can one carrier serve both a two-provider clinic and a hospital system?
Yes — because they consume different layers of the same network. The clinic takes the cloud PBX that runs on top of it; the hospital takes the SIP trunks that run underneath its own PBX. Same FCC-licensed carriage, same STIR/SHAKEN signing, same BAA posture at the storage line — packaged for opposite ends of the buying spectrum. Group practices that grow into owning a PBX simply move down a layer without changing carriers or numbers.
Does E911 work for multi-location healthcare organizations?
Yes, and multi-line systems are exactly where the law concentrates: direct 911 dialing with no prefix, on-site notification when 911 is dialed, and a dispatchable location — street address plus suite, floor, or wing — conveyed with the call. SIPNEX provisions E911 with dispatchable location for the numbers your system presents, available in the 50 US states, and registering each clinic location is part of deployment rather than an afterthought.
Where does patient texting fit in a healthcare phone deployment?
On the practice's own number, not a random shortcode. Appointment reminders and two-way patient messaging run as registered A2P texting on the same DID patients already call, so replies land where staff can see them. Because text threads are stored patient information, they sit on the BAA side of the line — SIPNEX signs for them — and clinical detail stays out of message bodies as a matter of workflow.

Tell us which door you came through.

Practice, clinic, group, or health system — describe how your organization answers a phone today and where patient information gets stored. You get back the right layer, the BAA that covers it, and a same-day quote.

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