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Reviews & Reputation
We don't leave reviews to chance. We build a process that generates a steady stream of five-star reviews from your actual patients, and handles the responses without putting your practice on the wrong side of HIPAA.
Get Your Free Growth Plan→Happy patients rarely leave reviews on their own. Unhappy ones always do. Someone who finished twelve visits and got their life back does not think to post about it. Someone who waited forty minutes in your reception area posts before they reach the parking lot.
Left alone, that imbalance decides what your practice looks like to everyone searching for care in your town. And it gets worse than a bruised ego, because Google treats review volume, recency, and rating as ranking signals. Fewer reviews and a softer average push your Google Business Profile down the map pack.
You end up invisible and untrusted at the same time, harder to find, and less convincing to the people who do find you.
The system
The whole game is asking every patient, at the point in their care when they are most glad they came to you, and then making it take fifteen seconds.
The part generic software gets wrong
This is where most reputation tools quietly put clinics at risk. Their response templates were written for contractors and restaurants, where "Thanks for coming in Tuesday, glad the repair worked out" is a friendly reply. From a covered entity, that same sentence confirms a person received treatment from you, a disclosure of protected health information, published publicly, by you.
The rule in one line
Never confirm the person was a patient.
Not in a thank-you, not in an apology, and least of all in a correction. Even responding to a factually wrong review by explaining what actually happened in the visit is a disclosure. The reply has to be warm, accountable, and completely silent on whether this person ever walked through your door.
✗ Discloses PHI
"So sorry your shoulder didn't improve after the six sessions with Dr. Ellis, please come back in and we'll reassess."
✓ Safe and still human
"We take this feedback seriously and would genuinely like to understand more. Please call us at the clinic and ask for the practice manager."
Ready when you are
Pick a time right here. Thirty minutes, no pressure, and a straight answer on what it would take to own your local market.
Pick A Time→Handling the bad ones
Every practice gets one eventually. What matters is what the next prospective patient sees sitting underneath it.
A perfect 5.0 with no negatives reads as suspicious, patients assume the bad ones were scrubbed. A strong rating with thoughtful responses underneath reads as a real practice that stands behind its work. That is the target, and it is a more achievable one.
The compounding effect
Reputation is the one asset that makes everything else you are running work better. It is the reason we treat it as infrastructure rather than an add-on.
Review volume, recency, and rating are direct local ranking signals. A stronger profile climbs the map pack, and the map pack is where the calls are.
Local SEO→Someone who clicks your ad checks your reviews before they call. A weak profile means you pay for the click and lose the patient anyway.
Google Ads→Review signals help decide which clinics AI assistants name when someone asks who to see. Sentiment feeds the answer, not just the ranking.
SEO + GEO→Reviews only pay off if someone sees them at the moment of doubt. Your rating and newest reviews belong on the pages where visitors hesitate.
Web Design→We'll audit what patients are already saying about you, show you where you stand against the clinics you compete with, and set up the system that keeps the reviews coming.
Get Your Free Growth Plan→Straight answers
Asking is not the problem. Responding is where practices get themselves into trouble.
A patient may say whatever they like about their own care. You may not confirm it. Replying to a negative review with anything that acknowledges the person was treated at your clinic, or mentions their condition or visit, is a disclosure of protected health information published permanently and publicly. It happens constantly, usually written by an upset owner at eleven at night.
Respond, but respond to the reader rather than to the reviewer. The audience for that reply is not the person who wrote it. It is the next four hundred people deciding whether to call you.
Acknowledge that feedback matters, state your standard, invite them to contact the practice directly, and confirm nothing. A calm reply to an unfair review persuades people. An angry, detailed rebuttal loses you patients and can breach a federal statute in the same paragraph.
Only if they violate the platform's policies, and we will flag those. Most negative reviews do not, and anybody promising removal as a service is either lying or planning something that will get your profile penalised.
The realistic answer is dilution and pattern. Steady genuine volume moves the average and pushes old complaints down where nobody reads them. It is slower than deletion and it is the only approach that survives contact with the platforms.
More than the practice two streets away, and consistently more each month. It is a relative measure, not a threshold you cross once.
Volume, recency and rating all feed local ranking, and recency is the one clinics forget. A practice with two hundred reviews, none in the last year, looks closed. A practice with forty reviews and three this month looks busy, and gets treated accordingly by both the algorithm and the reader.
No. It is against Google's policies, it violates the FTC's rules on endorsements, and in a healthcare setting it invites a much more serious conversation about inducements.
It is also unnecessary, which is the part owners find hardest to believe. The reason your happy patients have not left reviews is not insufficient motivation. It is that nobody asked them at the moment they felt grateful. Fix the timing and the volume problem solves itself.
Yes, and they affect something worth more than ranking, which is whether the person who sees you decides to call.
Ranking first with a 3.9 average next to a competitor at 4.8 is an expensive kind of visibility. You are paying in effort to be seen losing. Be wary of a perfect 5.0 with no negatives, incidentally. Readers assume it was scrubbed. A strong average with a handful of imperfect reviews handled gracefully reads as real, because it is.
The sequence differs by discipline: here is how it runs for a physical therapy practice and how it differs for a chiropractic clinic.
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