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Patient portal software for balances and payments

A patient portal gives patients their own login for upcoming appointments, balances and payments, forms and shared documents, removing a phone call for each. MegAligna's portal covers appointments, card payments, intake and secure messaging. Full clinical records access is not included.

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What patients actually use a portal for

Most practices have watched a patient portal go unused: the login patients forget, tiles that lead nowhere, and a messaging inbox nobody has time to staff. Adoption follows a small number of concrete tasks — checking when the next appointment is, seeing what is owed, paying it, and completing forms before a first visit.

MegAligna’s portal covers those tasks and leaves out the rest. Messaging is here too, but only because the staff side that answers it is — an inbox nobody is responsible for is worse than no inbox. What is genuinely absent is named below as not included rather than shown as an inactive tile.

What the patient portal includes

  • Included

    Appointments at a glance

    Upcoming sessions with time, provider and location — the single most common reason a patient or guardian calls the front desk.

  • Included

    Balances and card payment

    The current balance, itemized, payable by card through the same hosted checkout the practice uses everywhere else. Card details never touch our systems.

  • Included

    Intake and documents

    Intake forms, consents to sign, and documents the practice shares — superbills and receipts included — in one place instead of an email thread.

  • Included

    Messaging with the practice

    A thread inside the record rather than email, which is not a HIPAA channel and lands in shared family inboxes. The staff side carries an unread count per chart, so answering is someone's defined responsibility rather than a shared mailbox nobody owns. Threads export with the chart and end when the guardian's access does.

  • Not included

    Full clinical records access

    Not included. Notes and clinical documentation remain practice-side. Patients see the documents the practice chooses to share with them, such as superbills and receipts.

What the portal collects before a first visit is covered in intake; what it does with an appointment is covered in scheduling.

Common questions

Do guardians get their own portal login?
Yes — for pediatric and dependent patients the login belongs to the guardian, consistent with how consents and billing already work. Which guardian sees which child follows the family structure on the record.
Is the portal included in the price?
Yes. Patient and guardian logins are not seats — seats are for staff. A thousand active portal users cost the practice nothing.
Why is messaging in the portal and not just email?
Email is not a HIPAA channel: it leaves the practice's control, lands in shared family inboxes, and there is no agreement with the recipient's mail provider. A thread inside the record is auditable, exports with the chart, and ends when the guardian's access ends. The staff side carries an unread count per chart so answering is someone's job rather than a shared mailbox nobody owns.

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14 days, no card required. Use made-up patients while you evaluate — real patient information waits until a business associate agreement is in place.

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