More medicine. Less everything else.
You went into medicine to examine, diagnose and treat. PhyPal takes the work that surrounds those minutes — the intake, the authorization chase, the record hunting, the "how are they doing?" — and makes it complete, structured and visible before it reaches you.
What changes for you
Four moments in your day, handled.
Before the visit
Patients complete a guided intake on their phone — history, mechanism of injury, function, medications, prior imaging — and it lands in your chart as structured data, not a transcript.
When you order treatment
Your order becomes a complete authorization request: validated, with the right notes attached, submitted and tracked. The determination comes back into your workflow instead of a fax tray.
When records arrive
Outside records are classified and organized into a chronology with page-level sources, so the relevant history is in front of you — not buried in 400 pages.
Between visits
Short check-ins capture adherence, function and symptom change. Setbacks surface to your team when they happen, not at the next appointment.
Your judgment stays yours. PhyPal never makes a clinical decision, never writes your note and never submits anything you did not order. It prepares, validates, tracks and returns — the physician decides.
By specialty
What a day looks like with PhyPal, in your specialty.
Orthopedics & Spine
Imaging, injections and surgery authorizations — moving, not stalled.
Orthopedic and spine practices generate the highest-friction requests in workers' compensation: advanced imaging, epidural injections, PT blocks, surgical consults and procedures. Each one needs the exam, the imaging result and the conservative-care history attached, or it comes back as a request for information.
- MRI, ESI, PT and surgical RFAs assembled with the exam, imaging and prior-care documentation the reviewer will look for
- Pre-visit intake captures mechanism, dominant side, radicular symptoms and function scores before you walk in
- Post-op check-ins track function and home-program adherence by week
- Outside records organized into a chronology with page sources for second opinions and QME prep
| Patient / request | Submitted | Status | Clock |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. AlvarezLumbar MRI · 72148 | Oct 3 | Approved | |
| J. OkaforPT 2×/wk × 6 · 97110 | Oct 6 | Info requested | |
| R. ChenESI L4-5 · 64483 | Oct 7 | Under review · day 3 | |
| D. PatelOrtho consult · 99244 | Oct 8 | Modified | |
| S. NguyenShoulder arthroscopy · 29827 | Today | Validated · ready to send |
Rheumatology
Longitudinal disease, captured longitudinally.
Rheumatology lives on trajectory: disease activity, function, flares, medication response and side effects over months and years. The visit is too short to reconstruct all of it, and a chart full of free text does not trend.
- Structured patient-reported function and symptom scores between visits, trended in one view
- Medication and treatment history captured once and reused — including prior biologic trials and responses
- Flares and side effects reported when they happen, surfaced to your team
- Specialty-drug and infusion authorizations prepared with the documentation payers require
"PhyPal has facilitated the collection of data, making my work faster and easier allowing me to spend my time analyzing the problems and communicating directly with the patients." — Richard Jimenez, MD, Rheumatology
Pain Management & PM&R
Documentation that matches the guideline the reviewer is reading.
Pain and physiatry requests are judged against the MTUS and ODG line by line: functional goals, prior conservative care, response to the last injection, risk screening and weaning plans. When any of it is missing, the request is denied and the patient waits.
- RFAs for injections, programs and medications carry functional goals, prior-treatment response and risk documentation in the structure reviewers expect
- Patient intake captures pain, function and psychosocial factors in validated instruments, not narrative
- Between-visit tracking shows whether a treatment is working before the next request goes out
- IMR and appeal preparation starts from a complete, dated record
Occupational Medicine
Volume, timeliness and the 30-day window.
Occupational Medicine runs on throughput and deadlines: first-30-day treatment, work-status reporting, PR-2s and a steady flow of referrals to specialists and therapy. The practice that keeps every request complete and on the clock keeps injured workers moving.
- Injury intake captures mechanism, employer, claim details and job demands before the first visit
- Referral and therapy authorizations validated and tracked against regulatory timeframes
- Work-status and return-to-work progress captured between visits
- Status visible across the team — front desk, MA, physician — without phone calls
In your workflow
Not another login.
PhyPal is designed to sit inside the EHR and practice systems you already use. Orders go out from where you write them; intake, status and outcomes come back to where you read. If a step cannot be automated safely, a person on your team sees it as a task — not a surprise.
- Works alongside your EHR; no re-keying
- Deterministic validation on the critical steps, AI where it adds leverage
- HIPAA-aligned operations with access controls and audit trails
FAQ
Questions physicians ask first.
Will this add clicks to my day?
The goal is the opposite. Intake arrives structured before the visit; authorizations are generated from the order you already write; outcomes are collected from the patient, not from you. Where a human decision is needed, it shows up as a task for your team.
Does PhyPal make or influence clinical decisions?
No. PhyPal prepares and organizes — it does not recommend treatment, decide medical necessity, or write medical-legal opinions. The physician forms every clinical judgment.
Which EHRs does PhyPal work with?
PhyPal integrates around the systems a practice already uses rather than replacing them. Tell us your EHR and practice-management system on the contact form and we will confirm the integration path.
Can I start with just one workflow?
Yes — most practices start with authorizations or intake and add the others later. Each pilot begins with a baseline and the metrics that will be reported.