# Private-practice client intake

Coordinate a client inquiry through administrative review, source-system records, scheduling, and first-appointment readiness.

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**Template ID:** private-practice-client-intake-checklist
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**Planning anchor:** Proposed first appointment — The proposed first appointment date; intake readiness is scheduled before it and record follow-up after it.

## Inquiry

Create a neutral source-system record, assign ownership, and acknowledge next steps.

- [ ] **Immediately route urgency and safety signals** — Urgent priority
  On receipt, if information may indicate urgent or emergency handling is needed, use the practice’s approved immediate process; do not wait for the proposed appointment or use this task board for monitoring.
  - [ ] Approved immediate-response owner is alerted
  - [ ] Task board is not relied on for emergency monitoring

- [ ] **Create a neutral inquiry reference** — High priority · Due 7 days before the planning anchor
  Create the prospective-client record in the approved system and use only its neutral reference for task coordination here.
  - [ ] Approved source-system record is created
  - [ ] Operational tasks use a neutral reference only

- [ ] **Assign the response owner and target** — Medium priority · Due 7 days before the planning anchor
  Name the person responsible for the next approved communication and record the practice response target and contingency owner.
  - [ ] Response owner accepts the handoff
  - [ ] Response target and contingency path are set

- [ ] **Send approved intake expectations** — High priority · Due 6 days before the planning anchor
  Use the practice-approved channel and copy to explain the intake process, response timing, emergency boundary, and next required action.
  - [ ] Communication uses the approved channel
  - [ ] Timing and emergency boundaries are included

- [ ] **Confirm minimum administrative inputs** — Medium priority · Due 6 days before the planning anchor
  Verify in the approved system that only the minimum information needed for authorized routing and scheduling review is available.
  - [ ] Required administrative inputs are present
  - [ ] Clinical detail is not copied into operational tasks

## Fit & boundaries

Route suitability, urgency, scope, availability, and service boundaries to authorized owners.

- [ ] **Route the authorized fit and scope review** — High priority · Due 5 days before the planning anchor
  Assign the inquiry to the qualified practice owner who decides scope, suitability, licensure, capacity, and any required escalation.
  - [ ] Qualified decision owner is assigned
  - [ ] Decision is preserved in the approved record

- [ ] **Confirm service and payment boundaries** — Medium priority · Due 4 days before the planning anchor
  Have authorized owners confirm service format, availability, fees, payment method, and insurance or referral workflow where applicable.
  - [ ] Service boundaries are confirmed by the owner
  - [ ] Approved payment or coverage path is confirmed

- [ ] **Record the intake decision and next path** — High priority · Due 3 days before the planning anchor
  Record the authoritative proceed, wait, refer, or not-accepted outcome in the approved system and assign its communication owner.
  - [ ] Authoritative intake outcome is recorded
  - [ ] Next communication has an accountable owner

## Records & scheduling

Complete approved notices, consent, payment, scheduling, and communication workflows.

- [ ] **Complete required notice and consent records** — High priority · Due 3 days before the planning anchor
  Route practice-approved privacy, service, communication, consent, and acknowledgement records through their authoritative system.
  - [ ] Required records are routed through approved systems
  - [ ] Completion status is authoritative outside this checklist

- [ ] **Complete approved payment setup** — Medium priority · Due 2 days before the planning anchor
  Use the authorized payment or billing system to complete required setup without placing account, card, insurance, or financial details here.
  - [ ] Setup uses the approved payment or billing system
  - [ ] Financial and coverage details stay out of tasks

- [ ] **Schedule the first appointment authoritatively** — High priority · Due 2 days before the planning anchor
  Confirm date, format, location or approved connection method, clinician, reminders, cancellation terms, and time zone in the scheduling system.
  - [ ] Appointment is in the authoritative schedule
  - [ ] Approved practical instructions are delivered

## First appointment

Verify practical readiness, conduct the appointment, and update authoritative records.

- [ ] **Verify first-appointment readiness** — High priority · Due 1 day before the planning anchor
  Confirm required administrative records, clinician assignment, room or approved connection, accessibility arrangements, and contingency path.
  - [ ] Required administrative records are ready
  - [ ] Visit logistics and contingency path are ready

- [ ] **Complete the post-appointment record check when a visit occurs** — High priority · Due 1 day after the planning anchor
  When an appointment occurs, ask authorized owners to confirm the scheduling, payment, clinical, consent, and follow-up records required by practice procedure are current.
  - [ ] Required source-system records are current
  - [ ] Outstanding follow-up has an accountable owner

- [ ] **Promptly complete the not-accepted closeout when applicable** — High priority
  Promptly after a not-accepted decision, confirm approved communication, referral information where appropriate, record disposition, and removal of unnecessary access; do not wait for the proposed appointment.
  - [ ] Authoritative communication status is recorded
  - [ ] Required record and access closeout is complete

## Done

Verified intake work moves here after its authoritative outcome is recorded.

_Move completed work here._

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Usage notice: This template is general operational guidance, not legal, medical, tax, security, employment, compliance, or other professional advice. It does not establish compliance, and its publication is not evidence of outside professional review or approval. Review and adapt it with the responsible organizational owners, and obtain appropriate professional advice before regulated use.
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