A Halloween fright your patients don’t want

As the nights draw in and the spirit of Halloween makes everyone a little bit jumpy, the last thing you want to do is scare your patients away because of the cost of a treatment. That’s where access to payment options can make all the difference.

The ghostly history of Halloween

Halloween has been observed since a time when dentures were wooden and leeches were a common remedy for all manner of illnesses. It is a conjunction of ‘All Hallows Eve’ and marks the night before All Saints (Hallows) Day. Celtic traditions take it even further back in time to the festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the summer and the start of the long dark days of winter. This is the moment, they believed, that the ghosts of departed souls came back among us. Nowadays we like to dress up, scare ourselves silly and, for children at least, eat more sweets than our precious teeth can handle.

Are you saintly or scary?

When it comes to dental and medical treatments, cast yourself firmly with the saints of 1st November rather than the scares of Halloween by ensuing your patients get the treatments they need without being spooked by a one-hit cost. You can do this by offering payment options to your patients.

Have a look at these two statements and decide which you think is scarier for a patient to hear during a consultation:

“I recommend this treatment for you and it costs £600, which is payable today” or

“I recommend this treatment for you and it could cost £50 per month for 12 months, subject to acceptance”

The latter allows your patient to make a decision about their treatment without having to suddenly find a large sum of money, which they either may not have or they may prefer to hold on to for any number of reasons. It could give them the freedom to make that decision based on their health or wellbeing needs rather than their immediate financial situation. And for you, it means you can carry out the treatments that you know are best for your patients while also knowing that you have given them a real choice about how they can pay for it.

Offer monthly payment options with Chrysalis Finance

Chrysalis Finance is the leading provider of financial solutions to the dental and healthcare sectors, building our reputation through our patient-focussed approach and the quality of our service to practices.

We have used our extensive experience to develop a range of patient payment solutions for you to offer your patients. The simple application process won’t scare anyone away, the decision time is so fast that your patient could apply on Halloween and have a decision by All Saints Day, and the whole process is almost spookily smooth, making it easy to manage for your team.

For your clinic, payment options open the door to enabling more treatments and gaining more patients, leading to a much-welcomed boost to your bottom line. From a cashflow perspective, it also means that you can get paid on time and in full. The finance agreement itself is between Chrysalis finance and the patient. So, there really is nothing to be scared of.

Don’t be afraid to make the change

If you think treatment costs might be scaring your patients away, get in touch today and we can help you to woo them back with the option to apply for monthly payment plans. We can get you set up in no time and we can also help you to advertise to your patients that payments options are available.