Case study · Healthcare · Multi-clinic group

How a seven-clinic group removed a two-day payroll reconciliation cycle

Patient inquiry handling and staff attendance were treated as unrelated problems by two unrelated vendors. Unifying them on one data core surfaced a link nobody had seen.

MediCore Clinics · 7 clinics · 210 staff · mixed fixed and mobile workforce

Illustrative scenario

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Before

Where they started.

  • Patient inquiries handled at each reception with a paper register and a shared inbox, no response-time standard
  • Biometric device at each clinic covering fixed staff only; home-visit and multi-site staff self-reporting attendance
  • Separate attendance vendor and payroll vendor, requiring a monthly export, reformat and upload
  • One to two days of finance and HR time per month on payroll reconciliation, plus a recurring queue of deduction disputes
  • Patient queries about reports and bills arriving on WhatsApp and going unanswered
  • No comparable inquiry conversion data across the seven clinics
What changed

What they put in place.

Inquiry pipeline with SLA timers

Configurable stages from Enquired through to Attended, with owners assigned at capture and escalation on breach.

Attendance capture matched to staff type

Biometric and web check-in retained for fixed reception staff; mobile GPS with selfie verification and geo-fencing for home-visit and multi-site staff.

Attendance feeding payroll on one core

Late marks and absences flowing into the payroll run directly, eliminating the monthly export-and-upload step entirely.

Attendance-to-payroll reporting

Each employee able to see the reason behind their deduction, which addressed the dispute queue at source.

Multi-channel Support Desk

WhatsApp, email, call and web queries becoming tracked tickets with SLAs, carrying the patient's inquiry and billing history.

Cross-clinic comparison

Inquiry conversion, staffing cost and absenteeism visible side by side per clinic for the first time.

Results

Modelled outcomes.

Each figure is stated with its caveat rather than presented as a headline.

2 days

saved per payroll run

The export-reformat-upload cycle between two vendors disappeared rather than being optimised.

~85%

reduction in month-end deduction disputes

Attributed primarily to deduction transparency rather than to changed attendance behaviour.

31% faster

median inquiry first-response time

SLA timers plus assignment at capture.

1 clinic

identified as understaffed, not underperforming

The clinic with the worst inquiry conversion also had the highest absenteeism. A correlation invisible while the two datasets sat with different vendors.

Attendance feeding payroll automatically removed an entire two-day reconciliation cycle every month. That alone paid for the platform. What we did not expect was finding out that our worst-converting clinic was actually our most understaffed one: those were two separate spreadsheets before, so nobody had ever put them next to each other.
Sneha Bhatt
Head of HR, MediCore Clinics

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