Patient portal cost calculator
A patient portal covering records access and secure messaging starts at $60,000–$105,000. Add self-scheduling, digital intake, online bill pay and proxy accounts and most portals land at $120,000–$240,000, with enterprise multi-entity portals reaching $430,000. Configure yours below.
- 6 separately priced features
- Compliance costed as line items
- Itemised, not a single guess
- ±15–20% confidence range
At a glance
Baselines before features, compliance and multipliers.
- MVP$60K
- Standard$120K
- Advanced$240K
A typical configuration lands near $201,000 over 15–21 weeks.
Configure your patient portal
Work through the steps below — scope, features, compliance and integrations — and you get an itemised estimate with a range, a midpoint and a delivery window.
What each scope tier includes
Every calculator starts from one of three baselines. This is what separates them.
| Scope | Baseline | Typical shape |
|---|---|---|
| MVP | $60K | Narrowest useful release — one workflow, one user type, launched fast. |
| Standard | $120K | The common case: multiple roles, reporting, and the integrations most buyers expect. |
| Advanced | $240K | Multi-site or enterprise scope, deeper interoperability and heavier non-functional requirements. |
Baselines are before feature adders, compliance programmes, integrations and the platform, design and team-location multipliers. The headline range for this calculator is $60K–$288K. See how the numbers are built.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a custom patient portal cost?
A records-and-messaging portal costs $60,000–$105,000. A full self-service portal with scheduling, intake and bill pay costs $120,000–$240,000. Multi-entity portals with SSO, proxy access and several EHR back ends run $240,000–$430,000.
Why build a portal when our EHR already has one?
Most teams build when the bundled portal blocks a revenue workflow — online scheduling, digital intake or payment plans. If that is the case, a targeted portal on top of your EHR via FHIR costs $60,000–$150,000 plus $25,000 for the integration, which is far cheaper than replacing the EHR. If the bundled portal works, keep it.
What does proxy or caregiver access cost to add?
About $9,000. The engineering is modest but the consent and adolescent-privacy rules are not: expect $4,000–$8,000 more in legal and configuration work to handle state-by-state minor consent rules and revocation flows correctly.
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Need a number you can put in a board deck?
A fixed-scope quote comes out of a 4-week Discovery sprint, which starts at $45,000 and ends with an architecture, a backlog and a firm price.