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$17K
- Standard$34K
- Advanced$69K
A typical configuration lands near $81,000 over 21–30 weeks.
Configure your patient portal
Work through the steps below — scope, features, compliance and integrations — and you get an 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 | $17K | Narrowest useful release — one workflow, one user type, launched fast. |
| Standard | $34K | The common case: multiple roles, reporting, and the integrations most buyers expect. |
| Advanced | $69K | Multi-site or enterprise scope, deeper interoperability and heavier non-functional requirements. |
Baselines are before feature adders, compliance programmes, integrations and the platform and design multipliers. Every configuration this calculator can produce falls inside $15K–$294K — the floor is the cheapest tier at the cheapest multipliers with nothing added, the ceiling is the top tier with every option selected at the dearest ones. Both ends are computed from the price table above, not written by hand. A typical mid-market configuration lands near $81,000. 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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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.