Patient registration form

Everything a new patient has to write down before their first appointment — collected once, before the waiting room.

Free, and no account needed to start. Send the link however you normally would: text, email, or a group chat. People fill it in on their phones. Sort the answers, search them, download them as a spreadsheet. 100 replies a month on the free plan.

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The form people fill in, and the list you get back

This is the real form, not a screenshot of one, and it works. Below it is what you see as the answers come in.

All 28 questions

Patient's full name (required)
Name you prefer to be called
Pronouns
Date of birth (required)
Phone number (required)
Email address
Home address (required)
How may we contact you about appointments and results? (required)
Emergency contact — name and relationship (required)
Emergency contact — phone number (required)
If the patient is under 18, name of the responsible adult
Will you be using insurance? (required)
Insurance company
Member ID
Group number
Policyholder's name and date of birth, if not you
Preferred pharmacy — name and location
Who referred you, if anyone?
Reason for your visit (required)
Do you have any of these?
Medications you take regularly
Allergies, including to medications and latex
I consent to examination and treatment by this practice (required)
I understand I am responsible for charges not covered by my insurance (required)
I have been given the practice's privacy notice and had the chance to ask questions (required)
The information above is accurate and I will tell the practice if it changes (required)
Signature (required)
Date (required)

You can reword any of these, or add your own, after you create it.

An example of what you see when answers come in, with three replies

20 Aug, 08:30	Rosa Iglesias	Rosie	she/her	2013-02-08	(614) 555-0104	carmen.i@example.com	40 Bexley Park, Columbus OH 43209	Phone call, Text message, Email	Carmen Iglesias, mother	(614) 555-0104	Carmen Iglesias, mother	Yes	UnitedHealthcare	982110477	551209	Carmen Iglesias, 1985-06-30	Walgreens, Main St	School nurse	Persistent cough since June.	Asthma or lung condition	Salbutamol inhaler as needed	Latex	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2026-08-20
19 Aug, 11:58	Emmanuel Boateng	Manny	he/him	1961-09-27	(740) 555-0119		9 Alder Court, Delaware OH 43015	Phone call, Voicemail, Post	Grace Boateng, daughter	(740) 555-0171		Yes	Medicare + AARP supplement	1EG4TE5MK72			CVS, Sandusky St		Annual review and blood pressure check.	High blood pressure, Diabetes	Metformin 1000mg twice daily, amlodipine 5mg	None known	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2026-08-19
19 Aug, 06:44	Delphine Aubert	Del	she/her	1987-04-11	(614) 555-0136	d.aubert@example.com	22 Linden Row, Columbus OH 43201	Text message, Email	Marc Aubert, husband	(614) 555-0158		Yes	Anthem BCBS	XJP884120677	007742		Kroger, N High St	Dr Whitmore	Ongoing wrist pain, six weeks, worse typing.	None of these	None	Penicillin — rash	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2026-08-19

Scroll sideways for the rest of the 28 answers, and press any heading to sort by it. In your own form you can search the answers as well, and download them as a spreadsheet at any time.

Registration is not history, and mixing them makes both worse

A registration form establishes who the patient is, how to reach them, who pays and what they have consented to. A history form asks what is wrong with them. Practices that merge the two end up with a six-page document that new patients abandon halfway.

This template stays on the registration side and asks only enough clinical detail — conditions, medications, allergies — to be safe before the clinician takes a proper history.

Insurance fields are the ones that get transcribed wrong

Member ID and group number handwritten on a clipboard, then typed into a practice management system by somebody reading upside down, is where most claim rejections begin. Typed answers remove an entire category of error.

Asking about the policyholder separately catches the common case of a patient covered under a spouse's or parent's policy, which is the second-commonest reason a claim comes back.

How to contact them, and how not to

Results and appointment reminders reach patients on channels other people can see. Offering "please do not leave a message" alongside the usual options costs nothing and prevents the kind of mistake a practice hears about only once.

Three consents, kept separate

Consent to treat, financial responsibility, and receipt of the privacy notice are three different things. A single signature at the bottom of a page records that a form was signed; three explicit lines record what was agreed.

Sent ahead, this is fifteen minutes of the waiting room back

The standard new-patient experience is arriving fifteen minutes early to complete paperwork on a clipboard. Sending the same form as a link with the appointment confirmation gives that time back to the patient and gives the front desk a typed, legible record before the patient arrives.

If your practice already has its own registration form — most do, and most have been approved by somebody — upload that PDF instead. The questions are read off the document, so the wording, order and any state-required language stay exactly as they are.

What this is not

This is a starting point, not legal advice, and this service is not offered as a HIPAA-covered platform — there is no business associate agreement. A practice handling protected health information under HIPAA should check its obligations before choosing any tool, including this one. What is done with data is set out in full on the security page.

Questions people ask

What should a patient registration form include?

The patient's name, preferred name, date of birth and address, safe ways to be contacted, an emergency contact, a responsible adult for minors, insurance details including member ID, group number and policyholder, preferred pharmacy, who referred them, the reason for the visit, a short list of conditions, medications and allergies, and separate consents to treatment, financial responsibility and receipt of the privacy notice.

What is the difference between patient registration and a health history form?

Registration establishes identity, contact details, who pays and what has been consented to. History asks what is wrong. Combining them produces a form long enough that new patients give up partway, so most practices keep them separate and send both.

Can new patient forms be completed online before the appointment?

Yes, and most practices now do it that way. It gives the patient back the fifteen minutes they would otherwise spend in the waiting room and gives the front desk typed, legible insurance details before the visit, which is where most transcription errors happen.

Why ask for the policyholder separately?

Because a large share of patients are covered under a spouse's or parent's policy, and a claim submitted with the patient named as policyholder comes back. It is one extra field and it removes one of the two commonest reasons for rejection.

Is this patient registration form free?

Yes. Download the PDF with no account and no email address, or send the online version with the appointment confirmation.

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