Websites for medical practices: ready for Section 504, with booking that works for every patient
If your practice takes Medicare or Medicaid, your website, booking and forms have a deadline. We rebuild physician, therapy and specialist practice sites so every patient can find you, book and fill in forms, with a dated test record to show for it.
What’s at stake for medical practices
- The Section 504 deadline
- Providers that receive federal financial assistance must make their websites and apps meet WCAG 2.1 AA from 11 May 2027 with 15 or more employees, and from 10 May 2028 with fewer. HHS treats Medicare Part B as federal financial assistance.12
- Vendor booking and portals count
- The rule covers what you provide to patients through contracts and licences, so a vendor's booking page or portal has to meet the standard too.1
What we build instead
- Booking and intake forms that work with a keyboard and a screen reader, in place of PDFs.
- A page for each location and provider, with hours, insurance accepted and structured data.
- An accessibility statement and a dated record of every test, ready for your administrator.
A working example: Harbor Dental
A two-location family practice with online booking, clear treatment prices and new-patient forms. The business is fictional; the site, its speed and its accessibility are real.
- Mobile
- 95
- Accessibility
- 100
- JavaScript
- 11.4 KB
- Pages
- 30
Lighthouse on a phone, recorded on October 28, 2026.
Open Harbor Dental
Fixed prices, hosting included
Every quote is fixed after the free scan. Hosting on Cloudflare’s free tier costs nothing.
Launch
Up to 10 pages. Clinics, studios, practices.
from $2,900
Practice
Up to 40 pages, forms, booking, multi-location.
from $6,500
Catalogue
Hundreds to thousands of product or listing pages.
from $12,000
Care
Optional, after launch: monitoring, monthly edits and a person on call.
$149 a month
Guides for medical practices
- Does the Section 504 website rule apply to my practice?
If you take Medicare or Medicaid, probably yes. How to tell, how to count employees, and which deadline is yours: May 2027 or May 2028.
- A Section 504 website checklist for practice managers
Seven steps to get a practice website, booking and forms ready for the Section 504 deadline, with a timeline back from 11 May 2027.
- What getting a practice website ready for Section 504 costs, and how long it takes
Fix or rebuild, what decides the price, what the market charges, and a realistic timeline back from the May 2027 deadline.
Or read the questions owners ask us.
Sources
- 1.45 CFR 84.84, as amended 11 May 2026 (HHS Section 504 rule)
- 2.HHS, Section 1557 final rule fact sheet: notice that Medicare Part B is federal financial assistance
- 3.Duane Morris, HHS extends Section 504 web and mobile app accessibility deadlines, May 2026
- 4.UsableNet, 2025 Year-End Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report