Microsoft's own documentation says it plainly: it is not possible to verify the identity of anonymous users before, during, or after a Teams meeting.
If your practice runs virtual visits, read that line twice.
Teams Virtual Appointments are built so a patient can tap a link in a text message and join from a browser — no account, no password, no app to install. That's exactly why patients actually show up. It also means the only thing standing between your 2:15 appointment and a stranger is the lobby and whatever name somebody typed into the box.
Here's the part most practices miss: the lobby setting your IT admin picked is a default, not a rule. Whoever schedules the visit can change it in Meeting Options for that one appointment. Set it so everyone bypasses the lobby and the link becomes the room — forwarded, screenshotted, or sitting in a text thread on a phone that got left at Publix.
Enforcing it so nobody can loosen it takes a meeting template or a sensitivity label, which means Teams Premium. Most of the practices I talk to never knew the option was there.
Five minutes in the Teams admin center tells you where yours stands. Worth doing before a patient is the one who tells you.
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