Referral Overview + Video

This report looks at shared patients that meet the characteristics defined in your referral codeset. In other words, the report just looks for shared patients who received the treatments or interventions you care about.

By Report (Referrals Market)

• This report facilitates Carevoyance's referral education workflow, illustrating the referral market for physicians matching the two sets of criteria, listed below. The top-level physicians in this report (without ➥) are the referrers who share patients with physicians (➥) who treat relevant patients.
• There are up to three sections in this report: loyalists, splitters, and opportunities.
• Use this report to dig deeper into the targeted physician's current referral market as well as the potential referral market. Many specialists are dependent on other types of physicians to refer patients for additional care. Primary Care Physicians, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and other front-line physicians often help patients decide which physician to visit for specialty or follow-on care. Specialists foster relationships with these referral partners to create a source of new patients, which impact their practice's well-being and revenues.

Loyalists

• Loyalists are physicians who share 50% or more of their relevant patients with the focal physician, as compared to other physicians matching Procedures of Interest: Hip & Knee replacements criteria.
• The table is set up into columns of the type of medicine, the physician's name, affiliated hospital, total patients shared, total patients shared with the targeted physician, other specialists, shared patients with others, and the percent shared.
• A physician may not realize the extent of loyalty within their referral network. Either they will want to acknowledge their more loyal referral partners or work to strengthen and solidify other relationships where they do not receive a majority of the physicians referred business.

Splitters

• Splitters are physicians who share 0-49% of their relevant patients with the focal physician.
• The table is set up into columns of the type of medicine, the physician's name, affiliated hospital, total patients shared, total patients shared with the targeted physician, other specialists, shared patients with others, and the percent shared.
• The report also focuses on a defined set of specialties. Specialists routinely share patients with Radiologists or Anesthesiologists, which is not typically helpful in understanding a physician’s referral networks. However, a more important or influential referral partner would be the types of physicians the patient sees prior to being referred or sent to the targeted physician.

Opportunities

• Opportunities are physicians who do not currently share any patients to the focal physician, but do share patients with other physicians matching Arthroscopies - knee, shoulder, shoulder criteria.
• The table is set up into columns of the type of medicine, the physician's name, affiliated hospital, total patients shared, total patients shared with the targeted physician, other specialists, shared patients with others, and the percent shared.
• Opportunities represent physicians who have never shared a patient with the targeted physician. Perhaps that opportunity is simply not familiar with the targeted physician and the types of services they deliver. Opportunities may benefit from outreach, education, or other connection points to set up new referral channels.