4sight Health May 8, 2024
Healthcare has more industry jargon than most. One of my least favorite terms is “patient leakage.” That occurs when a patient squirts out of the grip of a hospital, health system or medical practice and into the waiting arms of an unaffiliated provider for care.
Hospitals, health systems and medical practices say leakage fragments care and deprives that patient of the benefits of coordinated care. That’s not the real reason they don’t like it. They don’t like it because it deprives them of the revenue they think was owed them.
You didn’t think hospitals, health systems and medical practices collect referral data and track physician referral patterns for clinical reasons, did you? Seriously? Providers spend huge amounts of time, money,...
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