Benefits of referral management
Reduce leakage, accelerate access, and strengthen relationships to keep patients in your network and grow referrals.
Centralized Referral Dashboard
SmartMATCH Decision Support
Patient Journey Tracking
Automated Feedback Loop
Message & Exchange Files with Providers
Send messages to providers and exchange patient files (x-rays, labs, dicoms) in real-time, regardless of the format or size.
Task Management
Assign tasks to yourself, others, or a department and receive notifications when tasks are due, overdue, or completed.
Alert Notifications
Audit Log
Full accountability for every patient, every referral, and every change made in the referral system.
Why you should improve your referral process
46% of the time, patients do not receive the care they need and destination providers do not realize the revenue they could have.
The revenue impact of leakage can be significant, an average of 55-65% is lost annually costing a health system up to $1.54M per employed PCP.
20% of malpractice claims involve missed or delayed diagnoses due to deficits in hand-offs between providers.
63% of referring physicians are dissatisfied with the lack of timely progress updates post referral.
Referral Management FAQ
ReferralMD makes it easy to increase your referral volume by simplifying the referral process for providers, expanding your referral network, and improving visibility into referral performance.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Streamline referral intake from any source—fax, email, EHR, or online forms—making it easier for providers to refer to you
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Promote your services within our provider directory and referral workflows
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Respond faster with automated triage and scheduling tools, making referring providers more likely to send patients your way
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Build strong relationships by providing referring providers with real-time status updates and outcomes
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Leverage analytics to identify top referral sources and areas for growth
By removing friction from the referral process and offering a seamless experience, ReferralMD helps your organization attract and retain more referrals.
ReferralMD improves the patient experience by making the referral process faster, more transparent, and easier to navigate—reducing delays, confusion, and missed appointments.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Get patients scheduled faster with automated routing and follow-ups
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Keep patients informed through automated appointment reminders and status updates
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Offer digital intake forms, making it easier to complete paperwork on their own time
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Reduce duplicate requests and delays, ensuring patients aren’t stuck in limbo
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Minimize phone tag and manual coordination by centralizing communication
By creating a seamless, modern referral experience, ReferralMD helps patients feel supported, engaged, and confident in their care journey from start to finish.
Yes. Event-based alerts notify the right staff when key actions or exceptions occur (e.g., missing documents, denials, or completed scheduling), all driven by configurable rules.
Increasing your referral conversion rate starts with streamlining communication, reducing referral leakage, and improving follow-up speed. ReferralMD helps you do exactly that by automating referral workflows, ensuring referrals are routed to the right provider the first time, and tracking every referral step in real time.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Automate referral intake from fax, email, and EHR systems
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Reduce no-shows with smart reminders and appointment tracking
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Eliminate lost referrals through centralized referral management
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Gain insights from referral analytics to optimize performance
These features help close the loop faster, improve patient follow-through, and increase your referral-to-appointment conversion rate.
SmartMatch allows users to find the right provider for the patient based on specialty, accepted insurance, affiliation, average wait time, distance from the patient, internal ranking, and other metrics. Providers are sorted based on their overall scores with the best-matched provider at the top of the list.
ReferralMD can automatically select the best-matched receiving provider, complete the referral form, attach the necessary medical records, and send the referral—without manual effort.
Integrates with the tools you already use
ReferralMD integrates with most electronic health records (EHR) systems, practice management systems (PMS), and radiology information systems (RIS) using APIs, HL7, FHIR, or Direct, and we also seamlessly connect with other HIPAA-compliant third-party systems and business intelligence tools.
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