Throughput

Average days to shipment
6.4 d
+0.2 dvs prior
Target: 6.0 d
Median days to shipment
5.6 d
Target: 6.0 d
P90 days to shipment
11.3 d
Target: 6.0 d
Conversion to shipped
69.1%
−7.5 ptsvs prior
Target: 87.0%
Referrals shipped
598
−30vs prior
Currently stalled
207

Time to ship distribution

Referral received to first shipment

Distribution of days from referral to shipment.

Half of all referrals ship within 5.6 days, but the slowest ten percent take 11.3 days or more. The tail, not the average, is what patients feel.

Median time to ship over time

Weekly median, in days

Weekly median days to ship.

A rising median with flat volume usually means a single stage lost capacity rather than demand growing.

Stage-by-stage bottleneck analysis

7 rows
Received866951.7
Benefits Verified771461.0611.0%
PA Submitted362633.4953.0%
PA Approved662431.58-82.9%
Patient Onboarded61930.556.5%
Rx Verified616180.490.5%
Shipped598002.9%
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PA Submitted holds referrals the longest at 3.49 days on average. That is the constraint to relieve first.

Slowest payers to ship

Average days from referral to shipment

Average days to ship by payer.

Payer turnaround is the largest single driver of pipeline time, and it is negotiable.

Aging of open referrals

Everything still in the pipeline

  • 0-2 days32
  • 3-5 days16
  • 6-10 days25
  • 11-20 days20
  • 21+ days175

Anything past 10 days needs a named owner today; that is the population that turns into a complaint.