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What are your lapsed screening patients worth?
Put your own numbers in and see the revenue sitting in the women who did not come back for their annual mammogram.
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Free calculators for breast imaging schedulers
Two working calculators for the arithmetic that decides a screening center's year: recovered recall revenue and honest unit capacity.
Both calculators run in your browser, ask for numbers you already have, and store nothing. They exist because the two arguments that come up in every independent center are the same ones. First, is chasing lapsed screening patients worth a scheduler's hours. Second, how many exams the template can hold before the day breaks. Guessing at either one costs real money.
Start with your own figures rather than the defaults. Your overdue share is sitting in the RIS if anyone will pull it, your screening and diagnostic fees are on your fee schedule, and your no show rate is countable from four weeks of arrivals. Ten minutes with actual numbers beats a year of assuming the recall list is not worth working.
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How many screening slots does your unit really hold?
Build the template from the machine and the technologist rather than from hope, and see what no shows quietly take back.
Working document
The annual recall cycle checklist for screening centers
Everything a scheduler has to do to turn a twelve month due list into kept screening appointments, in the order it actually happens.
Why both calculators are open with no sign up
A practice manager should not have to trade her email address to find out what the overdue mammogram list is worth. Both calculators run in the browser, neither one stores a figure you type, and neither asks who you are. The arithmetic inside them is the arithmetic already being done by hand in independent centers: a RIS export on the screen, a calculator app open beside it, somebody working out how many women slid past their due month while the schedule looked busy enough.
On their own they settle the two arguments that decide a screening year. The recall revenue figure tells you whether working the twelve month due list is worth a scheduler's hours or whether you are chasing pennies at $165 a mammogram. The capacity figure tells you whether one mammography unit, at your real exam time and turnover, can absorb the women you are about to invite back. Run them in that order, write both numbers on one line, and you have the whole case for or against a recall program without ever speaking to us.
Once you have both numbers on one line
Recovered recall revenue and honest slot capacity are the two figures a screening center plans its year around. When the first one is large and the second is smaller than the demand it implies, that gap is the thing worth talking through. A demo runs on your own overdue cohort and your own fee schedule, not on a sample data set.