Your scheduling system is losing $170K per provider
Most practices have not implemented the access work that recovers the revenue a no-show rate quietly removes, and the number per provider is larger than the intuition suggests.
The first issue. It works through what a no-show rate costs a single primary care provider once you count the downstream revenue, the staff overtime and the patient leakage rather than only the missed visit, and then through the access changes that recover it.
Figures on no-show reduction and fill rate improvement in this issue are illustrative ranges from published vendor and operational literature, not a claim about any specific deployment.
Read the full issue. This one went out to the list on March 17, 2026. The complete text, with the figures and the sources, is here: read it in full.
One operational argument a week
The Operations Edge lands each Monday: a hook, one thing to use before lunch, and the full argument here in the archive. No vendor sponsorship, ever.
The instruments behind the writing
Every framework in the series is published as a working file: registers, protocols, audit rubrics and unit-economics models, sized to be used rather than admired.
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Author: Neel Chauhan, MD MBA, physician-executive and founder of the Healthcare AI Institute. Last reviewed against the standard on 2026-08-05.
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