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Why EHR-Based Referral Management Falls Short for Specialty Care

What it takes to make referrals a first-class workflow

Joe Zboch

The Most Expensive Google Search in Your Referral Workflow

Most COOs can tell you referral triage takes too long. Few can tell you why.

Joe Zboch

50% of Referrals Are Never Completed. Here's Where Referral Management Workflows Break Down.

A referral doesn't fail at one point. It degrades across a chain, and each broken link makes the next one worse.

Joe Zboch

Growing Pains: 4 Lessons on Scaling Orthopedics in a Hyper-Competitive Market

We sat down with Wayne Fraleigh, CEO of the Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies (OCR), to discuss how his group is navigating two very different worlds. They manage a captive market in Northern Colorado alongside a hyper-competitive market in North Denver

Joe Zboch

Workers' Comp Growth: 7 Tips to Become your Market's Go-To Provider

Workers' comp can be a high-margin, high-volume business. The challenge, as we discussed, is that it's often buried in administrative sludge that kills efficiency and frustrates your team.

Joe Zboch

How Proliance Built a System to Scale Value-Based Care Referrals Across 8 Aggregator Partners

Healthcare organizations are chasing direct-to-employer contracts. The pitch is compelling: transparent pricing, no authorization headaches, high-value surgical cases. But for most orthopedic practices, the direct employer relationship remains aspirational.

Joe Zboch

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¹ Hatch Time Study

² Consultants' and referrers' perceived barriers to closing the cross-institutional referral loop, Tegria

³ The Harris Poll

+1 (888) 220 4781

contact@hatchcare.com

1 Burton Hills Blvd Suite 300 Nashville, TN 37215

Hatch Copyright © 2026

¹ Hatch Time Study

² Consultants' and referrers' perceived barriers to closing the cross-institutional referral loop, Tegria

³ The Harris Poll

+1 (888) 220 4781

contact@hatchcare.com

1 Burton Hills Blvd Suite 300 Nashville, TN 37215

Hatch Copyright © 2026

¹ Hatch Time Study

² Consultants' and referrers' perceived barriers to closing the cross-institutional referral loop, Tegria

³ The Harris Poll